SALON: The GOP on the verge of imploding

[L. Coyote]

Sidney Blumenthal
The GOP on the verge of imploding
A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat.
Pages 1 2 3 4 - http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/24/blumenthal_death/

April 24, 2008 | On May 3, 2007, ten Republican candidates aspiring to succeed George W. Bush as president debated at the Ronald W. Reagan Library, where they mentioned Reagan 21 times and Bush not once. By raising the icon of Reagan, they hoped to dispel the shadow of Bush. Reagan himself had often invoked magic ........

[Warpy]

1. I sincerely hope that happens at some point

Right now, there are big cracks in the Reagan coalition among the super rich, the super stupid, the super greedy, and the super religious. The religious realize they're not serious about making women barefoot and constantly pregnant. The rich realize half their wealth has gone with the fall in the dollar. The greedy are starting to realize it's a rigged game and they're not the house. About all they have left are the stupid, and even they are starting to realize in their reptilian brains that Stupid is getting them killed in his imperial wars.

I fully expect this to be the last election wherein the Reagan coalition holds. I fully expect the Dispensationalists to form their own splinter party in time for the next presidential election, since they consider themselves to be the most deeply wronged group.

I just hope I am right. That party needs to be out of power long enough for all the crazies to die off.

[L. Coyote]

2. Well stated. I think it happened already, and the blowback hits in NOV.

[Bozita]

8. Well done, Warpy.

[Bozita]

3. Last Friday's Detroit News headline article: "Michigan GOP finds itself in debt"

Page 1A, above the fold.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080418/...

Friday, April 18, 2008
Michigan GOP finds itself in debt

$240,000 deficit, fundraising difficulties threaten party's ability to compete in fall

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Michigan Republican activists are worried that their state party, heading into an intensive and expensive 2008 campaign, is in debt and failing to raise the money it needs to be competitive this fall.

The combination of a $240,000 debt and a harsh fundraising environment for Republicans is expected to be the topic of debate this weekend, when the state GOP's budget and central committees meet in Lansing.

"Basically, we're close to a quarter of a million dollars in debt, and this should be a time we're raising money and not spending it," said Bill Beddoes of Allen Park, the party's 14th Congressional District chairman. "It's very disturbing."

The financial picture could be key to a list of crucial races up and down the ticket -- from the presidential race in what is expected to be a battleground state, to GOP hopes of recapturing control of the Michigan House.

more...

[kentuck]

4. You can bet the corporate media will do everything they can do...

to save the GOP. Once we realize that the corporate media is a branch of the GOP, the better for all of us.

[riderinthestorm]

5. I wish. But I wouldn't bet on it.

The Rethugs have co-opted major portions of the media, financial markets, and voting technology. When I read stories like this, I can't help but see them as a sort of smoke-screen to obscure the fact that the powerbrokers for the GOP are moving full steam ahead in their fascist/oligarchic plans for the US. It's in their interest to try to spin this election as "close" and that the GOP is in perilous shape - it's far easier to steal elections when they are (perceived of as) close.

We buy into this at our peril imo.

[L. Coyote]

7. Good point. BUT, they still need votes to continue in power, and they know it

They know what huge trouble they are in. Just look at the primary voting.

We have a new two party system, Hillary and Barack!! :rofl:

[ColbertWatcher]

6. They always talk doom and gloom...

...just to energize their base of victims.

The GOP is nothing without their victim complex.