I honestly don't know how the GOP nominee is going to walk the party back from the edge it is on

[Perky]

currently.

The whole of conservative movement is being driven by anger and hatred stirred by Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, et al. The Tea Partiers are going to demand that the Nominee show that same fir. Problem is that that type of anger is only going to get about a third of the electorate into the polling booth and more importantly reaching for their checkbooks. It is going to get the Dems out in force to keep the Huns from the gate. and it is going to be unattractive, ugly, hyper-partisan to the muddled middle. The President is going to seem awfully sensible/rational to the middle.

[greencharlie]

1. I don't think so...

I think they'll put up a milk-toast candidate like a Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee-ish sorta candidate. They will have the militant right there in line at the ballot box NO MATTER WHO the candidate is because THEY WON'T BE THERE TO VOTE FOR THE REPUB they are there to vote AGAINST the incumbents.

Don't expect to see Palin, Newt, et al... not on the ballot but HEAVY on the speaking tour.

[Perky]

2. I don't see how someone like that gets the nomination

Not when the angry mob is looking for someone as angry as they are. Seems to me the road to the nomination is paved with tea bags.

[damntexdem]

3. There's where you're wrong in your assumptions -- it's not on an edge.

That edge is moving further away at an accelerating rate above the GOP.

[ZombieHorde]

4. The GOP can just make up any lie they chose and a very large portion of U.S. citizens will believe

the lie.

The Republicans are excellent at turning a Democrat's strength into a weakness.

[butterfly77]

5. Add David Gergen to that list...

He does his in a nuance way. HE WAS JUST ON cAMPBELL BROWN shaking his head over and over again saying when the teabaggers and republiCONS,Newt,Rush and Palin say Radical it is not being racial.

These are the old bastards who they bring on their shows who pretend that they are moderate and are not being bias in any way.They try to pretend as though we don't see or hear what is right in ALL of our faces..

Now, once something happens they come on with this same old shit and then start pleading for calm as they ramped up the lies and stirred the shit up in the first place..

[Orsino]

6. They're moving the edge along with them...

...with the help of the television.

[saltpoint]

7. The Republicans let these crazy-asses inside the castle and now they

won't go back to their remote villages in the hinterland.

The GOP aimed to do lasting damage to Democrats with social wedge issues like stem cell research and gay marriage. The folks whose anger they stoked are now out of control. They took the name "tea baggers" apparently without realizing that phrase also is a term for a certain sex act. Next they spit on publicly-elected U.S. Congressmen and call them racial and sexual epithets. One of them taunted a Parkinson's patient in a wheel chair, tossing singles at him, shouting, "If you're looking for a handout, you're on the wrong end of town." And not least, some of them threatened the lives of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Good thing a cool-browed problem-solver like Michael Steele is at the helm.