The Moribund GOP.....

[nat4900]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

 

[Derideo_Te]

The GOP has set course for political irrelevance. If they persist on that course they will ultimately reach the state of oblivion and be replaced with another party entirely. That won't be the Tea Party because they are ones steering the GOP towards irrelevance right now.

Posturing and pandering to the shrinking white extreme right demographic makes for great political theater and it does raise cash in the post Citizens United Libertarian Utopia to come.

However the counter measure is the unstoppable tide of the demographic shift. Without correcting course to allow for that tide the GOP will founder on the rocks of failed rigid economic and social dogma.

The demographic shift will swamp the GOP one way or another. It is entirely possible that control of the helm may be wrested from the aging and enfeebled grip of the extremist bigots before it reaches oblivion. My assumption is that is the most likely outcome.

However the damage to the GOP itself might be irreparable by that point and it might be cheaper and easier to make a clean break and start afresh with a new genuine conservative party that embraces the America of it's third century and builds anew atop the ashes and detritus of the old.

Either way the GOP as we know it today will be gone in a decade, or two at the outside. It has no viable future as it stands. It is nothing but a hollow shell echoing with the angry demands of political dinosaurs who refuse to adapt so they are doomed to extinction.

 

[nat4900]

The GOP has set course for political irrelevance. If they persist on that course they will ultimately reach the state of oblivion and be replaced with another party entirely. That won't be the Tea Party because they are ones steering the GOP towards irrelevance right now.

Posturing and pandering to the shrinking white extreme right demographic makes for great political theater and it does raise cash in the post Citizens United Libertarian Utopia to come.

However the counter measure is the unstoppable tide of the demographic shift. Without correcting course to allow for that tide the GOP will founder on the rocks of failed rigid economic and social dogma.

The demographic shift will swamp the GOP one way or another. It is entirely possible that control of the helm may be wrested from the aging and enfeebled grip of the extremist bigots before it reaches oblivion. My assumption is that is the most likely outcome.

However the damage to the GOP itself might be irreparable by that point and it might be cheaper and easier to make a clean break and start afresh with a new genuine conservative party that embraces the America of it's third century and builds anew atop the ashes and detritus of the old.

Either way the GOP as we know it today will be gone in a decade, or two at the outside. It has no viable future as it stands. It is nothing but a hollow shell echoing with the angry demands of political dinosaurs who refuse to adapt so they are doomed to extinction.

Very well stated....really, very well stated......and oh so darn true.

Actually, like a phoenix, I think that there will be a sane group of republicans who will realize that the future for the party must entail a severance from the current ideologues in power and leadership positions......Of course, it will take serious losses by the republicans to begin rejecting these current candidates who cater stupidly to a dwindling minority of xenophobes.....and those losses, as you state, will be witnessed in the next couple of decades.

 

[The Rabbi]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

The desperation is strong here.
The GOP controls the majority of governorships. The GOP controls the majority of state legislatures. The GOP controls the House. The GOP controls the Senate.
For a moribund party they seem to control most of government. The Democrats are the endangered ones here. They are so bad off they can put forth ONE candidate with a hope of winning. And she wont.

 

[tinydancer]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

Hispanic isn't a race. Latino isn't a race. And to the dismay of many liberals most Hispanic or Latino voters identify themselves as caucasian.

 

[Derideo_Te]

What the GOP currently controls is based upon gerrymandering and the aging extreme white rightwing.

They are being supplanted by the new demographic and the next census will reflect the new demographic shift and nullify the gerrymandering to a large degree. At most you have 2 decades. Probably less since Texas will be a purple state in the coming presidential elections.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

The GOP will not be retaking the White House for a long, long time - if ever. The most constructive thing they can do is accept this and work with it.

 

[percysunshine]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

.
These Catholic conservative Latinos?

Be careful what you wish for....

.

 

[The Rabbi]

The GOP will not be retaking the White House for a long, long time - if ever. The most constructive thing they can do is accept this and work with it.

LOL! Yeah, the GOP, which controls the Senate, the House,the majority of governorships and the majority of state legislatures just can't win elections. Fact!

 

[Derideo_Te]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

Hispanic isn't a race. And to the dismay of many liberals most Hispanic or Latino voters identify themselves as caucasian.

But they don't identify themselves as extreme rightwing conservatives for the simple reason that the extreme rightwing conservatives are alienating Hispanics and Latinos.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

.
These Catholic conservative Latinos?

Be careful what you wish for....

.

Catholic yes, conservative? Only in your wet dreams.

 

[tinydancer]

The GOP has set course for political irrelevance. If they persist on that course they will ultimately reach the state of oblivion and be replaced with another party entirely. That won't be the Tea Party because they are ones steering the GOP towards irrelevance right now.

Posturing and pandering to the shrinking white extreme right demographic makes for great political theater and it does raise cash in the post Citizens United Libertarian Utopia to come.

However the counter measure is the unstoppable tide of the demographic shift. Without correcting course to allow for that tide the GOP will founder on the rocks of failed rigid economic and social dogma.

The demographic shift will swamp the GOP one way or another. It is entirely possible that control of the helm may be wrested from the aging and enfeebled grip of the extremist bigots before it reaches oblivion. My assumption is that is the most likely outcome.

However the damage to the GOP itself might be irreparable by that point and it might be cheaper and easier to make a clean break and start afresh with a new genuine conservative party that embraces the America of it's third century and builds anew atop the ashes and detritus of the old.

Either way the GOP as we know it today will be gone in a decade, or two at the outside. It has no viable future as it stands. It is nothing but a hollow shell echoing with the angry demands of political dinosaurs who refuse to adapt so they are doomed to extinction.

What part of "the Republicans kicked the shit out of the Democrats 2014 election" did you miss?

 

[percysunshine]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

.
These Catholic conservative Latinos?

Be careful what you wish for....

.

Catholic yes, conservative? Only in your wet dreams.

I guess we will find out. Like all strategic political plans that look so good on paper....

..

 

[Derideo_Te]

The GOP has set course for political irrelevance. If they persist on that course they will ultimately reach the state of oblivion and be replaced with another party entirely. That won't be the Tea Party because they are ones steering the GOP towards irrelevance right now.

Posturing and pandering to the shrinking white extreme right demographic makes for great political theater and it does raise cash in the post Citizens United Libertarian Utopia to come.

However the counter measure is the unstoppable tide of the demographic shift. Without correcting course to allow for that tide the GOP will founder on the rocks of failed rigid economic and social dogma.

The demographic shift will swamp the GOP one way or another. It is entirely possible that control of the helm may be wrested from the aging and enfeebled grip of the extremist bigots before it reaches oblivion. My assumption is that is the most likely outcome.

However the damage to the GOP itself might be irreparable by that point and it might be cheaper and easier to make a clean break and start afresh with a new genuine conservative party that embraces the America of it's third century and builds anew atop the ashes and detritus of the old.

Either way the GOP as we know it today will be gone in a decade, or two at the outside. It has no viable future as it stands. It is nothing but a hollow shell echoing with the angry demands of political dinosaurs who refuse to adapt so they are doomed to extinction.

What part of "the Republicans kicked the shit out of the Democrats 2014 election" did you miss?

Past performance is no guarantee of future results!

 

[Derideo_Te]

Just to refresh our collective memory, the two states with the most electoral votes are California (55) and Texas (39).....Of these two, we all know that California is as blue as the mood of right wingers regarding their aspirations to regain the WH.....

But to add to the GOPers' misery, is the real fact that Texas' Hispanic/Latino population is now at about 44%..............and based on demographic data, by 2020 the state of Texas' white population will be in the minority , while Hispanics will be in the majority by 2036.

Unless the GOP leadership stops its xenophobic attitudes toward Hispanics/Latinos and begins to truly embrace the causes and needs of this wave of ethnic migrants (and not just make lame attempts to have the likes of a Cruz or Rubio trying to come off as caring for such migrants).....the Republican party will slowly perish into irrelevance.

.
These Catholic conservative Latinos?

Be careful what you wish for....

.

Catholic yes, conservative? Only in your wet dreams.

I guess we will find out. Like all strategic political plans that look so good on paper....

..

Please tell us all exactly how the extreme rightwing GOP plans on appealing to the growing Hispanic and Latino demographic in the future?

 

[nat4900]

Again, to refresh our memory about the electoral college (and I'm not even talking about the popular vote......and a factor that no supreme court can negate,) as Texas turns purple and fairly soon, blue......how will the GOP counter this tide in presidential elections?
"ElectoralCollege2012" by Gage - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - File ElectoralCollege2012.svg - Wikimedia Commons

 

[nat4900]

These Catholic conservative Latinos?

Be careful what you wish for....

Actually its NOT a "wish"....but stark reality.........
Catholic conservative Latinos? Perhaps, but polls of just Catholics show that the vast majority are perfectly fine with, for example, gay marriages.

 

[nat4900]

What part of "the Republicans kicked the shit out of the Democrats 2014 election" did you miss?

Find a grown up to explain to you that we are talking about PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.....not midterms like2014.

I can understand that you're obviously dense...but a grownup can maybe help.

 

[The Rabbi]

Again, to refresh our memory about the electoral college (and I'm not even talking about the popular vote......and a factor that no supreme court can negate,) as Texas turns purple and fairly soon, blue......how will the GOP counter this tide in presidential elections?
"ElectoralCollege2012" by Gage - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - File ElectoralCollege2012.svg - Wikimedia Commons

Purple Texas? LOL! Currently every member of the executive branch elected is a Republican. The GOP holds the state senate by a margin of almost 2-1. They hold the House by 2-1 as well. In the US COngressional delegation, out of 36 House members 25 are Republican, and both Senators are Republicans.
So tell me how all of that is going to change over magically for the 2016 presidential election.
What a fucking loser sap.

 

[nat4900]

Reject away, right wingers, since this study was from the left-leaning CAP....nonetheless, only a very foolish right winger should reject this outright,

A study, from the left-leaning Center for American Progress, projects the growth in eligible voters in 12 states by 2014 and 2016. The projections — which broke down the eligible voter growth by race — show that fast-paced minority growth coupled with slow or negative growth among non-Hispanic whites has a substantial impact on the eligible voter makeup of the 12 states that the center examined.

According to the center’s projections, 600,000 Hispanics will be newly eligible to vote in Florida in 2016. Over the same period, fewer than 125,000 new white voters will be eligible in Florida.
In Arizona, more than 175,000 Hispanics will enter the voter pool as roughly 10,000 white voters leave it.
In Texas, 185,000 new white eligible voters will be overwhelmed by the roughly 900,000 Hispanics expected to enter the electorate.