Re: Where's the GOP?

Chaz, in a nutshell, here are the Republican reasons for why they are doing what they are doing:

Why on earth should Republicans go on record with actual Healthcare bills? Wouldn't that leave them open to criticism on the merits? Wouldn't the Democrats and the Media literally revel in the real or imagined facts of harm and misery inflicted on the citizens of those States that had passed the Republican Healthcare measures?

As it is now, all the voters know is the evils of the Democrats' plans. Why give the Democrats an ability to tell a story about a corresponding evil of a Republican plan?

Best to stay low, and quiet, and let the enormity of the Democrats' plans for America be the only thought in the minds of the electorate.

Then, in 2010, we can pounce, and run the scoundrels from office.

For myself, I think that if this is the tack the GOP takes, then it will result only in the replacement of existing scoundrels with other scoundrels. Politicians should stand for something and be elected or not on account of that something. To try to slide into office by the back door - by simply not being an "unacceptable" Democrat - is a demeaning and deceptive strategy. Not to mention that such politicians are inherently unable to resist the lure of joining a $1+ trillion dollar spend-a-thon each year.