The coming divorce of the Republican party

[SoonerPride]

Last night sealed their fate.

A divorce is coming.

The country club Republicans will divorce the Dixie Crat fundamentalist Christian wing once and for all.

John McCain wanted to be a maverick. He wanted to select Lieberman. He wanted to move the party to the middle, to appeal to independents, in short, to win.

But he was told what to do. He is a Prisoner of W. They needed money and votes. They needed to appeal to the base.

And after that "speech" by VP candidate Sarah Palin last night, everyone can see exactly how base they are.

It drew lots of hoots and hollers from their rabid fundamentalist ilk. But they did not appeal to middle America.

They will now lose and lose badly.

The Republican party will schism. The last gasp of the theocrats will be a death rattle throughout the fall campaign.

The end of an era is before us.

The Republican party is getting a divorce.

[kwolf68]

1. The coalition

Of free market Libertarians and theocrats is starting to crack. Not because these people are leaving, but because moderates don't like the extreme and unrealistic positions of either.

The Libertarians are diametrically opposed to the flat earthers.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. The Same Cleavage Exists Within The Dixiecrats

Those DU'ers from outside the former Confederacy may want to think of the Dixiecrats as being a monolithic bloc, but they share similar divisions with the rest of the GOP.

While the southern Republican Party has tended to be much more socially conservative (ie reactionary) than its Northern counterparts, the religious conservatives that started to come in during the 1980's are distinct from the earlier ones.

I think that the GOP is likely to survive the "divorce" between Northeastern and Midwestern "country club" conservatives and the Dixiecrat bloc that now has firm control of the GOP's national machinery.

But it'll be a party increasingly limited to the former Confederacy (Though Virginia may be seceding), Oklahoma, and the Great Basin states.

To paraphrase Zell (turncoat) Miller, the Republican Party is likely to become a national party, no more.

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