Republican Brand: "if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf" (LAT)

The party agrees it must change or face catastrophe in November. But that's about all members can agree on.

By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
May 18, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The bad news has come from Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi -- a string of unexpected Republican defeats in congressional elections that have prompted GOP leaders to say, with candor unusual in politics, that the party is facing an outright catastrophe this November.

Increasingly, top Republicans are calling on their party to reinvent itself or risk driving away more voters and donors. The GOP image is so stale, said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), in a memo to colleagues last week, that "if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf" because nobody is buying it.

The difficulty of a swift reinvention was on display last week as the central players in Washington's conservative community gathered for their weekly strategy session, the Wednesday Meeting, held in a conference room of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform organization.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-gop18-2008may18,0,5148271.story?track=rss

We've had 8 years of GOP Gravy Train. And it was already stale in 2000.

Woof.

for a Republican.

They'd take them off the shelf not because "no one is buying it", But because their brand has proven to be systemically toxic to the animal.