A general election disaster could give the GOP reason to rethink its message

[stubtoe]

The author, Tom Keane, argues that the GOP should just go ahead and nominate a Gingrich or a Santorum, get the crazed social conservatism "out of its system", and let them endure the spectacular thrashing that would occur in the general election.

If, he argues, Romney is the candidate, he'll pivot to the center, looking for moderates.

Then, if he is defeated, the far righties will say the GOP shouldn't try to be moderate, and will swing even harder to the far right.

Either way, it's a popcorn moment.

A McGovern moment? A general election disaster could give the GOP reason to rethink its message

[Warren Stupidity]

1. They double-downed after 2008. Came back and took over in 2010.

They will suffer a humiliation, most likely, at the presidential level in '12, but will probably take the Senate, and may keep a fair number of the loonislatures they conquered in 2010. I don't see them changing course.

[orwell]

2. +100...n/t

[Blue Meany]

3. It doesn't really matter if they change their "message,"

their actions will remain the same: defending the financial interests of the 1% at all costs.

[villager]

4. which, sadly, are usually the actions of the "reasonable/sane" Democrats, as well...

n/t

[lastlib]

5. The far-righties will never re-think; it's congenital.

First requirement to re-thinking will be to have thought about it in the first place; with the message they have, it's obvious that they never thought it through.

What they will really do is just try to think up new ways to cram the old message down our throats, or sneak their agenda in when we aren't looking.