NOW is the Time to Destroy the Republican Party Once and for All

[many a good man]

Bush* has cobbled together an unstable base full of conflicting interests to reach his 50% parity in the electorate. Many of these are single issue or "single concept" voters. His policies and PR are constantly damaging relations with one or another of his constituents. Democrats must work to highlight and exacerbate these divisions. We need not try to attract them to our candidates, just fracture their coalition.

GOP main constituent parts:
* Fundies
* Tax haters
* Hatriots
* Racists
* Corporate crooks (and their wannabes)

Other single issue voters:
* Abortion
* Homos
* Gun nuts
* Libertarians
* Isolationists
* Fiscal conservatives
* Hawks

Fundies comprise up to 50% of his voter turnout so its a good idea to start there. How can they support a man whose VP is for gay marriage? Who authorized stem cell research in the first place? Who raised such awful godless daughters?

How about the Debt? Degrading the military? Etc., etc., etc. Democrats need a dirty tricks team. Are we playing to win?

The "Movement" has run out of gas. It is dying from too much success, corruption, and internal contradiction. Its time to strike.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. We need the media to do that

Currently, they're playing the Sirene's song to each of these groups, holding them together for the GOP.

Lick Laura's Bush - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - FUCK BUSH
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[oscar111]

2. Racists are the biggest group in GOP

pls add them.

I think they are there, but could use some study to back it up. Anyone?

Did you have middleclass greedheads in the list? Corporate crooks is there, but i would call the middle class "wannabe-corporate-crooks", the greedhead faction. Corp. crooks have made the big time, but greedheads are still dreaming.

[many a good man]

5. Got 'em

Edited above. How can I forget them? The Angry White Males. They're still out there. LBJ was the only Dem since Truman to get a majority of the white male demographic.

I wonder if Kitty has any dirt on Condi and her "husb-- oops, I mean the president"???

[Nite Owl]

3. Way back, in the 80's I think

waht the fundies did was run for local office. Schoolboards, town stuff. That's now part of Dean's plan to take back the country one locality at a time. A real grassroots movement. He' right. As it is now we have to rebuild again and all the dirty tricks aren't going to work because they have such control everywhere. If we had atleast one branch of Congress we could do the investigations that were needed so hopefully with a Kerry win it will have coattails. We don't need dirty tricks we have lots of truth.

[LunaSea]

4. New York missed the opportunity

All that was needed was to lock the doors.
Give MSG the Chernobyl "sarcophagus" treatment. Leave a slot for food pellets, and let'em back out when they've evolved a bit.

[snippy]

6. I agree with the concept, but I think you left out moderate republicans

as an important constituent part of the republican party. There are millions of moderate republican voters who delude themselves into believing that the Reich wing fundamentalists are merely quaint and do not reflect the true republican party. I think these two groups constitute the vulnerable schism in the republican party.

The schism between the moderates and the Reich wing fundamentalists is vulnerable because the Reich wingers insist on intolerance and hatred as basic American values while the moderates find such values loathsome. If the moderates can be forced to acknowledge that every time they vote for a republican, even a moderate republican, they are empowering the Reich wing then some of them will stop voting republican. If the Reich wing can be forced to acknowledge that they must compromise with the moderates then some of them will stop voting at all.

Many of the Tax Cut Monkeys and the Hatriots among the republican base are actually Reich wing fundamentalists and many of the corporate crooks and fiscal conservatives are otherwise moderate republicans. If 10-15% of either the moderate republicans or the Reich wing fundamentalists stopped voting republican, the republican party would no longer be competitive in national elections or in some, though not all, state elections.

[Warpy]

7. Don't attack fundies on those hot button issues

Better to recite the words of Christ about peace, tolerance, and care for the poor. Ask them how Bush is demonstrating those things. Ask them what position Halliburton holds in Bush's Christian theology.

Then walk away.