Good bye Republicans,
Good bye Republicans,
Good bye Republicans,
We're glad to see you go.

Sleep tight Republicans,
Sleep tight Republicans,
Sleep tight Republicans,
We're glad to see you go!

Etc.

Katon Dawson

As long as we refer to him as Kate, he'll be the laughingstock he should be;>

Hey, what’s up?

As I said to my husband after seeing the clip of Dawson, I never knew that, as a lifelong Democrat, that my party's goals were to create big government and to reduce freedom.

Who the hell who isn't a right-winger could possibly be convinced of such absurd rhetoric?

Communication 101: Your goal is to persuade people. You have to understand how people think to be able to do so.

Has this guy forgotten the election already? After the GOP convention, McCain was ahead and there were lots of people with lots of suggestions about how Obama needed to shake up his campaign. But Obama stayed calm and stuck to his strategy. (This contrasts with his opponent, who had a new staff, message, and strategy every couple of weeks.) You have to have nerves of steel to stick with Plan A even when you'e falling behind.

Katon Dawson believes Republicans are always right and Democrats on top of always being wrong, are always out to hurt America because we hate it. He believes that only Republicans are patriotic Americans. That is why he takes this tone. Democrats are the enemy like the Axis powers, Iraq, and communists were the enemy. They need to be defeated and any conciliation is a sign of weakness of the Neville Chamberlain sort. I am sure that he doesn't see what he is doing as detrimental to America and he doesn't see a Democratic president and Congress as ever being able to succeed and that their success might actually help the country. He sees advocating the enemy's failure and doing and saying anything to make them fail as the necessary actions of Republicans - the "true patriots" and the only people capable of running the country.

To the still sane in this country, it looks like his governing philosophy is creative destruction with a bit of scorched earth thrown in.

It's easy to be gracious when you've already achieved your goals.

Why, then, were the Republicans so astonishingly churlish when they controlled all the levers of power?

This is exactly the kind of talk and attitude that sent Americans into the arms of the Democratic party by the millions. Only a small minority thinks this is the way to win elections and to govern. That's why their party lost and will stay lost for a long, long time. I hope this dude wins the chairmanship!

Nah, that vision of the RNC is more like the good ol' boys sitting around Twelve Oaks in Cobb county.

Katon Dawson IS the Republican Party. This is why their trip isn't going to be into the wilderness, its going to be into the abyss. They don't know any other way than to attack. They attack when they are in the minority but a lot of people aren't pointing out that they also attack when they are in the majority. This isn't some stance they are adopting just because they got tossed out on their ass. Its all they know.

See its not that Katon Dawson wasn't paying attention to the election or doesn't realize that the people don't want this kind of bullshit anymore. I am sure he and other Rethugs know that but when you have only one bullet in your gun thats really the only one you can shoot. The problem is their party has revealed themselves not to be committed to their own bogus policy platform so they can no longer point the finger at Dems as big spenders and their Reagan era "tax cuts cure all ills" has been exposed by this current economic crisis. As an aside its funny to me that no Dems ever point out that Reagan came into office when the top tax rate was above 70%, you have a lot of leeway to cut them at that point I would think. But I digress.

The more they expose themselves as one trick ponys like Dawson here and Blackwell did on Townhall all they are doing is sending their credibility level to new lows. But don't expect it to stop or change. For years that kind of politics worked so they never attempted to change or adapt. Now there is probably just too much ground to make up AND policy doctrine is you don't change your stance on issues even if they become unrealistic so they are phucked.

To use a baseball analogy they are like the character Cerrano from the movie "Major League". He could knock the cover off the ball if you threw him a fastball but he never learned to hit a curve. And after he was exposed the pitchers just threw him all curve balls and he kept striking out trying to swing for the fences. With all of the problems facing our nation and the kind of new politics Obama presents to them the GOP has curveballs coming to them at all angles. But like hard headed numbskulls they will keep looking for the fastball, swinging for the fences and ultimately striking out.

It sounds as if Dawson is advocating the political equivalent of civil war. Neo-confederates indeed!

Another big difference between the DNC chairman and the would-be RNC chairman: Kaine has actually gone out and persuaded non-Democrats to elect him to office. Dawson has not.

The GOP is stuck in its Gingrich time warp, and hostage to constituencies -- theocrats, xenophobes, militarists, anti-abortion and pro-gun absolutists -- that really do think people who don't see things their way are anti-American. The only way the party can keep these people on board is by aggressively alienating the rest of the country, which is now a growing majority.

The Republicans have consigned themselves to long-term minority status, which is not healthy in a two-party system.

"It's easy to be gracious when you've already achieved your goals."

A fact the GOP never obviously grasped, since they were just as sullen and vicious in victory as are now in defeat.

Up until running for the RNC chair, South Carolina Republican Chairman Katon Dawson... ELEVEN YEARS member in a WHITES ONLY KKKountry KKKlub.

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, who would be the party’s first black chairman could have a job checking your coat there... because, being a negro, he wouldn't have a membership to Dawson's WHITES ONLY KKKountry KKKlub.

"It's easy to be gracious when you've already achieved your goals."

A fact the GOP never obviously grasped, since they were just as sullen and vicious in victory as are now in defeat.

I agree. They had the White House, both houses of Congress, and yet they always acted like they were UNDER SIEGE.

To be our President's "worst nightmare" stated even in advance of any particular scandal, etc. is to be an enemy of America. Isn't that ironic?

So, without trying to sound too much like a Republican...

The country's in trouble.
It's fighting a war on two fronts.
The economy's in the tank.

And the leader of the opposition party thinks the most important job for elected officials is to get in the way of the efforts of the President and the democratically elected House & Senate majority to sort the problems out?

I'd call that treason, personally.

It is time for Democrats in Congress to remind the Republicans about all the times the GOP called any person who did not agree to immediately hand Bush a black check for his "war on terror" as traitors, anti-American, Muslim appeasers, and sometimes even worse...

If all the Republicans have is to obstruct the "recovery plan" then it is been proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Republicans are in fact anti-American.

Shorter Katon Dawson: "Whatever it is, I'm against it!"

It was funnier when Groucho said it.

And what sgwhite said: he IS the GOP nowadays.