If (when) the Republicans lose this year

[Scootaloo]

1. They'll blame anyone but themselves

For instance, they still maintain that Barack Obama only won in 2008 because "racist" blacks* voted for him. They insist their legislation doesn't pass because of conspiracies, rather than because it's bad and / or unconstitutional. Their reaction whenever voters turn them down for being too crazy is to get even crazier. They've developed this fantasy of persecution where everyone from Sesame Street to the National Geographic Society is plotting against them. And never once - not once in over fifty years have they stopped to go "Uh... maybe we're overdoing it?"

(* - I actually parsed the numbers on this. Barack Obama did, in fact, get a 2% increase over the average for Democratic candidates among black voters; putting him at 93% or so. Not exactly a surge. Kerry and Mondale both came in with very similar numbers, and I don't think many candidates have been whiter than those two. However, McCain saw the largest surge in white votes for a Republican Candidate since the passage of the 14th amendment; He got a whopping 25% increase over the average, which even put him past the big spike among white voters that Reagan's second run got. So if anyone was winning the "racial loyalist" vote... it was the guy who lost.)