by Andrew Kirell
6:22 pm, September 10th, 2012
During her syndicated radio program on Monday, conservative host Laura Ingraham had harsh words for the Republican Party and the way Mitt Romney‘s campaign has underperformed despite a flailing economy and high unemployment figures.


Recent polls show President Barack Obama with a
boosted lead following last week’s Democratic National Convention, and
so Ingraham pointed a finger at the GOP and the Romney campaign for
failing to make a stronger case.
“If you can’t beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the
party,” she said. “Shut it down, start new, with new people because this
is a give-me election, or at least it should be.”
Ingraham added that part of the blame lies with political consultants
who get re-hired after each failed presidential bid. She lamented the
“millions and millions of dollars that are paid to these political
consultants election after election. We hire people who have lost
previous campaigns, that run campaigns that have failed, who have
message campaigns where the message fell flat. And they keep getting
rehired. I don’t understand that. I don’t know why those are the people
you hire.”
On a similar note today, fellow conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh warned that an Obama re-election would lead to “the end of the Republican Party.”