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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:34 PM Feb 2012

How the Republicans will become more moderate...

While it probably won't happen, it could.
Republicans would take a step back from this insanity if one thing, and only... one thing happens.

They really get what they deserve...
They are creamed so bad,
Beaten so bad, that some sanity returns.
All teabaggers defeated, and more progressives elected.
We take strong control of House with our majority of 30 to 40..net change of say 70 seats..
and maybe gain 8 or 9 Senate seats.

Total destruction of their insanity,
then they will change.
.maybe. .

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no_hypocrisy

(45,771 posts)
2. When two things happen:
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:38 PM
Feb 2012

1. Republicans keep losing elections, and

2. Elections can't be rigged and/or stolen.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
3. The problem is that once the R-party went down the crazy road, there's no turning back.
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:43 PM
Feb 2012

The moderate banner has been taken by the Democrats. We now have one big moderate party (big tent if you will), the nit-wit party and progressives w/o a home.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
4. The various factions will keep spinning more and more into lunacy
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:46 PM
Feb 2012

Unless they are purged out of the party, turning the party back into a minority Hamiltonian party with the lunatics creating their own impotent splinter parties, the lunacy will tear them apart and they will go the way of the Federalist Party and the Whigs before them, sputtering on for a few years as a regional party but not fielding presidential candidates because none will get a majority of votes from feuding lunatics.

Once a Hamiltonian party begins to die, the Hamiltonian conservatives flood into the Democratic Party. The new second party is generally a group of progressives who coalesce around one issue. For the Republicans, that issue was ending slavery. Once that was accomplished, apathy set in and the Hamiltonians took it over.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
5. It is more likely that the TPers would split off to form their own party
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:47 PM
Feb 2012

and some sane ones would be left to run a much smaller, less crazy, (R) party.

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
6. It's like herding cats or nailing jello to a tree....
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:54 PM
Feb 2012

but they need to reel in the teabaggers and evangelicals and start reengaging the country club republicans.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
7. I used to work with a country-club Repub.
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:59 PM
Feb 2012

A guy who came from a long line of doctors. Quintessential moderate MN Repub type. He surprised the hell out of me a few years ago when he told me he'd been voting Democratic since the mid-1990s. The fundymentalpatients freaked him out very badly and he said "I don't want my kids growing up in the world those freaks want."

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
9. In 2008 they were beaten badly. Democrats were given an unbelievable mandate
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 07:10 PM
Feb 2012

Obama got more votes than any other person running for President EVER...yet Republicans went in the exact opposite direction and said the reason they were beaten so badly was because they weren't being absolutely fucking nuts, so they decided to do so.. It appeared to work for them politically anyway....If they are wholloped again I don't know what they will do.. 2nd amendment remedies I guess.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
10. Maybe this split over birth control will do it...that is
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 07:16 PM
Feb 2012

Get the shit knocked out of them..once and for all..

here is a link on a current story at TPM

Here is a quote from that article..
"Behind the political haze is a new poll showing that a majority of the public — including self-identified Catholics — favors the birth control rule when told what it actually entails. It exempts churches and houses of worship that primarily employ persons of the same faith and grants religious nonprofits that employ and serve persons of different beliefs one additional year to begin complying."


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/gop-ripe-for-schisms-in-assault-on-birth-control-rule.php?ref=fpa

or maybe this thread here at DU will do it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002285653

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