One of these days real soon now we're gonna have the Republican Party shrunk

[Jackpine Radical]

down to the point where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Damn--I wonder how I came up with that imagery?

[supernova]

1. I'd be totally happy

if we wound up with less than 10 in the house and maybe 5 or less in the Senate for the next 30 or so years.

[mcctatas]

2. Doh!!!

I thought you meant we were taking them in for group therapy ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Not on your fucken life.

I'd rather run a Borderline Personality Disorder group. Come to think of it, it would be about the same thing.

[Joe the Liberal]

3. One can only hope. n/t

[Historic NY]

5. Make sure you fill the tub good so when the drain plug is pulled..

they get sucked away for good.

[BlooInBloo]

6. (shrug) They freely chose to make themselves just a regional party.

[PBS Poll-435]

7. This guy?

[windbreeze]

8. now now...taking your talking points from Grover Nordquist 'eh? n/t

[FLyellowdog]

9. I misread your post as "Republican Skunk". My bad.

Though if the stench fits....yada yada yada.

[xfundy]

10. Don't soil the tub.

go ahead and put them in the toilet, flush, then light a match. Pewww!

[Flabbergasted]

11. I'm thinking the same thing.....

The GOP is done for a decade.....

Granted we win this time (bar fraud, doubtful).....I believe the GOP is on a slide that will continue for a decade.

I say fuckem. No sympathy from me.

My thinking is the GOP would have been better to ride things out without the race baiting and nastiness. IOW lose with grace, take the high road, and come back with some credibility in 12 (granted we win, no not a definite). The GOP should already be working on reforming the party and counting on losing: move their electorate left.

I think the talking points of past elections have lost their effectiveness and using them again have more or less killed them. In fact the word socialism may make a comeback just because the unpopular GOP used the meme. Few people but the faithful believe Obama will raise taxes.

[Blecht]

12. Considering that we're coming up on 3 decades since ...

... the lunatic fringe of the Right in this country was empowered by the Republican party, it's long overdue.

I'm so sick of the America where the small-minded can smugly make reprehensible bigoted comments without fear of being called out on them -- where people like Rush Limbaugh are on the radio giving validation to the ugliest irrational human emotions.

I look forward to seeing them all being pushed back to the fringe where they belong.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. The only thing that bothers me is my recollection of having discussions like this

right after Nixon resigned. We thought we were good for 30 years then too, but all we got was Carter's one term, and then there was Reagan.

[specialed]

14. Five years ago...the republicans thought they had a permanent majority...

Never take it for granted. Always be careful and mindful of the public trust.