'GOP Is Extinct' - Steve Schmidt, Fmr McCain Campaign Manager

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Mary Matalin starts off with 'elections have consequences'

[TheEuclideanOne]

1. Wouldn't want to have "Former McCain Campaign Manager" on my resume

This guy is a Loser's Loser. Nonetheless, I like what he is saying. :)

[Burma Jones]

2. Well Duh......

If you tout that Government is always bad, you don't get to govern.....

[peace frog]

3. Rumour of their demise is greatly exaggerated

The pendulum has begun to swing in our direction, but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, meaning...

They'll be baaaa-aaack and loaded for bear, never doubt it.

[lefthandedlefty]

4. Exactly

We have such short memories that is why things will never change.

[Hyper_Eye]

5. I agree. They would like this idea to permeate so that we take our eye off the ball.

We do so at our own peril. We need to keep on the Republicans as we have been without diminishing the strength of our resolve one single bit. They are still a strong force. I am living in deep red Alabama and I can tell you that our work is not finished.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

6. Yeah

All this amounts to is that the Republicans are "playing possum", they want everyone to think that they are a dying party and things have to change internally. When they know that they aren't going to change a thing and will wait things out until they can find a chance to enter the dialogue once again with their tired bullshit. Don't believe a word of what Schmidt is saying, he doesn't believe it so why should we.

[AlbertCat]

8. Rumour of their demise is greatly exaggerated

True...and the pendulum does swing.

So let's make sure Obama is the Dem "Reagan" in that he starts a 30 year period of Dem ideas and goals being mainstream. (But let's not worship him like a bunch of idiots)
Obama certainly has more going for him than Reagan ever did. I find it sooooo GOP... the party that hates pinko Hollywood actor elites...choses a Hollywood actor elite to be their Messiah. Obama is a Dem icon of multi-culturalism who is not an actor of any kind that I can tell. He's not the very thing Dems say they hate but what we like to see.

Of course, greed and hate are easy to tap into and mobilize. Altruism and empathy is hard. It requires sacrifice, introspection, and humility. It's hard. We always have to work twice as hard. Education is the key. Thinking with your gut, like Dubya, is useless....but easy. Using your brain requires training and work.


Here's to 30 plus years of Liberal Zeitgeist!

[ginnyinWI]

7. I see two main reasons.

One, their ideas simply don't work. Bush had total freedom to enact the GOP ideology and he did, and it failed, and people saw it.

Two, they are so negative. No hope. Everything is fear, smear and doom and gloom. Not exactly a compelling message, unless you are a fearful, negative person already and this message sings your own song.

[Voice for Peace]

9. good points

no hope. people want to be inspired nowadays, not scared.

[Juche]

10. Three - they kicked everyone out of the GOP

I agree with your points 1 and 2 (I think Katrina was a slap in the face to the American people of what happens when you consider tax cuts good and infrastructure spending bad) but I also think the fact that the GOP has openly rejected anyone who isn't a married, white christian heterosexual from membership in the party and full fledged membership in America itself has also doomed them. Groups who the GOP treat like shit, mock and reject (latinos, blacks, atheists, GLBT, the poor) now make up a huge % of the electorate and are growing rapidly. In fact that fastest growing demographic groups in the US (latinos, secularists, single people) are groups that the GOP has openly treated like shit and that partly as a result vote democratic about 60-80% of the time.

We are rapidly becoming a more secular, non-white, socially liberal nation full of lifelong singles and divorcees. The GOP is still living in 1980 and has no idea how much the country has changed.

I think the GOP will be back, but I also think this is just the start of the GOP demise. Hopefully they lost the youth vote for a generation.

[ginnyinWI]

13. the very definition of a conservative

means that things should either stay the same or go back to some previous era. Like my parents who think the Fifties were the best of times.

And we've been held back from progressing for the last eight years (at least) so now that Obama is president we are ready to take a pent-up jump forward to make up for sorely needed progress on a lot of fronts.

On some level a lot of people understand this and welcome it, even if they don't articulate it in exactly that way. The changing demographic in this country is just one of many elements that need to be incorporated into a new vision of what America should be.

[curiousdemo]

11. Enough said

:toast:

[elway7]

12. Haha Shrinking Entity....

Just like the Repukes' dicks.