Or, why I’m not buying the line that the drawn-out Democratic Primary is good news indeed! for the GOP:

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.

This involves the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole telling state House members that “the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to ’save them’ in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.”

But it also involves Newt’s piece in Human Events, itself interesting enough:

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail,” Gingrich said. “This model has already been tested with disastrous results.”

In 2006, there were six incumbent Republican Senators who had plenty of money, the advantage of incumbency, and traditionally successful consultants.

But the voters in all six states had adopted a simple position: “Not you.” No matter what the GOP Senators attacked their opponents with, the voters shrugged off the attacks and returned to, “Not you.”

The danger for House and Senate Republicans in 2008 is that the voters will say, “Not the Republicans.”

Yes, but.

Look, the “anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright” approach has been so successful for so long for the GOP - can they really shift gears, and run a different kind of campaign? I mean, if I’m a Republican, and it’s been all-Wright for the past two weeks and even with the Limbaugh “stealth” voters Hillary barely squeaks by in Indiana - I’m not real confident that Wright is going to continue to count for much, or for anything, come November. But you know they’re going to bang that gong, regardless of how little sound and fury it generates.