"In the long run, is the GOP dead?"

[Cosmocat]

35. I thought this in 2008 ...

After 2006 and 2008, I thought the republicans would be hard pressed to get any of the three branches moving forward.

Two years later, after the ginned up tea party BS and Ds going full retarded over unrealistic expecations of what BO could do, the Rs had a big majority in the House and the Ds held on to the Senate literally by a hair. This election, very likely the Rs hold the house with a decent margin AND get the senate.

GOD WILLING BO gets through November without anything major happening and hangs on, they will spend the next four years doing to him what they did to Clinton.

I get the point about demographics, but I am skeptical that it will swing the the tide of the country in the next few decades.

The Rs have a mortal lock on the "liberal media" and are able to move public opinion in any way they want 90% of the time. It is only when they screw up in a disastrous manner (like Iraq, and the dipsticks in this country waited until after 2004 so we were subjected to the disaster that was GWB for four more years to hold them accountable for it) that they can't drive public opinion.

What they sell, fear and the rejection of personal responsibility, are better than gold. It will ALWAYS sell, and again, they will ALWAYS have the media to pitch what they are selling.

Demographics have to swing VERY, VERY far to get past it ...