Conservatives on Reddit are starting to talk like rational human beings.

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4. It's true. The Republican Party *should* be occupying the political space Obama is currently in.

In my opinion, Obama is the perfect template for a Republican who can win nationally. As we saw last night, there is simply no room to his right (on the national stage). Even with racists and religious extremists, they couldn't scrabble together enough support to beat him.

Right now, they are no more than a regional party and can do nothing more than obstruct. Eventually they're going to have to come to grips with reality and rebuild their entire operation, including the voting blocks to which they appeal. They're going to have to move well to the left, back into a pragmatic position. This far right-wing, "reality be damned" ideological identity they're wearing right now is only going to lose bigger and bigger on the national stage.

It's doing us all a disservice, because I think they *could* serve a very useful role. There *are* arguments to made for positions to the right of where I (and I think, most liberals) tend to fall. But right now, they're being made by a pragmatic Democrat.