What are the chances today's GOP will regroup to represent something almost human??

[polichick]

I'm looking forward to watching the Republican party try to rebuild itself.

Conservatives have used warmongers and religious fundies for their votes, only to be undone by the monsters they created.

Which faction will win the war for the party? Do you see any transformational leaders on their horizon?

[JJ]

1. 0.0000000000000000000000001%

they will go further into psycho territory.

[muntrv]

2. I'm not holding my breath. The repukes will claim that McBush wasn't being

right wing enough.

[NewJeffCT]

5. They've been doing that for a while now

"Bush's big problem is that he's not conservative enough" - true quote when I was down in Freeperville, NC in 2004.

I think Peggy Noonan even referred to him as a liberal a few years ago.

[elocs]

3. If the Dems get too smug with power and believe they cannot be put out,

then they (Republicans) will be back.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I don't see it happening before 2012

McCain is set up now to take the fall because he was not a "true" movement conservative.

They'll nominate Sarah Palin, or a similar "movement" conservative, and get swamped in a landslide in 2012 - only then, will it start to sink in that they need to become a more moderate party and that the extremists are dragging them down. Hopefully, it won't sink in by 2016 and we can get another Democrat in there after Obama.

[BeFree]

6. Not likely

What is likely is that they will try to destroy an Obama presidency, much like they did Clinton.

[CrispyQ]

10. What they did to Clinton will pale in comparison to what they will try to do to Obama.

However, I also think it will be much more difficult. I may get flamed for this, but I believe Obama is a better man in many regards.

Earlier today someone posted that there is already a website to collect sigs to impeach Obama. I couldn't decide if I should laugh or cry at reading that.

[BeFree]

26. Cry

Obama is a better man, and that means they will be even more ferocious.

All I can say is I will fight for Obama. I don't believe he'll let us down.

[Danger Mouse]

21. To be fair, Clinton didn't do himself any favors by fucking an intern in the oval office then

lying about it.

[BeFree]

23. He didn't, actaully

she sucked him off.

Still, to be fair the pubbies spent $70M going after him. And that after he worked with them for what was presumed to be the best for the country.

[Danger Mouse]

32. Well, some people consider oral sex to be sex. It wasn't a smart move on Clinton's part.

If you KNOW the pukes are out to get you, don't give them free ammo.

[BeFree]

33. So

Do you think they'll be nice to Obama, or not? He's gonna end the war and cost them billions in profits. He's gonna tax the rich, like Clinton did. They are gonna be so pissed right from the get go. Delay told them that they would crush the democratic party and here we are back in their faces.

[Danger Mouse]

35. Of course they're not going to be nice to him.

They're going to look for every opportunity to destroy him. Here's hoping Obama doesn't do something incredibly stupid and give them something they can actually work with.

[mr_hat]

7. They need to return to a preponderance of aged, milquetoast

white guys with molded hair and a southern accent. That should work.

[longship]

8. Read today's Krugman column from the NYT.

Krugman on the future of the GOP post 11/5/08 (link to previous DU thread--please R&K)

Here's link to Krugman's NYT Op-Ed cited: The Republican Rump

[polichick]

18. Wow, guess we'll have to hold onto our seats (in more ways than one)!

[billyoc]

9. Zero. The Christian Phalangists have tasted blood.

You can't negotiate with terrorists.

[quaker bill]

11. Sooner or later

the republican party will either accomplish this or dissolve. It will probably get both smaller and uglier first. I am not sure that they have reached the point of capitulation, we won't know for weeks, if not months. I also would not be surprised to see a solid third party, with a more libertarian lean, arise from this defeat.

I am predicting that Parah Salin is first to throw Johnny Mac under the bus. She will beat him to the punch by several hours, perhaps by noon wednesday.

[paparush]

12. Neocons are not going away. They bred during the Clinton years..multiplying..spreading their cancer

They will do the same again.

[surrealAmerican]

31. I'm not so sure about that.

The current financial crisis may be taken as proof that their policies just don't work, at least to the better educated among them.

[paparush]

36. Their base is much more concerned about abortion and Jesus than their bank accounts.

Muslims, terrorists, being "Number One!" will motivate the Neocons more than making the intellectual "leap" that their policies are detrimental to the country and the world.

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

13. Go to freeperville and check out the compassion....

My guess is when hell freezes over
edit for clarity

[BlooInBloo]

14. 0.

This has been another episode of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.

[KamaAina]

15. Ask Stephen Hawking

about the same as those of a quantum singularity suddenly expanding into a black hole that will suck all matter in the universe into it in a split second. Tonight.

[GoesTo11]

16. Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber & Hank Williams Junior

Some future they got there.

[Marsala]

17. In the short run, Krugman is probably right and they will become a rump

In the longer run, they will likely be forced back to the center, though it may take a minimum of four years. The Republican Party has been around for nearly 150 years. Unlike the Federalists and Whigs, it is too established to wither away.

If the Republicans do wither away, we will then split into a left party and a center party.

[TheKentuckian]

19. Unfortunately, the Fundies have the numbers

and the neocon elements can probably deal with them since they are prone to violence and xenophobia, which can be used to keep the military industrial machines gears turning.

I think the moneychangers are stuck with an unmanageable mob if they stay, are unwelcome among the masses because they could care less about fiscal conservatism or the ideas surrounding that school of thought, and will have to eventually abandon ship leaving the GOP with an average IQ of 35.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. There is zero possibility of moderation

That would leave a big chunk of the country unrepresented.

So they can only get crazier... a regional extremist party.

[codjh9]

22. Covered already in some will-they-split posts, but I think the answer is: Only if they split

into 2 parties - the old-school/fiscal conservative/socially moderate 'original' Republican Party, and the nutcase-fundamentalist-racist-far-right party.

[AlinPA]

24. It will change: to be dominated more by the fundamentalist-evangelical, flag

waving, gay-hating factions.

[Rosco T.]

25. They will end up splitting into three groups...

#1) the Moderaters, the Eisenhower Republicans... the only decent ones existing (very small)

#2) the NeoCon theives

#3) The Religious Reich...


stand back, get the popcorn and watch 2 and 3 go after 1, then when they are destroyed.. watch 2 and 3 eat each other

[Jed Dilligan]

27. About the same as the odds of a troop of baboons in the Kalahari desert

staging "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" one day instead of foraging, preening, etc.

[RollWithIt]

28. Actually, pretty good...the humiliation of this defeat will force them towards reality....

But I don't think they'll recover fully until 2016.

[Kaleko]

29. Republicans are splitting into 3 parts,

1) the neocons, 2) the theocons and 3) moderate conservatives.

The latter are leaving the party in droves, even endorsing Obama.

The neocons and theocons will still try to dominate the country and by extension the whole world. In the process, they'll devour each other because there is no unifying leader to bring them together again after the failure of John McCain's laughable campaign.

[eugeneliberal]

30. Of course they will, then morph again

It's a cyclical problem. The party will try and find a way to combat us, they'll come at us again in the original W style...it won't be compassionate conservative next time, but it'll have to be the same bull crap lies, then when they get in power it'll be Reaganomics III. The key is to get the country healthy enough to withstand the onslaught. The good news is that I think it'll be at least 12 years until they have a realistic shot at fooling enough of the public.

[PatriotGames]

34. Nope. Sorry. No chance,