Time to become a Republican?

[Meldread]

I think it was pretty predictable that the Republican Party would implode after this election. Yet, to a liberal like myself to actually see it happen it pleases me beyond words. Finally, at long last, America has rejected their twisted and harmful ideology.

But we all know they'll be back. It's just a matter of how they re-invent themselves. Actually, it's somewhat exciting. I hold a slim hope that the Republican Party will swing to the left instead of swinging further to the right. I wonder if it'd be a good idea to switch parties and become a Republican? There is a moderate wing of the Republican Party, and there are many young Republican's who even share some of our social values. I think it would be great to "move" their party to the left, allowing the Democratic Party to shift leftward as well. Even if the idea were to fail, creating a new wing of the party - a new faction that they'd have to appease - would help keep them in the minority for decades to come.

I wonder if anyone has considered doing this?

[Ganja Ninja]

1. I'd rather cut my throat. n/t

[Meldread]

3. LOL.

Yeah, I don't think I could stand most of them. Although, I love watching them implode and turn on each other. I love the infighting, and I would like to think of ways of keeping them doing battle for decades to come.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. I get enough of them just occasionally sewer diving at Freerepublic.

I much rather see them battling for the number 2 political party with Libertarians. That would be fun to watch.

[Amonester]

2. considered doing this for about 1.23 seconds...

gave up when realizing once again that most of them r mentally ill to the core and will never recover

[dipsydoodle]

5. 1.23 seconds

That long ? :rofl:

[Amonester]

9. yes, it was a 1,230,000,000 nanoseconds long period of hope for

change

I won't get fooled again :rofl:


I wanna add that I support Universal Health Care for them too, though.

[AndyA]

4. I would not want to be identified with the Republican Party. New, reinvented, old, or otherwise.

They are nasty, horrible, awful people. They have to be in order to believe and promote the things they do.

I don't care if they swing right, left, or swing too high and fly off the swing set! They just need to go away, but I know they'll transform and make an attempt to come back. They'll be the "new" Republican Party.

And that's why Obama's Administration MUST PROSECUTE Bush/Cheney for their crimes. They MUST air all the dirty laundry, reveal all the nasty policies that go against the American way of life and our Constitution.

The Democrats must point out that it's the SAME Republicans who now say they've changed. And the Dems must remind Americans AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN what the GOP has done during the Bush years.

This will (Tom) delay their come back. (Pardon the pun.)

[Buzz Clik]

6. Considering the dissatisfaction with Obama by many here, I think we'll see a big movement to the GOP

I, for one, will be glad to see them go.

[Richardo]

8. I actually saw a thread over the weekend that said Obama 'disappoints at every turn'

This was FIVE DAYS after the election :crazy:

DU is not the place for reasoned political discourse, that's fer sure.

[Buzz Clik]

11. Indeed. Considering that the only "turn" Obama made was been getting elected.

[Ian David]

10. Unless you can get a "critical mass" of 5th Columnists to all go to the same Repuke caucus with you

... then, no.

[dysfunctional press]

12. never.

never never never never never...

[LeftishBrit]

13. I see the point...

countries often work best when they have a 2-party or multi-party system but the conservatives are not extreme. Several Europaean countries have worked well on bipartisanship - the sort of bipartisanship where BOTH (or, in a multiparty system, all main) parties support universal healthcare, some form of welfare state, diplomacy-based foreign policy, and generally the sort of things that would be called ultraliberal or 'socialist' in recent American politics. And I am aware that America has had some good liberal Republicans from time to time.

However, despite the general theoretical and practical attractions of moving the party system to the left, I personally will pass on volunteering to become an infiltrator in the Conservative, or other right-of-centre, party!