As of today....R.I.P.

[Playinghardball]

[WI_DEM]

1. Not likely

the GOP was written off in 1932, 1936 and after the debacle of 1964. Similarly Dems were written off in the 1920's, 1972 & 1980. It's a nice thought but they will still be around in the future but there will be a lot of soul searching if they lose this election like the Dems had after '72 and '80 which (unfortunately) led to things like the DLC. With the dems it led to moving to the right. With the GOP it may lead to them moving back towards the center or having total control given to the tea partiers.

[randome]

4. The past isn't always a predictor of the future.

I hear what you're saying but I think we're in uncharted territory this election. Republicans will still be around but their party as we know it is showing signs of collapsing.

I am no expert in history or politics but that's how it seems to me.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Soul-searching and retrenchment

They'll have a helluva struggle, but it's still an open question as to where they'll come out. Their only real chance is to kick out the extremists, tweak the conservative ideology, and move to the center. Any other way, the demographics kill them.

[louis-t]

9. Don't forget about 1954. McCarthy era.

I believe that the hearings and resulting bad press kept the repugs in the minority for 40 years.

[tk2kewl]

12. Let's at least do some 9/11 investigations

and if something actually comes up, let's not just accept their apology and move on

[cr8tvlde]

2. Hopefully at least to the TP fringe.

TP for Tea Party, that is.

[former9thward]

3. Unless lightning strikes the Rs will control the House.

At least that is what independent projections are showing. If a party controls one/half of Congress they are hardly dead.

[jsr]

5. Doubtful

They have too much money to go extinct anytime soon.

[slackmaster]

7. That's what my mom said about the GOP on August 9, 1974

[ksoze]

8. Wishful Thinking on Steriods

They are emboldened by Romney's remarks and polls show them more fired up.

[Angry Dragon]

10. This republican party is not the republican party of Abraham Lincoln nor

the republican party of IKE

It is a party of hate and fear, traitors, greed, obstructionists, and morally corrupt idiots

[emilyg]

11. Don't think so.

[Edweird]

13. Not a chance.....

[hifiguy]

14. When Willard goes down, there will be a bloodbath.

The marriage of convenience between the mossback bigots, the religulously insane and the plutocracy is headed for the rocks. The plutocrats have the money, the crazies have the numbers. In the last ten years the inmates have taken over the asylum. Demography will kill the Repigs. Within one or two more presidential election cycles it will not be possible for the Repigs to assemble a majority in the electoral college. They are teetering on the precipice of a bottomless pit.

[WinkyDink]

15. The reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.