The GOP must shift to the left to become a viable party.

[Postman]

To move further to the right is to marginalize them even more.

Their phony populist rhetoric while rewarding the oppressors isn't working anymore. They need an ideological shift in order to survive.

They need to come to grips with the notion that they are headed for extinction if they continue the same old line.

The Reagan Model won't save them this time.

[T Wolf]

1. Here's hoping that the party and its adherents go extinct. The world will be better off

without them.

[graywarrior]

2. They need to form a new party

The hostage takers of the current republican party will NEVER go left...EVER.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. The Dems must move to the right

and do the bidding of their new corporate masters, namely the health insurance and finance industries, or they will get their funding cut off.

We will be allowed to have our social issues, but on fiscal policy, whatever is good for AIG and Goldman-Sachs is good for America.

Shit. First post of the day and I'm already in full-cynical mode.

[Postman]

6. They've already moved there.

We need public funding of elections, exclusively.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Gawd, don't I know it.

But that will be no easier to get than universal health care or any other corporate-unfriendly reform. The big guys do not want to lose the power of the purse string over the gubmint.

[livetohike]

4. Sssssh! Don't tell them

Everyone is giving them advice and they just might take it :-).

[Towlie]

5. I hope they shift to the right far enough to fall off the edge of the world.

[Mari333]

7. they will join the DINO's

but I dont think they will move very far. They wont move left of LIEberman thats for sure.
they have plenty of Dems owned by the banks and multinationals to keep them company tho.

[malaise]

9. The GOP has boxed themselves in

Their 21% are the most backward people in the US. They are now Rush and Palin supporters and want nothing to do with anything called moderation.
Fuck the 'collective pack' of them.

[Vogon_Glory]

14. Concurr

I'm inclined to agree with your central premise. Today's GOP consists of hard-line social darwinist economic conservatives, clubby crony capitalists, and the Religious Right. That may be enough to elect congressional representatives and even senators and governors in the former Confederacy (And also Oklahoma) and elect congressional reps here and there in the rest of the country, but that is not a broad enough political base to cover the rest of the country.

To paraphrase turncoat Democrat Zell Miller (And how I gloat to use this paraphrase!)--the Republican Party is a national party no more.

:evilgrin:

:dem:

[hedgehog]

10. I expect the Republicans to shift so far tot he Right they join the Whigs.

The Democrats in the mean time will split onto two parties.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. "They need to come to grips with the notion that they are headed for extinction"

Who gives a rats ass about the survival of the GOP? They need to keep going to the right until they fall off the map.

Stay clueless out there all you conservatives.

[Better Believe It]

12. And the Democratic Party must shift to the left if it is to remain a viable party

[olegramps]

13. I hope that they continue shifting to the right.

It would be a stunning victory for democracy and a rousing defeat of the hatred and division spewed by their propagandists.

This trend reveals that the majority of Americans are rejecting their message of exclusion and that their cult only appeals to the ignorant masses and their greedy masters. They are on the wrong side of every issue and I wish them success in their endeavor to make themselves irrelevant. It couldn't happen to a nastier group of slimy lemmings.

[MadHound]

15. Why? The Democratic party has shifted so far to the right

That moderate 'Pugs felt comfortable enough to vote for Dems, and Obama in the last election. Hell, even Arlen became a Dem, he felt so comfortable. Sad state of the party when Arlen thinks he's a Dem.

Meanwhile the twenty-thirty percent of rabid RWer's are essentially taking over the Republican party and moving it even further to the right.

Thus we're left with a hard right party and a center right party, with nothing on the left except the Greens.

A sad state of affairs, all in all.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Republicans with more than two brain cells know this, but their base won't accept it.

This is their base: