In case you thought the GOP was ascendant...

[Sheilbh]

Heh, tea baggers.

Who knew that one day the GOP would be the party of John Waters

[Razgovory]

Funny.  Muslims believe the same thing.

Muslims believe in free market economics?

Muslim and Republicans have the same desire to "get back to basics".  Somehow being more backward will give them more power.

[Fate]

Heh, tea baggers.

Who knew that one day the GOP would be the party of John Waters

We will not allow your juvenile antics to suppress the tea baggers right to dissent and protest.

[alfred russel]

A few years ago the democratic activists were trying to purge their moderate members like Lieberman. Now they run everything.

[Darth Wagtaros]

A few years ago the democratic activists were trying to purge their moderate members like Lieberman. Now they run everything.

Not hardly. The second part t hat is.  The first is still going on.

[Fate]

A few years ago the democratic activists were trying to purge their moderate members like Lieberman. Now they run everything.

This is a selective reading of history. Rahm Emmanuel is widely reviled by the left wing because he recruited, funded, and supported candidates that were capable of winning elections rather than ones who passed their ideological bar.

Lieberman is not a moderate. He's a child throwing a temper tantrum.

[alfred russel]

This is a selective reading of history. Rahm Emmanuel is widely reviled by the left wing because he recruited, funded, and supported candidates that were capable of winning elections rather than ones who passed their ideological bar.

Thanks for making my point.

[Scipio]

Heh, tea baggers.

I swear, the fucking GOP has nobody with a brain, or under the age of 50, within the top 10% of the GOP.

[Fate]

This is a selective reading of history. Rahm Emmanuel is widely reviled by the left wing because he recruited, funded, and supported candidates that were capable of winning elections rather than ones who passed their ideological bar.

Thanks for making my point.

That New Democrat is now Chief of Staff.

Left wing ideologues are certainly not "running everything."

[CountDeMoney]

Heh, tea baggers.

I swear, the fucking GOP has nobody with a brain, or under the age of 50, within the top 10% of the GOP.

All the Reaganauts are dead.

[alfred russel]

This is a selective reading of history. Rahm Emmanuel is widely reviled by the left wing because he recruited, funded, and supported candidates that were capable of winning elections rather than ones who passed their ideological bar.

Thanks for making my point.

That New Democrat is now Chief of Staff.

Left wing ideologues are certainly not "running everything."

You know what? I fucked up my pronoun reference. Sorry fate. I meant to write:

A few years ago the democratic activists were trying to purge their moderate members like Lieberman. Now democrats run everything.

[derspiess]

I thought the Republicans were going to be like the Tories in 1997

You mean, abandon conservatism?  No thanks.  I'd rather stay out of power a little longer than do that.

[DGuller]

I thought the Republicans were going to be like the Tories in 1997

You mean, abandon conservatism?  No thanks.  I'd rather stay out of power a little longer than do that.

I feel the same way.

[derspiess]

Believe it or not, there are a lot of people believing that Republicans can return to power only by embracing true conservatism, and by reversing the movement to the left on social and economic issues.  This radicalization is baffling, and scary.

The momentum seems to be much more economic than social (more than a few of the tea party types are libertarians). 

Personally, I'd put the social issues to the side to focus on the one thing that *should* bind all Republicans together: fiscal conservatism.  If the GOP can't even agree on that, then it doesn't deserve to return to power.  In other words, if a GOP candidate can't at least keep to the right on economic issues, screw 'em. 

[Valmy]

Personally, I'd put the social issues to the side to focus on the one thing that *should* bind all Republicans together: fiscal conservatism.

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If the Republicans did that I would support them.  It is the social shit that makes them simply unpalatable.  Well that and the Republicans come off as favoring aggressive radical solutions to problems which I hate, because aggressive and radical usually mean idiotic.  I find that a very strange quality for a party that claims to be "conservative".