GOP on the Run

But party leaders are warning privately against taking that strategy too far. "If Diet Coke criticizes Coke, people buy Pepsi, not Diet Coke," said Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee. In an internal Republican Party memo provided to Time, Jan van Lohuizen, a longtime Bush pollster, warns candidates tempted to distance themselves that "President Bush drives our image and will do so until we have real national front-runners for the '08 nomination. If he drops, we all drop." Another Republican strategist describes the problem for g.o.p. candidates this way: "Adding weight to the anchor doesn't help them."

That's about Mehlman's speed, to compare something as serious as policy to something silly as soft drinks.

The GOP would never dream of addressing the problems, correcting the wreck they've made in order to gain voters. Nope. It is nothing but lie and spin, spin, spin.