GOP: "We're rock bottom"

I caught a few seconds of one Republican on CNN commenting on the election and wow, he sounded so grumpy. After the last eight years, I can't help but enjoy listening to the GOP in such a state.

In a sign of how far the party has fallen, the Republicans set up a hotline and website yesterday appealing for suggestions from the public on how to rebuild.

It is a long way from the ambition of Karl Rove, George Bush's strategy adviser, four years ago to build a party that would dominate US politics for a generation.

A Republican congressman from Michigan, Thaddeus McCotter, told the Washington Times: "We're rock bottom. We are now free to start thinking again, acting again, and doing the right thing by what our constituents and our country need."

Ed Rogers, a White House staffer under Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, in an article for the Washington Post, wrote: "Let the autopsy begin ... We didn't just lose, we got beat ... Republicans must learn from their mistakes and come back with a clear purpose and a clear definition of what being a Republican means."

Americans are generally forward thinking and positive so until the GOP can move beyond fear, hatred and backwards ideas, they're going to stuck. Since the radical right took over the party, making any changes and moving back to the middle will not easy fast or easy.