LA Times - GOP Is Poised To Become Even More Conservative After the Election. Amazing!

[Median Democrat]

This article in the LA Times discusses how the GOP is poised to grow even more conservative following the election. You would think that with the prospect of losses in the upcoming election that the GOP would try to move towards the center. However, the GOP is doing the opposite and cozying up even closer to social conservatives.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-gop28-2008oct28,0,3963149.story

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The social conservatives and moderates who together boosted the Republican Party to dominance have begun a tense battle over the future of the GOP, with social conservatives already moving to seize control of the party's machinery and some vowing to limit John McCain's influence, even if he wins the presidency.

In skirmishes around the country in recent months, evangelicals and others who believe Republicans have been too timid in fighting abortion, gay marriage and illegal immigration have won election to the party's national committee, in preparation for a fight over the direction and leadership of the party.


The growing power of religious conservatives is alarming some moderate Republicans who believe that the party's main problem is that it has narrowed its appeal and alienated too many voters. They cite the aggressive tone of the McCain campaign in challenging Barack Obama, who has close to universal support from African American voters; as well as the push by many Republican leaders to clamp down on illegal immigration using rhetoric that has driven away Latinos.

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[TeamJordan23]

1. great news!

They can say goodbye to election wins if this is the case.

[onehandle]

2. Good. Let the crazies take over. They'll be out nationally forever. nt

[MikeNearMcChord]

3. I predict moderates and libertarians will merge, into a oppositiion party to the Democratic Party

The GOP has gone into Whig territory, no big bucks are going to pour money into a backward-ass regional party.

[Pyrzqxgl]

15. I don't think moderate Republicans & Libertarians are coming from the same place.

The two big parties have for a long time had room for various factions. I don't expect that the far right will hold on for long. A couple of buttkickings
and the GOP will be back to their coalition of crooks that has worked so well for them over the years.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. I haven't read the article yet, so this is just off the top of my head:

I say, "good." Because those with sense and decency will either become moderate or conservative Democrats, or they will begin a viable third party and, in the end, those on the far right will be minimized and, in essence, the actual Republican party will be back through this new third party. I don't know what they'll call themselves, maybe something like the Conservative Independent Party, or something along those descriptive lines.

[tridim]

5. They party is indeed over.

I can't wait to witness the GOP's self-destruction after Nov 4th. :)

[Pyrzqxgl]

19. Over until they find a new star to jump on. Don't ignore history.

I remember a college political science professor at San Diego State University who remarked in the mid 1960s that the GOP would never again elect
a President or hold a majority in Congress. Never count corrupt people out.

[tridim]

23. Their new stars are Sarah Freaking Palin and Adam "Opie" Putnam.

The GOP is dying regardless of your 40 year old anecdote.

[scheming daemons]

6. They will blame it all on McCain being too "liberal"

[Overseas]

7. Yes please. Go totally rabid right wing all the way.

Alienate all Americans that have friends and family who are gay and Latino.

And those true Republicans should get that Rev. Murthee that Sarah likes back out there to warn everyone about those Israelite bankers. His last video didn't get 1/10 of the play that the Rev. Wright stuff got.

Show us who the Modern Republicans really are -- Neo Nazis and proud of it.

[fascisthunter]

8. good

however I seriously doubt the right wing will be able to keep control of the GOP. Me thinks there will be a major fracturing within the GOP after the election. Lot's of blaming...

[BeyondGeography]

9. Could be looking at the end of the two-party system here

They are that fargone.

[kwolf68]

12. The Repuke party should die

Some of them need to go to the Libertarians
Some will join with us Dems
Some will start a new Jesus Party

[endarkenment]

10. Great news!

they can go strangle themselves with their vile repellent rightwing fundaloon dingbat idiocy. It was when they were occupying the center that they had their greatest political strength.

[opihimoimoi]

11. GOOPerCIDE? who woulda thought? OMG...they actually think

their old ideas are still good?

Can they bot see the Damage from the past GOP decisions/actions? are they Blind...Dumb...NUMB?

[Arugula Latte]

13. Go the way of the Whigs, GOP.

But just go away.

[renie408]

14. The GOP is going to break in half. The split will be between the fundie nut jobs and

the rich people. Fundie nut jobs are fine when they are helping you win. They are just not that much fun when they can't pull off an election for you.

[Arugula Latte]

16. GOP vs. GOP ... God's Own Peculiars vs. Greedy Old Pricks

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Great! Let them ride dinosaurs and fly pterodactyls - Let them return to the stone age

and argue among themselves whether fire is really a new-fangled liberal plot. Let them continue rejecting modern science and other intellectual pursuits. They're putting themselves on the road to extinction.

[Cha]

18. Yeah, whatever doesn't work and

is the sleaziest they go for.

[laconicsax]

20. Good.

[smoochpooch]

21. The really great thing is, we can probably still run against G.W. B*sh in 2012.

People are still going to remember what a terrible president he was, that he was a Rethug, that he lied and started wars, and that he had the same policies as the extremists that will run in 2012. As long as the country isn't significantly worse off 4 yrs from now, I think we should be able to keep control of the White House and Congress for at least 6 yrs.

[snooper2]

22. Well no shit...the ones who are in safe districts

are in "safe districts" for a reason...


Fucking idiots live in those districts :rofl: