Few doubt the Republicans shot themselves in the foot multiple times these past eight years. While the country may be generally a little right of center, the Republicans can’t get themselves right enough to the exclusion of those who disagree and might vote for someone who isn’t a Dem, but can’t stand their stands. While we’re hardly saying the Dems are shining beacons of purity and light, they do have the WH and Congress, and a much higher number of Americans claiming membership.
Where do you stand on the political spectrum? With which party do you associate yourself? What do you think the Republicans can do to keep from dying out? Should the party die out as others in the past have and be replaced with a center right party? Are the Democrats too far left? Not far left enough?
#10:
“They control the big cities, and they vote now more than ever.”
Thank god we still have the electoral college.
Plausible:
Coasts eliminate the electoral college, because they don’t like the idea that a podunk state gets the same representation as NY. Heartland secedes and immediately starts gouging the coasts for: oil, coal, power from wind farms, food (because there’s no arable land on the coasts), and transport over land from coast to coast.
At this point, 7/21 or 33% of the comments belong to that loonbat Alfred1, which really skews the data. Hey, SHUT UP! Go clean the basement or something, don’t you have anything better to do than comment here?
#22 — I thought this blog was turning into Alfred Uncensored. All Alfred talks about is democrats and liberals.
#19 — I agree. Change will not occur until voting habits change. Third parties will not become influential until people make them influential.
The current Republican party will not fix itself until a third party challenges it. May be the Pirate Party (http://pirate-party.us/) could be the challenger.
#22 Hey bubble boy…I can’t drink decaffeinated anymore…it reminds me of you…no active ingrediant in the bean.
#23 Warms me heart the truth is so upsetting to you.
#25 Wow, it’s talk like a pirate day already!
#15 Sarah Palin causes your rear end to twitch…like it did when you were in prison…
She is the embodiment of liberty, her pioneer lifestyle implies freedom from Government…
2012 is hers…and we will need her executive experience to roll back EVERYTHING Obamaphiles have enacted…and we must try to recover the billions that were stolen.
Its plausible the loons were envious over what Madoff accomplished…so they did him trillions better via bailouts…
We must restore the death penalty for theft in office so we can apply it to everyone in Government now.
#26 Aye!
#17 I was thinking of joining a third party…one innocent of all the statism…and bailouts…
But Rush Limbaugh observed Ross Perot( whom I voted for) only succeeded in getting Bill Clinton elected.
So I’m working on the inside to make the Republican party hit bottom faster…so we can build it back up to represent the people….like it did when Ronald Reagan was president…
Republicans still don’t understand what there problem is.
They think the problem is RINOs or members not being conservative enough.
I personally am sick of the word conservative.
What does this mean in the context it is being used in?
My definition of conservative how the Republicans have practiced it is:
1. free market to the extent of neglect of government’s duty to keep an eye on things
2. Appeal to the uneducated masses to the extent you drink your own kool-aid. Science? Stupid! Social services? The lazy bastards.
There is nothing more dangerous than a party with an identity crisis because you cannot know what to expect and charlatans try to take control is such situations.
Our 2 party system sucks, but I’d far rather see a thinking and evolving democratic party in control of things.
#7 Alfred_the_loon said: Actually, out of 100 people named Dallas, 84.6% of them.. blah blah”
According to a real certifiable statistic, the name ‘Alfred’ was somewhat popular up until 1930. This correlates well with you at about 80, with a backwards, out of touch philosophy – aside from being a loony.
Since early 1930′s, the name declined to a point to now being an embarrassment.
http://babynamespedia.com/meaning/Alfred
There is no “reasonable” party. Most Americans are moderates and there is no party that represents their views. I consider myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal. There is no party that represents those viewpoints. The Democrats lose me when they rack up 2 trillion dollar deficits and the Republicans lose me when they think that condoms are the source of all the world’s woes.
#27
Sarah Palin is a perfect example what is wrong with the Republicans. There used to be a time when the Republicans were not so loony religious. The day we know the Republicans have changed is the day they put up a candidate that is not Christian. If the Republicans are the party of the uber-rich, where are the uber-rich smart people to run for office (or are they too smart for that)?
#31 The right can’t even manage a funny or clever insult. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Palin is the best candidate due to her “lifestyle”. They can’t even manage their own party right now, they are not going to manage a government. Third parties don’t work in the US since Americans prefer to replay the civil war with every election with each side taking turns at being the South.
Looking at it from the outside, the Republicans remind me Comic Book Guy these days. Now there’s a winning image.
The party of the GREEDY OBESE PIGS (GOP) is in it’s DEATH THROWS !!! First Specter, and then “Joe the Plumber” are quiting, and now Prick Cheney is ready to DRUM COLIN POWELL OUT OF THE PARTY TOO !!! I guess the “Big Tent” is no more !!! So except for Alan Keyes, they don’t really want the African-American vote !!! (No MILLIONAIRES OR BILLIONAIRES THERE !!!) The GOP – the party of RICH WHITE FASCISTS !!! Good riddance to them !!! May the WANDER IN THE DESERT FOR 400 YEARS !!!
I want a party that’s conservative in fiscal matters and supports a free market economy that is regulated by the government for the purpose of strengthening that free market. I also want a party that support stable social institutions, but not at the expense of excluding people. For example, I don’t know whether being gay is a natural phenomenon or a deviation from abuse or brain chemistry anomalies, but I do know that supporting gay marriage/unions would help to stabilize society. Religion is generally good, but it shouldn’t be an excuse to be stupid and ignore reality. Also, I’d like to live in a planet that’s isn’t polluted and constantly at war.
If I vote democrat, I’m voting for wasteful spending and general disregard for important social institutions. If I vote republican, I’m voting for intolerance, wars, and pollution. Either way, I’m not happy. My strategy has been to vote for the major party not in power to limit the corruption and hope for some kind of balance.
I registered as a republican, but I’m a social liberal and fiscal conservative. Its hard for me to define myself as simply left or right.
#36 Be a freedom loving patriot then…defeat statism…victory of the individual over the state..
#34 Let the door hit Colin Powel in backside as he is forced out the door!
Goodby dickhead!
Answer:
Goodby dickhead!
Question:
What do Republicans say when one of their own dares speak the truth…in contrast to their AM Radio overlord?
Olo. The paranoid on the right think everyone is out to get them (liberals, rinos, urban, press, etc). The reality is that they eat their own young.