Nasty Little Man

Is the GOP trying to lose?

Seriously, either the Republi-cons are trying to lose the election or they want to measure just how incompetent the Democrats are at winning elections:

• Pressure grows over Foley case for GOP
• U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government
• Records show Tenet briefed Rice on al-Qaeda threat
  

Update, 11:13pm:
That's funny. Right after I posted that, I read this from David Goldstein at Huffington Post:

this is exactly the wrong time for "Leader" Frist to tell the American people that the greatest military power in the history of the world cannot defeat the ragged extremists who harbored our al-Qaeda attackers.

Unless, of course, your goal is to convince the American people that the Republican Party is simply incapable of leading: incapable of winning the war in Iraq or in Afghanistan, incapable of fighting the war on terror... even incapable of what should be the relatively routine task of protecting House pages from being groped by a congressman in a Capitol Hill restroom.

It is hard to believe that this is in fact the Republican leadership's goal... that the people who have "led" our nation for the past six years really want to lose the November election. But the alternative explanation is even more disturbing.

Update, 11:19pm:
This is getting stranger and stranger. Right after the last post, I found this article, Why some Republicans want to lose:

The array of former members of Congress and officials from Republican administrations dating to the 1970s are using opinion articles, speeches and interviews to make the surprising -- and, to many of their friends and colleagues, near-heretical -- argument that it would be better for the country if their party lost. Some say they plan to vote Democratic for the first time in their lives. The Republican rebels say the modern Republican Party has so abandoned its conservative beliefs that it deserves to be defeated by the Democrats.

posted by Kinder Gentler Little Man @ 10:09 PM