The end of the Republican party

[Jim in CT]

Saltheart, everyone said the same exact thing in 2008, thatthe GOP was dead. we came roaring back 2 years later. People like to forget that, but that's what happened.

i feel the GOP will do fine in midterm elections (like 2010), but we will strugle in presidential elections, because th emedia spends 24/7 painting the GOP candidate as amonster.

Polls show that a small majority of Americans oppose abortion. Polls show that a large number of Americans don't think "borrow-and-spend-on liberal pet projects" is the way out of this mess.

In another thread, I said (and believe in my heart) that Americans aren't opposed to what Republicans believe. They are opposed to what the media claims we believe. And that misrepresentation is much easier to pull off when th emedia has one presidential candidate to worry about, then hundrdes of congressional candidates.

The GOP will struggle to lect a president until one of the following things happen...the economy collapses, we find more honest outlets to put forth what we believe (as opposed to what Sean Penn says we believe), or we get a spectacular candidate (could be Marco Rubio in 2016).

The GOP has a majority of governorships. And we maintained control over teh house of reps.

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

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Polls show that a small majority of Americans oppose abortion. Polls show that a large number of Americans don't think "borrow-and-spend-on liberal pet projects" is the way out of this mess.

In another thread, I said (and believe in my heart) that Americans aren't opposed to what Republicans believe. They are opposed to what the media claims we believe. And that misrepresentation is much easier to pull off when th emedia has one presidential candidate to worry about, then hundrdes of congressional candidates.

The GOP will struggle to lect a president until one of the following things happen...the economy collapses, we find more honest outlets to put forth what we believe (as opposed to what Sean Penn says we believe), or we get a spectacular candidate (could be Marco Rubio in 2016).

The GOP has a majority of governorships. And we maintained control over teh house of reps.

wow, that was a very intelligent post

[wader-dad]

Romney would have won easily if he stayed the moderate Governor Mitt Romney from Mass. I don't understand why he felt the need to satisfy a certain extreme faction of the party. They are never going to vote democratic so why pander to them?

What is wrong with being a moderate republican? why can't that work?

I agree with this that i read:

This failure began with the spectacle of the extended primary season, which was dominated by candidates with views far outside the political mainstream. Rick Santorum rejected the separation of church and state. Newt Gingrich challenged the notion of judicial supremacy. Michele Bachmann claimed the government had been infiltrated by radical Muslims. Donald Trump refused to recognize the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. Rick Perry wanted to take down more parts of the federal government than he could successfully name. In the debates, the country saw the GOP talking to itself and sounding like a bizarre fringe party, not a responsible governing one.

Romney is not a right-wing extremist. To win the nomination, though, he had to feign being one, recasting himself as “severely conservative” and eschewing the reasonableness that made him a successful, moderate governor of the country’s most liberal state.