I was curious...

[Joe Fields]

about where the republican party may be headed now, since it is in near shambles, so I scanned AM talk radio stations, to see what the mood is the day after. After wading through hours of pretzel logic, concerning the general campaign, I get a strong sense that the republican party will move even further right. No one that I heard that either called into a show, or was moderating a show was remotely interested in the party moving more toward the center. Many of these people thought the McCain/Palin ticket should have been reversed, and mentioned that Palin is more popular than McCain, within the republican party.

It ain't gonna be pretty.

[Richard D]

1. If they move far enough right . . .

. . . they'll fall off the edge of their flat world.

[elleng]

2. Maybe that,

and win NOTHING EVER AGAIN, or some sane ones will work on doing the right thing.

Bunches publicly disengaged from mcC, and otherwise (Hagel, for one.)

I hope for 'good old' party.

[annabanana]

3. May they end up babbling to each other in remote corners of

the deep south, the north central, and Alaska. In small angry groups they will eat each other into oblivion

[Joe Fields]

5. well, that is all well and good, but the point is, these are who Obama wants

to reach out to. They aren't the least bit interested, and will do everything they can think of to derail his presidency. It is really naive to think that he can create a spirit of bi-partisanship with the republican party.

[Cerridwen]

4. The creepy neo-con ones will probably hang on to the repub

brand with their "cold dead hands" leaving the more moderate repubs with the option of forming a 3rd party or infiltrating the Democratic Party; rebranding themselves as "conservative" Democrats. An R or a D following their name will be of little concern to those who would win at any cost.

I have a tinfoil hat. You can guess which I think they'll do and have already done.

[Orsino]

6. The Big Money that unifies them has always pulled them to the far right.

Anything to keep the rubes kneeling.

If Big Money can actually find itself outspent, once in a while, by a campaign like Obama's, that's good news. Let's legislate to lock out Big Money completely.