Republican Party on the wane?

[Patchuli]

Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party
by David W. Orr

Following the election of 2004, much has been made of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party, even its possible end. But it has escaped the notice of our blow-dry television pundits and political observers alike that the Republican Party, in the full blush of triumph in control of all the branches of government and large sections of the media, stands on the edge of certain extinction. The reasons grow daily more evident. Over the past three decades, the moderate, business-oriented party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower was captured by its extreme right-wing thereby becoming a party dominated by ideologues, increasingly divorced from unmovable facts. But no organization, political party, or nation can long survive by ignoring realities of ecology, social justice, law, economics, and true security. Sooner or later, it will step off the proverbial curb into onrushing traffic of events, forces, and trends that it refused to see. (continue w/link)

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0112-36.htm

[Clark2008]

1. You would think so, but, with the punditry so far up the Republicans'

asses, it may take some real hardship before people realize that television isn't reality and their lives actually DO suck.

[Xipe Totec]

2. It's not a party

Its more of a feeding frenzy. The budget surplus and Social Security were chum in the water. The surplus is gone now and when Social Security disappears, they'll disband like a school of piranhas after the feast.

[BlueManDude]

9. it's a cult.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Or possibly a culture, as slime in a petri dish

[Inland]

3. Hope speaking against reason, experience

It isn't preordained that the power falls out of the hands of the republican/conservative/corporate elites that control the country. People want to pretend it is to justify failing to come to grips with failure, for engaging in schismatic infighting, and worst of all, to pretend that failure is actually the basis for victory. Golly, folks, you just watched the worst president ever stumble through four awful years, and he still kicked the shit out of us, and our reaction is to fall apart. Not only have the republicans been given plenty of rope to hang themselves, they actually put it around their neck, pulled the lever and the platform dropped. And instead of dying, they are more firmly in power than ever.

Failure isn't the basis for eventually coming to power. If that were so, the Whigs would be staging a comeback. Failure is just failure, and there isn't any substitute for power. Anybody who tells us that "sooner or later" the republicans will volunteer to self destruct and that a better class of people will be begged to take over is leaving in a dream land.

[imenja]

5. the ugly truth

It's a tough message for many to accept, but you're right. We need to get our act together.

[imenja]

4. we can't wait for them to self-destruct

That would be a major mistake. Our strategy needs to assume they are strong and will continue to be so. Democrats have always made the mistake of underestimating our opposition. We need to focus on strengthening our own party so that we can regain a solid majority. We cannot wait for them to self-destruct.

[JAbuchan08]

6. Only in the "hearts and minds" of Americans

the "facts on the ground" say otherwise.

[SheilaT]

7. Keep in mind that the last time

the Republicans were riding this high was the election of 1928.

[pbartch]

8. If the Repukes were "on the Wane" then Kerry would be the President

and not that evil Chimp.

[Patchuli]

14. "Repukes" aren't above cheating

and cheat they did. Touchscreens and electronic paperless
voting need to go and that should be our focus for the next
round. Persons with 'conflicts of interest' (i.e., Blackwell,
Harris) need to be out of the picture and private companies
need to be taken out of the voting arena altogether.

Remember, the Red Sox won and so DID Kerry.

Not to get all superstitious or anything...

[LisaLynne]

10. Actually, this is probably pretty likely, however ...

I just didn't feel like going through the social and economic heck we're obviously going to have to while it happens. I was hoping people would wake up before that and take the power away from them. Still, time and progress marches on. The thing a lot of people seem to have trouble dealing with is that it doesn't always marching at the speed of a week, a year, or even our lifetime.

[pretzel4gore]

11. don't forget, these guys are criminals

they mihop'ed 911...no kidding. they been planning takeover of USA for years....and no way they let routine politics usurp their power (their very lives are at stake)...they've committed themselves to establishing a 'new order' and they have no choice but press on....
the real losers are the bush supporters....vast numbers who are gonna suffer self inflicted screwing by dick and co....bloody sodomites (lol)

[area51]

13. nazi party waning

It would explain why they keep having to cheat/vote-steal to hold on to power.


"Prosperity is just around the corner." -- Herbert Hoover
"The economy has turned a corner." -- GW Bush

Herbert Hoover = GW Bush

Neither man cared about the Depression their economic policies created.

[LynnTheDem]

15. I think Orr is 100% correct; the Republican Party is making itself extinct

THANK GOD.