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- BishkekBuddy, on 10/30/2008, -10/+132The Republican Party has been dead for a long time - ever since the neo-cons, with Karl Rove's help, took it over and distorted it into something completely unrecognizable.
- stephenfox, on 10/30/2008, -27/+126This is true. This is brilliant. To read the cause of death and the ramifications, read Chuck Lasker's other writings. Frank Schaeffer put it best in a speech, which I quoted in an article on OpEdNews: REPUBLICANS SUPPORTING OBAMA.
Although I am a staunch and die hard Democrat, having met Eleanor Roosevelt once when I was really young, my grandfather was a staunch and honorable Iowa farmer and Republican and Mason; those were back in the late 50's, with the Marshall Plan still fresh in many minds, leading into the next period, when JFK started the Peace Corps....I can tell you for sure about my grandfather: he would be mortified if he could see the shambles the GOP is in now; he would be disgusted at a guy running for President who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, and he would be voting for Obama, as a majority of people from Iowa will do 50 years later, in 2008! Honor your ancestors, is what I believe.
How did this GOP death occur and above all other questions, why? All due to corporate greed and manipulation, in my humble opinion. When Susan Eisenhower started supporting Obama and then when McCain picked Palin, I knew the GOP had gone mad, or become stupid, or as you put it, had died. You may be more correct with that than any other interpretation, Chuck. Keep up the good work, or I shall say instead "Please keep up the GREAT work, Chuck!" - SheilaNoya, on 10/30/2008, -13/+88There's not much of a future when all you have left are religious fanatics, hate mongers, smear merchants, and uneducated hicks.
The Republicans decided to make these people their "base" and sucked up to them for votes. They preyed on their fears and counted on their gullibility. They've chosen media icons like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others who spread fear and hatred.
The GOP now represents the worst of America. Good riddance.
They can still make a comeback in future years if they clean house and rid themselves of the negativity and the backwards thinking niwits who have destroyed their party. However, if they choose "to stay the course", they will fade into oblivion as the world evolves and leaves them in the dust. - SFJoe, on 10/30/2008, -4/+53It's actually very simple and totally expected. Somehow the GOP began prizing dull and anti-intellectual people since they are "real" Americans. When you start having the slow-witted running things, then things are bound to fall apart. If you want things to run right, you need the best and the brightest - NOT Joe SixPack.
- jericho4119, on 10/30/2008, -16/+62Nice try, but Brooks has the first mover advantage on the "progressive Republican" moniker.
It is a beautiful thing - for a Democrat - to watch the carefully knit Reagan coalition of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives and neo-conservatives splinter under the stress of actually having the responsibility to run the government. Back when "supply-side" was just a theory produced by think-tanks, it was easy for Republicans to be pure, but beginning with the Gingrich revolution and the Contract with America, Republicans have been inching closer and closer to the seat of power; the closer they got, the more those principles seemed less iron-clad and more just suggestions - "good-government" - you might call them.
After this election, John McCain will be forced into the role of sacrificial lamb - even though most of the blame lies on the thin shoulders of George W. Bush. Sarah Palin will retreat into the ever-forgiving arms of the social conservatives - where she will duke it out with Mike Huckabee for supremacy. Mitt Romney will cast off those social conservatives clothes that never seemed to fit right and seek to lead this new Progressive Republican cult. And the libertarians will most likely move over to the Libertarian Party, where they can at long last be themselves without shame.
Of course, none of these parties will be large enough to win nationally. Social conservatives will dominate the states of the former Confederacy; Libertarians will seek to make a home out in the Mountain West; and Progressive Republicans will challenge Democratic strongholds on the East and West Coasts. Depending upon how effective the Obama Administration is will tell you the territory open to the Progressive Republicans, but people's search for a good fight will keep them around and growing, while the others wilt under the weight of their leaden platforms. - inactive, on 10/31/2008, -15/+58Ron Paul and the Campaign For Liberty will be top notch come 2012.
- icantdenythis, on 10/31/2008, -6/+45I think both parties are dead.
Its time for real change. - reposado, on 10/31/2008, -5/+42A one party America instead of two is bad for all of us.
Republicans will shine again once they find a candidate that is actually fiscally conservative(unlike Bush) and socially moderate(unlike Palin). After Bush republicans deserve a big slap in the face.
Oh I pray for the day when there is a candidate that believes in government living within their means, low taxes, small government, little foreign intervention, state rights, and socially just leaving the people alone unless they are harming others. - amy31415, on 10/30/2008, -5/+33Wow, the guy in that article actually said: "The deepest problem with this story - the reason why the Republican party has fallen apart now - is that President Bush was too good, and up against too much."
Is he out of his mind?
His statements on the GOP's rejection of the youth completely ignore the fact that another 72 year old dude from the GOP completely FIRED UP the youth (among many others) for true conservative Constitutional, small-government, freedom ideals from across all party lines, race, and religion. And what did they do with it? They marginalized it, branded them as kooks and conspiracy theorists. He was treated with disdain and outright hostility, and so were us supporters. The only reason we got any coverage at all was due to our incredibly powerful, active and enthusiastic grassroots support.
The GOP could have had that and they BLEW it for their own small-minded corrupt ways. I, for one, will never forget not only what Bush during his 8 years of eroding our civil liberties and destruction of the middle class, but I will find it hard to forgive.
I will still vote for Republicans, but only ones like Ron Paul. BJ Lawson, for instance. So, after this election, I am switching my party to Independent. Bush-grovelling twits can go take a flying leap.
Worst. President. Ever. - uncajoe, on 10/30/2008, -15/+43My condolences, may the GOP R.I.P.
- Ymeg, on 10/30/2008, -5/+33The Republicans need to make a public split and form a new party. They should leave the taint behind and go back to the intelligent ideas the once had.
- kingofinternet, on 10/30/2008, -9/+37it's not dead, it's some sort of zombie, liche, frankenstein, gozer the gozerian type creature.
which is why evangelicals love them, their savior was undead too. - gotamd, on 10/31/2008, -4/+31I'm all for the death of both major parties. We need real choice.
- apastafarian, on 10/30/2008, -15/+41Yes, the Republican party has allowed itself to get hijacked by the social/religious conservatives and is now paying the price. I get that. It seems to me that political writers are now obsessed with finding new longer ways of explaining this obvious theory and trying to do it as poorly as possible.
Here's a post from the right that says the same thing completely differently but ultimately, it's crap too-
http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Lie_of_Moder ... - inactive, on 10/31/2008, -4/+27I seriously heard a report yesterday somewhere that Palin was somehow going to play a big part in the GOP over the next few years.
And I just stood back bewildered, because really, who the ***** is she and what weight do people think she carries? Just because she was a random VP pick doesn't make her a poster-boy for the party.
I mean, if the world wasn't laughing at us now prior to that circus, they sure as hell are now because of her.
In any case, Republicans need to relabel their party because they are *not* Republicans! I don't know why people keep thinking they are. Republicans are for the constitution, for smaller government, for smaller businesses. The Republicans in office now are NONE of those things, and are more or less on the side of Corporatism/Facism/some kind of extreme Religious party. As misused as those terms are, it actually does apply in our current day situation of ever expanding government (think of it, after 9/11 ***** expanded more than it needed to) that is really only looking out for big business.
I'm not a huge Ron Paul fanatic, but he's more closer to true Republican than any Republican in office today.
Hell, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Compare his progressive open mindedness to Bush, or McCain, or pretty much any Republican, and you will be comparing apples to f'n oranges. - Zong, on 10/31/2008, -0/+23How old will Ron Paul be in 2012? But I believe that if the republicans reinvent them selves or become a new party entirely they should follow Ron Paul ideals and solutions. He isn't perfect but he will provide the right amount of balance between the Democrats.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/31/2008, -2/+24"but there is always two sides to something"
No, there isn't. There's no second side to 2+2, or solid science. There are other sides to subjective non-falsifiable things. But there's a hell of a lot more sides to any of those than 'two'. Two just leads to an us Vs. them mentality instead of an honest exploration of the root causes of problems. - oldgal, on 10/30/2008, -3/+23The democrats need to be careful - if they go extreme left the same demise will befall them in the future.
- nosecohn, on 10/31/2008, -4/+18I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The left wing of the party wants single-payer health care, publicly financed campaigns, no immunity for telecoms under FISA, a complete repeal of the Patriot Act, end to the drug war, impeachment of Bush, etc. Obama has come out against all those things and more. That makes him a moderate. Look to Dennis Kucinich for an example of the left wing. Furthermore, any politician who has a shot at winning in the US, including Obama, is right-of-center by world standards.
- algaeturd, on 10/30/2008, -19/+33Ding Dong, the witch is dead. Couldn't have happened to a more selfish, hateful, bitter party.
- masterspeaks, on 10/30/2008, -2/+16Quite honestly, the primary reason I voted for Obama is the fact that 2-3 Supreme Court Justices are likely to retire/die within the next four years. Too many votes have come down to 5-4 splits and with Kennedy as the tie-breaker, I fear if we lose 2 liberal justices under a Republican President the impact it would have a profound impact upon the interpretation of the law for generations.
If the justices weren't an issue, I would be happy to see a Republican try to complete the ***** soup that has been the Bush administration. Policy wise he couldn't do too much harm with a Democratic congress. My worry is that when Obama wins he will be left with all these economic troubles that ruin his chances in four years, giving the government right back to the Republicans. - oldhick, on 10/31/2008, -9/+22I hope the GOP will one day return to its roots. Having a single party such as the Democrats with a super majority could be deadly to the Constitution (not that GOP did the Constitution any favors). The assault on the 2nd amendment will be swift as will the assault on the 1st amendment in the form of the fairness doctrine. I hope I am wrong. But the history and rhetoric that comes from Pelosi, Boxer and the rest should be equally has frightening.
I left the GOP and believe they should be punished. Many others feel as I do. But we still need one party to respect the Constitution and I fear it will not be the Dems once they seize power. I hope I am wrong and the Dem leadership will surprise many of us. - muckemuck, on 10/31/2008, -1/+14Nope, you're just in time to roll up your sleeves and start pushing neoconservatives out of the "tent". Start going to your county GOP meetings and get involved. Go to your county, district, and state GOP conventions.
- Sean42, on 10/31/2008, -2/+15Hey rosco, why don't you an' Boss Hogg stick to gettin' those Duke Boys and leave politics to the grownups.
- AlaskaLoneWolf, on 10/30/2008, -13/+26...perhaps it's a good thing, with most of congress moving Democrat, don't think McCain would've gotten much done anyways.
- bcamp1973, on 10/31/2008, -4/+17I prefer "rot in hell"
- AgahniMalebogia, on 10/31/2008, -0/+12So is ignorance really bliss?
- rotundo, on 10/31/2008, -0/+12He is completely out of his mind.
Bush had a Republican congress backing him up for the majority of his tenure and after 8 years, the maximum amount of time that any president can have, we are worse off by every measure. There is no escaping it for any rational mind: Bush and his administration and his policies truly, dramatically, profoundly sucked.
Anyone who can't accept this is the worst kind of person: able to cause great harm to a great many, and unwilling to learn or change even from the most stark evidence.
God damn, if the 90's had gone as bad as the 2000s have so far, I'd have very much admitted that my ideas were wrong and I'd start trying to learn why. - richirwin, on 10/31/2008, -0/+12I would love that this would be true, but I'm not counting them out yet.
The republican party is hurting badly. If Palin is the rising star, then it's hurting worse than I originally thought.
Who are the young people to take over? Pawlenty? Palin? Eric Cantor? All are hard-right republicans - the kind that has cost the republican party their majority.
Maybe it's time for a splinter group of true conservative republicans to break away from the evangelicals. - sentime, on 10/31/2008, -3/+15Hello new boss, same as old boss.
- stockjones, on 10/31/2008, -0/+12Personally we need to move away from the two party politics and base choices simply on an individuals criteria. We've been white and black for too long
- IAmTheGuy, on 10/31/2008, -2/+14The Republican party isn't dead. It's just on life support. This (presumably) lost election on their part will make them take a few steps back to assess the situation, regroup and be back for action in 2012. Remember how horribly run the Democratic party was just a scant 4 years ago with John Kerry?
- krahzee, on 10/31/2008, -2/+13The Republican Party is no more dead than the Democratic Party was during the Reagan Years. These things always swing like a pendulum
- truthteller426, on 10/31/2008, -3/+14Pat Buchanan said: "I never left the Republican Party, it left me." The last 8 years made me really identify with his statement.
- inactive, on 10/31/2008, -2/+13Gozer the Gozerian, nostalgia.
Your comment is composed of win. - 0260, on 10/31/2008, -6/+17oh man, and i just registered republican. i'm too late for fun
- snoudude, on 10/31/2008, -0/+11Assuming we have free elections by then or we're not in the middle of a civil war.
- subterfuge, on 10/31/2008, -0/+11keep in mind that about 33% of the voting population is independent. if the independents and the dispersed republicans (which would constitute about 66% of the population) were able to amend the united states constitutions (although the constitutions at least some of the state would be amended first) to allow for *proportional representation*, the democrats could end up getting hurt. if the democrats are the largest party but 3rd parties suddenly find they have much more power, they will attract people (such as myself) who tend to vote democratic even though they're libertarian.
overall, the disintegration of bipartisan politics into multiparty politics would be good for the nation because it would lead to less extreme policy shifts between administrations, more compromise in legislature, and greater voter turnout as people's votes actually begin to count. - cambo125, on 10/31/2008, -3/+14Here is the article.
Time for a New Third Party Republican Party Offshoot
The Republican Party is dead. Yes, I'm saying this before the election. Even if McCain wins, which could happen if Obama supporters stay home thinking the election is in the bag, the GOP still has lost its way along with a substantial number of members. While high-profile Republicans like Susan Eisenhower and Frank Schaeffer have made the headlines, the real exodus is on Main Street.
Contrary to popular belief, a large percentage of Republicans are unhappy not because of the Bush administration itself, but because of the recent clear revelations of what direction the Party is heading. Actually, we've started realizing the problems began all the way back in Reagan's presidency, and the only thing that has remained "Republican" has been the talking points. Let's quickly review the Republican Principles listed on the GOP site itself.
Republican Principles
I'm a Republican Because...
I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.
I BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.
I BELIEVE free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.
I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.
I BELIEVE Americans must retain the principles that have made us strong while developing new and innovative ideas to meet the challenges of changing times.
I BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world.
FINALLY, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.
Does the current Republican leadership represent these values? An honest assessment will reveal that there is a new set of principles at work within the leadership.
2008 Republican Principles (Chuck Lasker's perception)
I'm a Republican Because...
I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies in military might and God's help, as long as we do His Will and make this a Christian nation while supporting Israel until the day Israel is destroyed and Jesus returns.
I BELIEVE that each person's dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored unless we can encroach on these in the name of safety or other short-term excuse that the idiot populace will accept.
I BELIEVE in special rights and justice for Republican politicians, Christian leaders, the extremely wealthy and lobbyists, regardless of cause as long as the money is right.
I BELIEVE in equal justice and equal opportunity for everyone else, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability, unless we're talking about lazy black people, illegal Mexican people, uneducated women, homosexuals, or, if justice and opportunity for disabled people costs businesses money.
I BELIEVE large corporate profits, stock market wealth and protection of monopolies will bring this nation opportunity, economic growth and increased prosperity for the upper one percent of incomes.
I BELIEVE government should talk about fiscal responsibility and allowing individuals to keep more of the money they earn, but should actually borrow and spend recklessly and place the full burden of taxes on those with lower and lower incomes and future generations for short term gain. Any taxes on the rich are socialism.
I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to advance Christian evangelical morals through tax code, control of education, judicial appointments, privatization and the proper Christian philosophies of wealth and warfare.
I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government run by those who know best, and all means necessary must be used to work against poll access by the lowly, the lazy, the stupid and the poor.
I BELIEVE the Republican Party was founded by America's founding fathers to fight Roe vs. Wade, to protect "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance they wrote, to put "Under God" on our money, and to keep the Ten Commandments in our Courtrooms and government buildings.
I BELIEVE that we must never speak to our enemies, unless they're very big enemies with money and cheap labor agreements.
I BELIEVE in free trade with lower nations that provide cheap labor and higher profits and any attempt to induce labor or environmental equality on these nations is liberalism.
I BELIEVE you're either with us or you're with the terrorists. If you do not have the same beliefs we do, you are un-American and worthy of derision, abuse, vandalism, placement on no-fly lists and investigation.
I BELIEVE anyone labeled "liberal" is a socialist, which is actually communist, which is actually Marxist, which means evil.
I BELIEVE abortion must be made illegal, but stopping extramarital and teen sex is more important than reducing abortion rates, so I support abstinence-only education, blocking of access to birth control by teens, and punishing poor people for being lazy by blocking access to health care to those women who want to keep their babies.
I BELIEVE Americans must retain only those principles that we consider important while developing new and innovative ideas for bringing power to a Republican executive branch and reducing the power of the annoying Congress and the activist Courts.
I BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights to good Americans only, and to create international opportunities throughout the world to develop inexpensive manufacturing for American companies.
FINALLY, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government, and I believe we must use any means necessary, including lies, smears, voter suppression, federal police, the Secret Service, warrantless spying, even the destruction of lives and reputations, to progress our God-endorsed agenda.
Frank Schaeffer, author of the memoir that explains his (now regretted) part in helping the evangelicals take over the Republican Party titled "Crazy for God," describes our current Party well in his Huffington Post blog. The Republican Party has been taken over by The Religious Right, The Neoconservative Movement, and Corporate Business Interests.
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, has also left the Republican Party with a scathing indictment of the McCain campaign and the current GOP leadership.
Many moderate Republicans still do not realize what has happened. They believe the Republican Party is still the same. They follow the Republican rhetoric of today because they haven't stopped to see the hypocrisy, the contradictions, and the slowly-changed priorities. Those moderate Republicans still supporting McCain are unwitting participants in an entirely new agenda.
This is why you have middle class Republicans screaming that there should be more tax breaks for the rich, but tax breaks for the middle class are socialism. This is why, after 40 years of Republicans doing nothing to reduce abortions, pro-lifers are still voting for Republicans with the insane hope that this time they'll do something. This is why Christian Republicans are supporting a Christian-in-name-only (McCain) against a fellow brother in Christ (Obama). And this is why a completely unqualified hockey mom can be touted as the "future of the Republican Party," simply because she spews out the proper talking points and wants to use courts and police forces to end abortion while eliminating programs that reduce unwanted pregnancies that lead to abortions.
I spoke with a young African-American Democrat at an Obama rally last month and he was shocked to learn where the GOP came from and the progressive programs we spearheaded. So, a little history of the Republican Party is in order. Don't skip it if you think you know our history, because you probably don't.
The Republican Party was created in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the interstate highway system, worked to integrate black and white public schools nationwide, and expanded Social Security. Republicans pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Richard Nixon sat down with Communist China and the Soviet Union "without preconditions" and negotiated new trade and arms agreements, expanded Social Security, tried to pass minimum wage and universal health care plans (unsuccessfully), created the EPA and OSHA, and created The Philadelphia Plan, which was the U.S. government's first affirmative action program. President Gerald Ford pushed through the Equal Rights Amendment, proclaiming, "In this Land of the Free, it is right, and by nature it ought to be, that all men and all women are equal before the law."
Does this sound like the party of Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin? Is this the kind of progress you hear from Republicans while promoting McCain on the news today? How did our Party get to this point? A little more history is in order, which again will probably surprise (and possibly anger) most Republicans.
President Reagan was the first president in American history to lower the highest tax rate and raise the lowest tax rate, beginning a shift in tax burden to the middle class that has continued through to the "Bush Tax Cuts." Reagan increased the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion. Reagan was the first Republican President to truly court the evangelical vote, moving the Republican platform far to the right. Reagan's coalition with evangelical leaders like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson and others began the anti-Democracy tactics of voter suppression of the poor and minorities. Paul Weyrich, a cofounder of the Moral Majority, said,
"Many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo goo' syndrome -- good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
Clearly, Ronald Reagan was doing what he thought was best for the country, and had no idea what evil would be wrought by allowing the Religious Right a seat at the GOP table. Reagan ended the Cold War, lead through a prosperous time in America, and made us safer than we'd been since before World War II. But an honest analysis shows that Reagan began the slide to the current neoconservative Party.
President George H. W. Bush attempted to overturn Reagan's borrow and spend legacy but was unsuccessful. Bush also ended the Kuwait-Iraq war quickly as befits Republican principles.
Under President Clinton, even as he balanced the budget and reformed welfare, the Republican leadership accelerated their right wing agenda using Clinton's "liberalism" as fear-based propaganda. By the time George W. Bush won the 2000 Republican nomination by pandering to the evangelicals against John McCain's centrist campaign, the religious right was firmly in control. However, most Republicans, including myself, continued to believe the Party supported the more moderate principles it still claimed to advocate.
Today, the Republican Party is a ghost of its original self. The Bush administration and Republican Congress increased the size of government, increased debt spending, pulled us into an unnecessary war, squandered our reputation internationally, violated our civil rights, reinterpreted the Constitution, attacked a non-threatening sovereign country, tortured prisoners, enabled monopolies and large corporations to crush individual initiatives, gave additional tax cuts only for the rich at the expense of the middle class, and destroyed any remaining trust Americans had in the government. The current GOP campaign is using lawyers to suppress Democratic votes, using hate, lies and smears, and has adopted an "ends justify the means" scorched-earth campaign that is literally destroying our Democratic system.
It's no wonder reasonable, tolerant, progressive Republicans are jumping ship, while new recruits to the Republican Party are diminishing. Why would anyone other than an extreme right wing evangelical Christian or selfish wealthy American even consider joining such a platform?
Some people are trying to fix the Republican Party from the inside, such as the Republican Leadership Council. But I believe this is a lost cause, as signaled by conservative Christopher Buckley's forced resignation from The National Review, the magazine his father founded, for endorsing Barack Obama for President. The "you're either with us or against us" neoconservatives attack any dissenting opinion with violent rhetoric or even actual violence. Frankly, the Republican Party leadership will not allow reform or change. - Batfishy, on 10/31/2008, -2/+13Exactly. The GOP can't seem to get out of the last century. Things never stay the same but conservatives hate change. The thing is, we can't stop change. And we can't let thousand year-old books dictate policy. It doesn't work anymore, it's not a valid argument for decision making because it excludes too many people - who vote. The GOP deserves what it has done to itself.
- subterfuge, on 10/31/2008, -0/+11first we need proprtional representation. but the republicrats would never vote for it because the 3rd parties would threaten them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_represen ... - inactive, on 10/31/2008, -6/+16The party may be dying, but the hatred, fear, stupidity and ignorance will live on forever.
- Phych, on 10/31/2008, -1/+11Facts the current GOP ignore also.
- Rothbardosaurus, on 10/31/2008, -6/+16American politics has been dominated by the Republicans and Democrats for the last 150 years. Today they are simply two symbiotic factions of the same establishment Party. Each one's power is based on making one half of the country feel threatened by the other. The Republican Party is not dead. This election year just isn't the GOP's turn to be a rockstar.
Obama will get elected, and then the honeymoon will end, and then he will get blamed for the wash of problems that will inevitably come, because he will do nothing to fundamentally change the parasitic system that put him in power. The people will get fed up, a Republican will be held up as a savior, the people will elect him, and be content once again that change is happening because the letter next to the President's name is different.
The Republican Party isn't going anywhere. It's an integral part of the political control system that keeps any real change from happening. - Phych, on 10/31/2008, -1/+11akchrs passed ignorance some time ago, now he's in the Stupidity zone.
- ingoldsby, on 10/31/2008, -1/+11I don't know about the GOP, but it looks like salon.com is dead.
- crunshii, on 10/31/2008, -13/+23The only person that can revive the Republican spirit like Jesus coming back from the grave is...
Ron Paul.
Too bad the GOP sinners prefer to die than to take the lead of the only Ronald Reagan spirited person of today's age who has made more sense than any Republican for the last 30 years. - inactive, on 10/31/2008, -2/+12Whoa, some guy named "Barackalypse" spouting Michael Savage Wiener talking points just called me asinine. I'm really gonna take that seriously.
- mikeoncampus, on 10/31/2008, -2/+11a little rash dont you think?
- rupertmorris, on 10/31/2008, -0/+9FTA: "The Bush administration and Republican Congress increased the size of government, increased debt spending, pulled us into an unnecessary war, squandered our reputation internationally, violated our civil rights, reinterpreted the Constitution, attacked a non-threatening sovereign country, tortured prisoners, enabled monopolies and large corporations to crush individual initiatives, gave additional tax cuts only for the rich at the expense of the middle class, and destroyed any remaining trust Americans had in the government."
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