The 2008 Election Aftermath: The National GOP Flails For Answers to the Tuesday Bloodbath

No simple-minded Scapegoats: Arizona's House Rep Jeff Flake "cuts through the crap," and throws the beleaguered U.S. GOP a life raft.

In the wake of John McCain's defeat, and the Tuesday night clobbering of GOP legislative and gubernatorial candidates across the USA, Sarah Palin seems to have been selected by some nitwits as the "scapegoat." From this morning's (London Daily) Mail Online:

'Palin didn't know Africa was a continent': McCain aides begin Republican mud-slinging in wake of defeat

The most savvy and ethical members of what remains of the Republican congressional delegation in Washington know better. Be sure to read Arizona U.S. House Representative Jeff Flake's fine Washington Post analysis, reprinted in today's Standard-Examiner. It's a simple plea to get back to basics:

A way out of the wilderness for the GOP

Food for thought for all Republicans, including those from Utah whom, for the most part, dodged the "Bush backlash bullet" at least this year. Once formerly-connected folks like Hatch, Bennett and Bishop have their offices banished under the Obama administration to Washington linen closets however, the great tide of money which has flowed from our Washington legislators into the Utah party, and to various county parties within Utah will be severely diminished. Don't think for a minute, Utah Republicans, that Tuesday's Obama landslide won't affect Utah politics in the long run.

And an additional note in passing. If Washington GOP legislative leadership doesn't elect fresh new leadership this year, and if it fails to oust the neoCON Faction, I think a strong argument can be made that our beloved GOP party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, is doomed, at least as a national party.

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