As GOP civil war rages, Democrats look to benefit

[Peacetrain]

heh heh heh heh heh heh heh....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_republican_fight


WASHINGTON – A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul. And the Democrats hope to benefit.

The latest examples of conservative insurgents' clout came Tuesday at opposite ends of the country. In Florida, political newcomer Rick Scott beat longtime congressman and state Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. And in Alaska, tea party activists and Sarah Palin pushed Sen. Lisa Murkowski to the brink of defeat, depending on absentee ballot counts in her race against outsider Joe Miller.

The GOP is likely to survive its bitter intraparty battles in such states as Alaska and Utah, even if voters oust veteran senators in both. But tea party-backed candidates might be a godsend to desperate Democrats elsewhere — in Nevada, Florida and perhaps Kentucky, where the Democrats portray GOP nominees as too extreme for their states.

[AlinPA]

1. The republicans will be in lockstep in October, goose-stepping to the election

with their "righter-than-thou conservatives" and teabaggers leading the way. The republicans close ranks as the election nears.

[old mark]

2. OK - my prediction...Mitt will probably be the GOP candidate in 2012...the RWers

will hate it because they think he is a "liberal", and run their own candidate/3rd party...maybe more than one of each. They will permanently damage the GOP, maybe eventually kill it and form several smaller RW parties trying to out-crazy each other but occasionally trying to work together.

I think the GOP is pretty much doomed either way.
I believe they do not expect to win in '12, but there will be many GOP and other RW candidates for 2016. It would be great if we could have a very solid candidate for 2016, but hey, we're Democrats and we don't think that far ahead nor do we agree on anything, so I don't know how we will do.

Just my forecasts and predictions.

mark

[elleng]

3. and don't they dislike his 'Mormon?'

Good news for us, eh?

[old mark]

4. Certainly - some of the RWers don't consider mormons to be christians at all...nt

[TlalocW]

5. The GOP political machine can ignore the Mormon in him

And even the higher-ups in the religiously-insane part of the GOP will bend over backwards telling their flocks that for some reason it's okay this time to elect a member of a religion they've long called a cult, but that might be a hard sale with the common religiously-insane man on the street as well as his local pastor.

And if Mittens does get the nod, unless he can put more fire in his belly and swing REALLY hard right, the tea-baggers aren't going to be too impressed with him either.

TlalocW

[old mark]

8. We agree...The really right already think Mitt is a liberal, like McCain...

and a Mormon liberal would be too much for them. The GOP seems to think that people don't like them because they are not "pure conservative" enough, and when they lose, go to the right. I really think the extreme right will split from the GOP over the elections in November and in 2012.

mark

[craigmatic]

7. If they nominate romney their hate for Obama will unite them.

[craigmatic]

6. Dems would benefit but I don't think the nominees are good enough.

Especially in Alaska, Kentucky, and Florida.

[catgirl]

9. Perhaps Snowe and/or Collins will switch parties?

I'm sure they must be pretty disgusted with the teabagger kiss ass party going on and
their looney leaders getting more and more looney. In the end, moderate repubs will
be the ones to suffer from their ever changing party.