How long until the GOP finishes dying?

[yurbud]

I don't mean removed but supplanted by some other party as the other major political force in America.

Once Obama got more money from Wall St. than McCain, I think the life support was unplugged.

The rich saw the handwriting on the wall: the GOP could not cheat their way to congressional majorities and control of the White House anymore since the minority population had grown too much and even more fatal, young whites are less afraid of gays and minorities than their parents and grandparents.

When the people old enough to fondly remember Jim Crow are mostly gone, the GOP will die with them.

But I'm wondering when other people think it will happen.

[bobbolink]

1. The DEMS screw up health care, and it's the DEMS that will be dying.

It will secure the RW for at least a generation to come.

Fuck you, Blue Cross Dogs!

Grow a spine, Obama!

[Rex]

2. They won't go, ultra wealthy RWingers will keep it together.

Granted the guts are gone and there will never be a backbone again. Now they are reduced to the status of irrational loonies - kinda like Dems getting labels spineless back in the day. The GOP brand is gone, just the thought really remains.

[yurbud]

9. because they are reduced to loonies, the financial elite parasite has already changed hosts

to the Democrats.

They want to retain power not prove ideological points. Obama has largely continued the economic policies and even chose the same scum GOP would use to run his economic team, showing that the tapeworm is already firmly planted in a new digestive tract.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Death Spiral in FULL ON MODE....accelerating even as last throes reveal massive shortcomings

The Republicans have done it to themselves: Capped both feet, knees, elbows, fingers, etc. through the use of Bullyism, deciet, arrogance, distortion, etc.

Negative Traits have their price....loss of cred and cofidence among those astute and semi astute.

Their track record is dismal, and by the looks of things..., unable to pretty up/white wash/change.

The Peeps have had enough of Level One BS...the small moot shit...

Peeps are looking for solutions and answers...the real kind...non of which the GOP has offered of late that is viable.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Not until the Dems in DC behave like winners.

[bobbolink]

6. Ding! Ding! Ding! We havea winner!

Right on target.

Which means, judging by what we're seeing now, they will NEVER die!

[Wapsie B]

8. And stop trying to appease the losers.

[asjr]

5. We may have heard the death rattle but the

Republican dirty tricks are still in their bag.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. That rattle may just be Rush's dried-up nuts swaying in the breeze.

The GOP is far from dead, thanks in part to Dems treating them as partners instead of a bunch of defeated losers.

[TahitiNut]

7. Revenge of the Whigs. (The sequel.)

:dunce:

Brain-dead for thirty years, they're nothing but the undead anyway. :shrug: Anyone got a wooden stake?

[Warpy]

10. The Hamiltonian parties in this country have been stable

only while they've remained small. Once they've made a deal with the various devils to increase their number and seize power, they become unstable. This happened to the Federalists and then the Whigs and now it's happening to the GOP.

However, I'm not counting them out completely. The Democrats could blow it completely and throw power back to the Republicans in 2010 by failing to deal with health care, AGAIN.

I don't think Congress realizes just how angry the public is about their constant stalling and whinging about costs. The non system we have is killing us and I think most people know someone who was either stalled to death or financially ruined when the insurance company decided to cheat them out of what they paid for.

If they don't get the message and fail us once again, I can see a tremendous backlash mostly against the Democrats, who had the numbers and the presidency and a golden opportunity to do the right thing.

If our party can't get it together to reform this vicious system, then they might be the ones who will disappear.

I'm not kidding about this.

[yurbud]

15. the public has figured out that it's not just stalling and whining--it's bald-faced corruption

When Obama tried to appoint Daschle to HHS, the problem wasn't his taxes it was how he made the money the taxes weren't paid on--as a whore for the insurance industry. No one thinks the blue dogs are acting on principle, they are meat puppets for the wealthy and nothing more.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. If a Democrat wins the White House in 2016 that will be then end.

Right now they only endured losses in two election cycles over 3 years, even though losses were significant.

Losing the Presidency over 3 terms, if the congressional majorities are maintained, will be the death knell. No one will be interested in throwing money at the GOP if they can't win any elections or power beyond local Southern States with their rube/birther coalition, now matter how ideologically simpatico they are with the GOP.

No one will tolerate losing elections like that. There is not point in having a political party if you can't win enough seats to influence shit. If that happens the Religious Right will be dropped like a bad habit regardless of the short term consequences, and even then it still may be too late, the GOP may go away and the new opposition may be formed from the Blue Dog types aligning with the former GOP.

The money interests will go towards influencing and corrupting the right part of the Democrats, which they are already doing in earnest.

[Orsino]

12. Yes, Every swing of the pendulum feels like it's the last, doesn't it?

They'll be back in power soon, barring some major Dem accomplishments. There's too much money waiting to buy the GOP as soon as the Democratic Party returns to running rich old white men against their rich old white men.

[Strong Atheist]

14. By the next election, and while that is GREAT for us, I am not in favor

of a one party system. I think over time one party systems lead to corruption... :hide: