Painting themselves into a corner

[SoonerPride]

The Republicans have managed to reduce themselves into a party of right wing wackos, extremists, racists, and religious fundamentalists.

Today the clarion call rang out from the punditocracy that their loss was due to the moderates in their midst. They weren't right wingy and fundie enough. Really. I'm not kidding.

The sober minded small government intellectuals, those "Georgetown cocktail party set" elites that McCain derided only weeks ago, have fled for higher ground. Gone are the Wills, Powells, Nixons, and Reagans from their rabble.

They've managed to reduce their coast to coast majority they enjoyed under St. Reagan to a party that basically resembles the aftermath of the Civil War. They no longer have national appeal.

With the NE long gone, the far west gone, and the middle redness getting severed by New Mexico and Colorado, the red keeps shrinking. It is predicted that by 2012, the rise of Hispanic Americans will put Texas in the battleground category. It may well go blue in as little as four years.

Then what?

They've painted themselves more or less into the SE corner of the US map.

The south shall not rise again.