What's Next for the Republican Party?

[Willie Escalade]

Death

Winner winner chicken dinner

[danthepoetman]

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[robertlouis]

What's implicit in so many Republicans' rejection of Obama's victory is a rejection of the entire democratic process and the elaborate apparatus constructed by the founding fathers which lies at the base of the entire constitution. These are things which they claim to love and cherish.

It's laughable, but it's dangerous too.

[fred41]

...give it a couple of months...you can't judge any of this so early after an election.

[robertlouis]

...give it a couple of months...you can't judge any of this so early after an election.

I fervently hope you're right, Fred, but I have my doubts.

Can we make a date to discuss after Obama's inauguration?

[fred41]

Sounds fair.
Should be enough time to gauge it all.

[trish]

After the 2008 election the GOP was declared hopelessly broken. By the 2010 elections it bounced back with the help of an energized base of teabagging birthers, social security collecting, government hating retirees on medicare and other assorted mentally challenged racists. A whole slew of patriotic, government hating, proud-that-we're-the-non-apologizing-leader-of-the-free-world dimwits were sent to Washington to govern a complex nation that spans a continent and "leads" the free world.

True, the GOP primary candidates were a clown car of no-brain losers...Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Cain are all bottom of the barrel Palinesque boobs. It was sad (not to mention scary) to see each one have his week or two in the Sun. To think that Cain or Santorum actually could've been the GOP nominee makes my skin crawl. There was one exception. Huntsman never had his week in the Sun, even though he was the lone sane man in the asylum (to mix a metaphor). Exempting Huntsman, Romney had the highest IQ in the car and unlike Huntsman, Romney had real contempt for the "mooching" class who only work eighteen hours a day holding down three minimum wage jobs and don't make enough money to owe Federal income. He didn't have to be caught on tape for that contempt to shine through...it was obvious from the start that Romney enjoys firing people, forcibly shaving the hair off school boys and roof-riding the family dog 'til it was scared shitless. He wasn't ideal. He was Mormon. He was hardly charismatic. His defining characteristic was that he had no defining characteristics. He was a pod-person. But his hatred for "giveaways," his contempt for "takers," his enthusiasm for the virtues of greed and avarice shown through his cracked smile like a black light. The teabagging mouth breathers, and the hollow eyed billionaires chose Romney for that dark luminescence (and his one extra IQ point beyond Perry's) and backed him to the hilt.

The GOP came back in 2010 and nobody knew (though many claimed they knew) how the 2012 election would come out. If Romney won I was prepared to go to Washington holding a "Keep Your Govmn't Hands Off My ObamaCare" sign. Fortunately for the Nation the fiscally conservative and socially slowly-progressing party won( i.e. the democratic party); by a wide margin. The GOP is still reeling...still trying to spin it their way. Democrats are just relieved.

Is the GOP dead in water? Not for long. They're already strategizing on how to save the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy from the fiscal slope (otherwise known as the Austerity Bomb). Rubio (another numskull who thinks: the Earth is 6000 years old and anyway the science that determines it's age is irrelevant to the economy) is already campaigning. They'll be back in two years and two years after that. We can only hope that sometime in the future they will evolve larger brain pans and grow hearts three sizes larger than the selfish grinch-hearts that currently spasm in their hollow, teabagging breasts.

[Prospero]

Brilliant Trish... "hollow eyed billionaires", "dark luminescence", "selfish grinch-hearts" - you should be speech writing for the Democrats.

I see that another Bush - Jeb's son - is already being talked-up as a potential Republican candidate because he is part hispanic.

[Prospero]

What is curious is the wholesale absence from the post election discussions here of such in house and previously vocal Republican supporters as Faldur. (We know why OMK is missing - since he is locked out until he explains his scurrilous tampering with re-published journalism)

But Faldur and the others. Why not offer us your judgements on what went wrong and what next for the Republicans.

[robertlouis]

What is curious is the wholesale absence from the post election discussions here of such in house and previously vocal Republican supporters as Faldur. (We know why OMK is missing - since he is locked out until he explains his scurrilous tampering with re-published journalism)

But Faldur and the others. Why not offer us your judgements on what went wrong and what next for the Republicans.

Multiple explosion of pointy heads?