GOPers Promise To "ROMP" In This Fall's House Races

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By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld

Oh, man -- we knew the Repubs were in trouble in this fall's Congressional races, but this is just comical.

A leading GOPer in the House, whip Roy Blunt, sent out a release today touting a new fundraising effort on behalf of Republican candidates. The program has this rather optimistic title:

Regain Our Majority Program (ROMP) II

But in the same release, it also contains a list of all the GOP House candidates that will benefit from this program designed to regain the GOP's majority.

ROMP will benefit the following Members and candidates:

Shelley Moore Capito (WV-2)

Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-21)

Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25)

Phil English (PA-3)

Tom Feeney (FL-24)

Chris Hackett (PA-10)

Pete Olson (TX-22)

Steve Stivers (OH-15)

Get this -- only two of the names on this list are challengers running to unseat House Dems -- Hackett and Olsen. The rest are incumbents, with the exception of Stivers, who's running for an open GOP-held seat.

But to regain their majority the GOP would need to knock off 19 House Dems. So this program to win back the majority is approximately 17 candidates short of what they need to accomplish its stated goal!

By contrast, the DCCC's Red to Blue program lists 20 Dem candidates challenging Republican House incumbents -- ten times the number of the GOP's vaunted "ROMP" program.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmem...p_in_this_1.php

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Who doesn't love a good Romp now and again?

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Who doesn't love a good Romp now and again?

Or romping with your Congressman in a bathroom stall.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Who doesn't love a good Romp now and again?

Or romping with your Congressman in a bathroom stall.

Spitzer-style

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Maybe they can join Barney Frank.

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Who doesn't love a good Romp now and again?

Or romping with your Congressman in a bathroom stall.

interesting avatar, steven.

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Who doesn't love a good Romp now and again?

Or romping with your Congressman in a bathroom stall.

interesting avatar, steven.

In animation, we call that great secondary action.