In the long term they will become irrelevant. (Reply #12)

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Thu Sep 27, 2012, 12:40 PM

mick063 (2,424 posts)

12. In the long term they will become irrelevant.

Impending demographic changes guarantee this.

But it will take painfully longer than it would naturally occur because of Fox News.

I think of it like this. The GOP, suffering from a horrific traffic accident, is now in the hospital on life support. They are comatose and the life support machine is called Fox News.

Many people in such a dibilitating state, would simply prefer to have the doctor pull the plug, but as long as Murdoch is alive, the Fox News life support machine will keep running. There may come a time when the conservative base will turn on Fox News itself for leading them down this path and forcing them to endure such pain over multiple election cycles.

This will be a long, slow, agonizing death for the GOP because of the Fox life support machine.

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46 replies	Author	Time	Post
How a Romney Loss Would Impact the GOP [View all]	ProSense	Sep 2012	OP
The republican party should look in the mirror. That is who to blame. Romney is doing	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#1
They need an 'Obama' of their own. I don't see anyone on the horizon for them.	randome	Sep 2012	#2
Until the get rid of their tea party and religous right they may keep having problems.	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#19
How about Mr. 999 ?	Auntie Bush	Sep 2012	#34
The republican party should look in the mirror.	Flashmann	Sep 2012	#4
Well the 47% will help them look at themselves.	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#18
Yeah, Romney is a tool	ProSense	Sep 2012	#6
People finally have woken up and seeing that Mittens represents what all republicans think.	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#17
Republican voters have been duped	Jessy169	Sep 2012	#38
It's the Fox News Network. Listen I grew up in a dem family. We always voted our	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#46
Mitt Romney is not the one who destroyed the Republican Party, nor can he clean it up	1-Old-Man	Sep 2012	#3
AWESOME! Democrats are coming out to fight.	Zalatix	Sep 2012	#5
Thank you for helping	lovemydog	Sep 2012	#43
As long as Democrats don't take a sharp right turn, too.	sadbear	Sep 2012	#7
Democrats need to stay where they are now, it's a winning position.	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#22
I'm holding out hope for Dr. Dean.	sadbear	Sep 2012	#23
I was just thinking the same thing! eom	Th1onein	Sep 2012	#39
Agreed. Even if he decides NOT to take another run at the White House,	Volaris	Sep 2012	#45
Rmoney wouldn't care either way because	BumRushDaShow	Sep 2012	#8
When Willard loses - and I think he will lose big	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#9
Excellent analysis.	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#24
Quotable, all of it.	Populist_Prole	Sep 2012	#41
They'll react like they always do - by going further to the right	kysrsoze	Sep 2012	#10
If they do that they will be come as irrelevant as the Green Party in 2016	1-Old-Man	Sep 2012	#11
In the long term they will become irrelevant.	mick063	Sep 2012	#12
I disagree, but only in part	1-Old-Man	Sep 2012	#13
We are fairly close to agreement	mick063	Sep 2012	#16
Alaska has several state Republican politicians who are as you describe,	Blue_In_AK	Sep 2012	#44
It won't be 40% by 2016, or even 2014.	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#26
There are quite a few good people who've been sucked into the RW/GOP/Xtian Vortex	Mopar151	Sep 2012	#14
I know people that are lifelong republicans that are remorseful now.	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#27
I don't feel sorry for them	marions ghost	Sep 2012	#31
Hopefully they'll start by at least just not voting.	Arugula Latte	Sep 2012	#32
Shit like this makes me fear over confidence. This could all turn south.	Bucky	Sep 2012	#15
"Most of the big ad money hasn't hit the airwaves yet. "	ProSense	Sep 2012	#21
I completely disagree.	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#29
Its their own Fault!!!!!!!	mstinamotorcity2	Sep 2012	#20
I think our President is going to peel away a good and noticeable percentage of the Republican vote	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#35
Maybe the GOP should out source for their candidate!	L0oniX	Sep 2012	#25
Does this mean we'll never see Romney again?	Permanut	Sep 2012	#28
k&r...	spanone	Sep 2012	#30
Rubio, Daniels, Ryan, Christie, Haley, etc.. those are who they will push for 2016	davidn3600	Sep 2012	#33
I guess that republicans will go with a downstream candidate,	bluestate10	Sep 2012	#36
Finger pointing is one of the republicans	B Calm	Sep 2012	#37
You don't threaten the social safety net when most Americans	Th1onein	Sep 2012	#40
I have a different theory	ribrepin	Sep 2012	#42

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