Rare.us | Is the GOP in crisis? Not really Agree or disagree? Is it really not their problem? should they continue to look after their best interest? or look after the party's best interest?
The two U.S. political parties are never in crisis. Both are working towards the same goal. The blame for the current gridlock is being placed on the Tea Party Republicans, and this is causing all Congressional Republicans to be hit by the flack. But when election time comes, most voters see the incumbent party as being at fault and will vote for the opposition. Both parties depend on this political unawareness of the majority, and it has served the few people that actually rule this country well. It is most likely this voter ignorance of facts and their preference to believe in the politicians' fairy tales and empty promises that will sweep the GOP into the White House and Congress in 2016. The debt will continue to skyrocket and average Americans will continue to lose financial ground. The status quo of the past three decades will carry on as the middle class shrinks.
Alabama 1 showed last week that there is an internal war inside the GOP. Once the monied interests get behind the GOP brand versus the TEA Party brand, the GOP candidate comes out ahead and winning. That is not good for the Tea Party as a whole, but I also don't think they will lose every election, just the important ones.
The Tea Party is a carnival that comes to town to rob the residents. The “carny-men” pick the pockets of the spectators, sell snake oil to the weak minded, and then move on to the next group of chumps that are eagerly waiting to get screwed. It won’t be long until these sideshow barkers fold their tents, or the citizenry finally sees them for the self-serving crooks they are and runs them out of town. The townsfolk will then sit back and await the arrival of the next circus, anticipating the joy it will bring them. In a quote mistakenly credited to P.T. Barnum, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Speaking of sitting back and waiting... thats all the GOP has to do between now and next Nov. Obamacare will take care if the rest By the time midterms roll around, Dems won't be able to buy a vote... in Chicago.
Republicans should go back to conservatism and loose the fence sitters aka RHINOs. They have been held back by them for far too long.
A crisis? No. Just the constructive destruction necessary for adapting to the political climate. The RINOs have outlived their usefulness and have to be replaced.
Every ten of fifteen years the GOP goes crazy and elects a bunch of brain-dead fanatics. The few who survive become establishment types after a while, are called RINOs, and are hated by the next generation of idiots. Still, over the last 30 years, the GOP has gone totally crazy ideologically and lost touch with what little reality they ever recognized. Let the party destroy itself (a charming thought).
A RINO certainly had a great showing in New Jersey. The further right the GOP moves, the more the moderate voters, necessary to win elections, move away from the Republican Party.
I wish that were true. Sadly it appears that the so called "moderate voters" are primarily concerned with being "moderate voters". In fact the SO CALLED middle has shifted so far to the right that even the LEFT is more conservative than the right USED to be. For example, Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed OSHA into law. Does anyone really think that could even get through Congress today? Obama, a so called Democrat, keeps trying to defund Social Security and Medicare. These so called "moderate voters" are the same ones who turned George Duh-bya Bush loose in the White House for 8 years so he could waste TRILLIONS of dollars on the Iraq War, torture people, and destroy the US economy. Obama is so conservative that he not only didn't prosecute Bush he actually codified some of his worst policies into law by not repealing them. Yet moderates want to be BETWEEN the two RIGHT WING extremes. As the saying goes, "Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
The GOP is in big trouble because they are in a demographic death spiral. At the moment, they are the white only party. Unless they can get more non white people voting for them, they are in serious trouble. Already white children under the age of 3 are in the minority. So if they cling to the white vote, they are doomed.
"A RINO certainly had a great showing in New Jersey." Taxcutter says: That deep blue New Jersey elected a Republican at all shows their dissatisfaction with the Democrats.
