I have long predicted that George Bush's disastrous policies would destroy the Republican Party. But rather than going out with a bang, the GOP may simply go out with a whimper - or a snore.

GOP funk slows turnout, money

Ten months before Election Day, Republicans are facing a threat that spells serious trouble for GOP candidates from the top of the ticket down to the most obscure races. The problem is the funk of the foot soldiers.

So far, the story of the 2008 campaign on the Republican side is what’s not happening.

Ambitious Republican politicians at the state and local levels are not deciding that this is the year to make a bid for higher office.

Republican contributors are not opening their wallets and writing campaign checks.

Writing in Newsweek, Kos urges Democrats to run against Bush's record of dismal failure:

Bush can boast of an unwinnable quagmire in Iraq, a decimated housing market, economic instability and a collapsing dollar, a dysfunctional health-care system, a still-devastated Gulf Coast, a wealth gap of a scope unseen since the Great Depression and a pervasive and disturbing image of America as a hapless, blundering giant, rather than a beacon of freedom and morality in the world.

But Kos wrongly blames Republican anti-government philosophy for these problems:

If They Want A Condemnation We'll Give Them One

Once in a rare while a member of Congress will speak the plain truth without equivocation.

Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/condemnation.php

And when Pete Stark stood up to accuse the president of the United States of having no conscience about the deaths of the thousands of valiant troops he sent on a criminal war mission (for his "amusement" Stark said), while at the same time stealing the medicines out of the mouths of babes, not a word was voiced in protest by the Republicans present in the moment. There was only a mild generalized statement from the chair about avoiding personal references to the president.

And the reason there was not a peep of actual outrage when Stark spoke those indicting words (that they are so howling about now), is that they in knew in what was left of their hearts that it was all shamefully true.

The Corporate Media has sure given a lot of coverage to Norman Hsu, a major donor to Democratic candidates.

So why hasn't the Corporate Media covered Robert Lichfield, founder of the highly controversial World Wide Association Of Specialty Programs and Schools (h/t Josh Marshall)?

A top Utah fund-raiser for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign - who has links to an organization facing a civil lawsuit alleging child abuse - is no longer part of Romney's state finance team.

When Republicans were swept out of power in 2006, they blamed the Mark Foley scandal for their losses and declared an end to Republican scandals.

So how's that working out?

Here's a list of Republicans scandals through August 2007. The Republican "culture of corruption" is worse than ever!

Keep this list handy and send it to any Republicans you know who think their party's scandals are behind them.

Source:
http://senate2008guru.blogspot.com/2007/08/republican-culture-of-corruption-2007.html

January 23, 2007: Republican radio personality Scott Eller Cortelyou of Denver arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to lure a child into a sexual relationship