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

[geckosfeet]

51. The issue they are worried about is that their message of hate and fear is being rejected.

This is typical rw crap - I am sorry I followed the link. Now I see why you did not post an excerpt. You should have - to warn people away from Buchannons hateful shit. What he is saying is that the GOPs messages of hate, discrimination, religious exclusion and economic entitlement are alienating minority and white voters - and that they need to frame the message more carefully. That they need to better deceive the voters. To dupe them into voting against their interests.


In the long run, is the GOP dead?

Of the seven mega-states, California, New York and Illinois appear lost to the GOP. Pennsylvania has not gone Republican since 1988. Ohio and Florida, both crucial, are now swing states. Whites have become a minority in Texas. When Texas goes, America goes.

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Half of all U.S. wage-earners pay no income tax. Yet that half and their families receive free education K-12, Medicaid, rent supplements, food stamps, earned income tax credits, Pell grants, welfare payments, unemployment checks and other benefits.

Why should poor, working- and middle-class Hispanics, the vast majority, vote for a party that will reduce taxes they don’t pay, but cut the benefits they do receive?

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If your racial and ethnic voter base is aging, shrinking and dying, your moral code is being rejected, and the tax-consuming class has been allowed to grow to equal or to dwarf the taxpaying class, the Grand Old Party has a problem. But then so, too, does the country.

It may be based in reality, but he is lamenting the fact that GOP racist policies have alienated minorities. This is thinly veneered hate speech.

This is GOP horseshit.