WHAT THE GOP IS SAYING ABOUT THE GOP

Conservatives on today's GOP: 
 
David Frum, former special assistant to President George W. Bush Right now, tea party extremism contaminates the whole Republican brand. 
 
 Thomas M Davis,  former congressman (R-VA): “It’s a party that is disunited, in flux, in transition and defeated." 
 
 Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.): “If Eric Cantor and John Boehner can’t answer the questions ‘what are we fighting for’ — that’s not good!” 
 
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-GA)"To my colleagues in the House, on both sides and to my friends in the Senate, we're ruining both institutions,"  
 
Former  New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu “It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process." 
 
Matt Cox, a former executive director of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County GOP "We’re not saying Obama is right. We’re saying what Republicans are doing is wrong." 
 
Former Illinois state Sen. Laura Douglas   “‘If we keep this kind of thing up, we’re going to get creamed next year.’” 
 
Ed Rodgers (R) GOP strategist and columnist: “For some reason the party can’t get budget politics right. There is no consensus among Republicans about what to do or even what we are for so we just look like the Party of ‘no’.” 
  
Gov. Bobby Jindhall (R-LA)"For too long for the Republican governors, we feel like we've outsourced our brand management to the Republicans in D.C.   It's time for us to stop doing that. ..We want folks to know that when we're talking about Republicans, it's not just the dysfunction that's happening in Washington, D.C., it's the results that are happening in our state capitals."  
 
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) “Lemmings with suicide vests... Because jumping to your death is not enough... It’s getting a little old.  You guys ever watch 16 Candles? You guys remember Long Duk Dong at the end? That’s going to be us tomorrow, waking up on the grass, crashed automobile. That’s us.” 
 
 DAN DANNER, of the National Federation of Independent Businesses:"There clearly are people in the Republican Party at the moment for whom the business community and the interests of t...See More