TIME cover story

[question everything]

Apologies if already posted



http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1896588,00.html

These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian — in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to "regain our status as a national party" and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. John McCain's campaign manager recently described his party as basically extinct on the West Coast, nearly extinct in the Northeast and endangered in the Mountain West and Southwest.

[sarge43]

1. I'd say it is extinct in the Northeast.

When the Republicans lost their majority in the NH state house, stick a fork in them; they're done.

[Muttocracy]

3. the Northeastern sub-species has been on the way out for a long time! nt

[sarge43]

5. True. When they throw the moderates out of the party, they took the NE with them. n/t

[MgtPA]

10. The Northeast is a great place to live - for the most part, no wildfires, floods, earthquakes, ...

...tornados, mudslides, hurricanes, and now - no Republicans!

[sarge43]

11. There is the occasional ice storm and black flies the size of 747s, but

yes, it's not a bad place to live. We still have Republicans, but they're so pissed at the party's ideologues and radicals the Dems are starting to look better and better to them.

[ccharles000]

19. Dems have the house

Democratic-224 Republican-175

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives

[sarge43]

26. The Dems have all of the NH state gov't.

November 2010, NH will be a lovely blue across the board. The Repubs don't have anyone who can go toe to toe with either Lynch or Hodes for Jugghead's senate seat.

About all they have left is a handful of selectmen and mayors.

[FrenchieCat]

2. If they are such an endangered species, how come I keep hearing from them and about them?

I'd like to see them made instinct...and at the rate the media is going, it appears that they will be protecting this endangered species for some time.

[hootinholler]

9. Pssst...

Hey Frenchie, over here. Not to be an English Nazi, but, I think I know what you mean and the word is extinct. Instinct is apparently prewired behavior in animals. Extinct means they no longer exist.

I'm so with you on the sentiment.

-Hoot

[FrenchieCat]

16. Yes, it is extinct that I meant, thank you!

[sarge43]

14. The morality wounded will often scream in pain and fear. n/t

[northofdenali]

4. The louder they yell.........

the farther - and hareder - they fall.

[sarah553807]

6. The Rocky Mountain west looks to be going bluer and bluer each election

I think it's safe to say the only part the republicans can keep safe to them now is the deep south and the bible belt states(wyoming,kansas,nebraska)

[Milspec]

12. Don't forget Oklahoma

The culture shock of moving here from Los Angeles has been hard but there are some progressives here in Tulsa.
Welcome to DU Sarah

[sarah553807]

20. ouch

i'm sorry.....

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. And they are unwanted in the midwest too

LOL

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R

:kick:

[bleever]

13. People viewing the GOP at a museum in the future:

"Look how tiny it was when it died."

[merh]

15. Goposaur

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5564214

[Politicalboi]

17. That's cool

It fits them.

[merh]

18. Credit where credit is due

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/29/725689/-The-Goposaur

[potone]

21. goody, goody, goody, goody, goody!!!

:)

[cbc5g]

22. They alligned themselves with extremist christian viewpoints

It was inevitable to be a failure, especially after the disaster which was the Bush administration. Americans want science and pragmatism to govern.

[davidpdx]

23. Thanks for posting this

I'll be reading it.

[polichick]

24. The first endangered species I don't care about protecting!

[question everything]

27. They probably would not, too

Don't they believe in "survival of the fittest," meaning no government programs to help the old, the sick and the poor?

Oops, that a Darwinian term... Like everything else, the accept evolution when it fits their needs and reject it on different occasions.

[otohara]

25. Media Working Overtime to Revive This Endangered Species

haven't seen this kind of push since they pushed for the Iraq invasion.

[SoCalDem]

28. another photo of the GOP rebuilding its base