Is Another Historic Re-Alignment In The Cards?

[ruggerson]

I don't want to get too hopeful, but the history of US politics shows quite clearly that a forty year cycle (starting in 1968 with Nixon) of one party ascendancy usually is one that is getting VERY long in the tooth.

We might be on the verge of enormous change in this country. And we might be at the very beginning of riding that wave.

[Stephanie]

1. Well they are definitely overreaching - that has to backfire

They are so full of hubris, so drunk with power, so blind with rage, it has to turn around on them.

[GainesT1958]

2. Well, if they keep pulling stunts like this one...

It could well be an even bigger sea change than you or I think! :D

:kick:

B-)

[MissWaverly]

4. I'd settle for a few jellyfish on the beach

hoping that some of the rotten bunch get left on the beach

[Old and In the Way]

3. At some point, moderate Republicans/Conservatives have to

decide....do they stay with a Republican Party that is permutating into an unprincipled, Talibanistic fascist-theocracy or will they join the sane Democrats who obviously can't be expected to join them. It's that simple. They need to jump...not us.

[janx]

6. Many of them already have. They might not have registered

Democrat yet, but a lot have gone to unaffiliated or independent status. Both parties are changing. This time in our history is a tumultuous one.

[seafan]

8. Agreed. The moderate republicans' moment of reckoning is here.

They will either have to become one of the raging, bloodthirsty, warmaking, greed-driven, theocratic zealots....

or, they will want to survive to make a better planet like the rest of us are fighting for.

[sharonking21]

5. It happened here . . .

I live in Austin Texas. We were a Republican county (Travis County) for two election cycles, but this time the moderates no longer trusted Bush (we know him all too well here in Austin) and we became a blue county in a veritable sea of red.

So, there's a chance anyway....

[Career Prole]

9. Here's to hopin' it spreads...

...and welcome to DU, Sharon! :hi:

[sharonking21]

13. Thank You

I finally got up the gumption and the time to learn a little bit about HTML and how the blogs worked. Have been meaning to do this for a long time, but things got crazy for the year before the election. Then I collapsed for a while and then actually did some non-political things like:

1. Wash underwear.
2. Check to see if still have grandchildren.
3. Balance my checkbook after a 6-month hiatus (Oh, doom and gloom; 'twas a book with a tragic ending).

[Career Prole]

14. LOL! That's a riot!

Thanks for the chuckle!
The night before payday I enter "0" for the balance in my checkbook, and if the law doesn't pick me up by Monday I pat myself on the back for getting it right yet again. ;)

[NV Whino]

12. Welcome to DU

And I hope there will be more "ship jumpers" to follow. The repugnants have truly jumped of the deep end, leaving the strong, conservative core of the party stranded.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. Welcome to DU!

I'm about 50 miles NW of you! (Llano County)

Be sure to check out the Texas forum. :)

[finecraft]

7. This from my Republican boss today:

"I'm mad that conservatives are all labeled now as Evangelicals. I'm a religious person....but those fundamentalists are off their rockers! I wish the moderate Republicans would say something to let everyone know we're not all crazy zealots! I'm telling you, unless the moderates regain some kind of control and make those religious wackos crawl back under the rock they came from, the GOP is not getting another dime from me!"

My response: "What turnip truck did you fall off of? THERE ARE NO MODERATE REPUBLICANS ANYMORE! So explain to me again why you continue to vote Republican all the time? You vote these people into office because they are "Republican", not me, so don't whine to me about your party being hijacked by nut cases and whack jobs."

I think this Schiavo thing pushed a lot of "moderate" Republicans over the edge and opened their eyes to how ghastly their party has become.

[NYCGirl]

10. From your lips to God's ears, as they say. NT

[sexybomber]

11. I sincerely hope you're right. (n/t)