Could this be....

[loyalkydem]

the end of the republican party? Could this be the day where anyone with an R in their name gets their butts kicked?

Post your thoughts about this

[classof56]

1. One can only hope! n/t

[MazeRat7]

2. Oh hell no, the thugs will be a thorn in my side until the day I die.... n/t

[niyad]

3. one can only hope!

this is my daily comment to the local gop headquarters: I fervently hope that on Nov 5, every single person involved in the gop campaigns across the country is unemployed, forced to live in the poverty they have helped to create for so many, in the obscurity so richly merited, and shunned by all civilized society.

[jobycom]

4. No. But it could be the end of the BushCo/Reagan/PNAC chapter of it.

One can almost dare to hope. However, I'm still waiting on the polls to close before I pop the champagne. Though the champagne is already on ice.

[Crazy Dave]

5. I hope we get the 60 in the senate

I can't believe Ted Stevens still has a chance to win in the same state that gave us Palin. If he gets re-elected up there I want everybody to quit picking on Florida.

[CPschem]

6. I think it's the end of a unified GOP

"Thinking" conservatives are leaving the party fast. All that remain will be the bigots, xenophobes, and proud, zealous members of the "me first" crowd.

[Burma Jones]

7. No No No No

One Party Systems stink on ice.

Hopefully this will consign the frothing at the mouth no-necks to eternal exile and we can get back to arguing with sane Republicans about the degree to which the Government should guarantee public services.

[gratuitous]

8. They were talking on the Today Show

My personal schedule allows me to catch the opening segment on Today. Matt Lauer was talking with Chuck Todd about the election, and it seemed to me that they were finally letting the mask slip. The fact that Democrats are on their way to a crushing victory of historic proportions was a given to their conversation. Todd said that if Chris Shays loses his race, then all of New England would have Democrats in Congress, and the Republican party was in danger of becoming merely a regional party based in the South.

Lauer and Todd went back and forth about key states to watch, but Todd was basically saying that McCain had to roll snake eyes six or seven times in a row to win (or to get within stealable range of winning). Lauer tried to pin Todd down, and Todd finally allowed that it was inside the universe of possible outcomes that Obama could win the popular vote by 5 or 6 million and McCain could still take the Electoral College votes, but he didn't think that was very likely judged on his tone and body language.

Will it be the end of the Republican party? Probably not. I think there are still some intelligent Republicans around, but they are going to have to overcome decades of courting the haters, bigots, racists, misogynists, homophobes and various other nutjobs. Because when the results come in, about all the GOP is going to have remaining are the True Believer Know Nothings.