I don't know what is going to happen with the former Grand Old Party. The problem with it is that it is currently dominated by religious folks who will not compromise on social issues and tax cut zealots who will not compromise on budet issues. And so the few moderates left are being outed.
By putting up McCain, one of the few more moderate voices (and even he was caving hard to the right to get the nomination) in a year when any Republican would have had a very tough time winning, the purists got a sacrificial lamb moderate with whom they could blame the ills of the party.
I expect them to put up a charismatic but very right wing candidate in 2012, someone like Palin. And unless the economy is still in the pits, that hard right candidate will be crushed. That will force a catharsis in the Republican party in which they may have to accept a more compromising view in order to survive as a major force in the political sphere.
Because I don't see a great religious right revival of the scope to propel them back, and while the boomers loved their tax cuts when they were earning, as they retire they are not going to support candidates who talk about cutting their retirement benefits. Eventually the GOP is going to have to adapt to these conditions or become a permanent minority.
Of course, if the economy still sucks, all bets are off. There is a reason the Murdoch outlets are doing the best they can to undermine confidence and economic growth.
Yeah with you guys for competition, we'll have a really tough time I can see. Most of the drivel that you posted here is straight off of the left wing blogosphere, and you people are sadly stereotyping what you think of as the 'GOP' completely and entirely wrong. It's going to be your fatal mistake, that is my prediction.
I didn't get anything off the blogosphere, I created it myself. But other than your generalizations, is there anything specifically in my opinion do you contest is inaccurate? What? That the baby boomers will want there benes and vote against cutting them? That the nation would go religious right enough to make up the difference? The economy will have an impact?