The GOP pundits are basically adopting Mitt's "47% rhetoric..." THEY ARE REALLY DONE!

[K8-EEE]

It blows my mind that BillO, RushBo etc. are actually saying that the people who voted for Obama are "takers" who "want free stuff" etc. They are just changing the 47% to 51%!

Talk about NOT GETTING IT plus of course the insult that the minority voters don't "work hard," are moochers etc!!

They are going to go the way of the Whigs, seriously....I am shocked at their crazy reaction to the election, talk about MAKING IT WORSE...

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Republicans = Double down on triple down! nt

[tarheelsunc]

7. HAHAHA, that's awesome and 100% true, these clowns don't know when to shut up

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. they will never, ever get it.

[high density]

3. I work at least a third of every workday to pay my taxes to various levels of government

I don't mind doing this, but I do really hate it when guys like Billo act like all liberals just sit back and suck off the government teat.

[PowerToThePeople]

4. want to hear a frightening theory

since the Democratic party is moving further right, if the ptb get it far enough right, they can party jump to (D) dump the "true" progressive wing of the democratic party and own it all again...

[theKed]

8. Well, it wouldn't be the first time

Though it went the other way last time, when all the 'Dixiecrats' jumped ship. If that's attempted it'll either end in the Democrat party shifting hard left and dropping them, or a new, further left party springing up.

Before we see that happen, though, I expect we'll see a big schism split the Republican party and create an actual Tea Party, separate from the Republicans entirely, leaving them somewhere in the middle. They will then either have to drum up some prominent members to take the spotlight (most of the "celebrity" Republicans would easily swing towards the new Tea Party) or fade away into, mostly, the Democrat party after a cycle or two. If the (newly-moderate) Republican party stays alive, the Tea Party will be faced with being, essentially, unelectable beyond the state (at best) level. If they migrate into the Democrat party, it will become too bloated and broad in scope and will, eventually, split itself into a left wing and a centre/centre-right party, once again leaving the Tea Party to wallow in unelectable rage.

[abelenkpe]

9. It's just time for the pendulum to swing the other way

It's the beginning of it swinging back to the left.

[Wednesdays]

5. "...Adopting Mitt's '47% rhetoric...'" Exactly.

Take Rushbo for example, and his "Santa Claus" reference...insinuating the people who voted for Obama are all freeloaders.

You're right, they'll never learn.

[IAMTOM]

6. The GOP pundits are basically adopting Mitt's "47% rhetoric..." THEY ARE REALLY DONE!

I really hate the 47% (or 51%!) "takers and whiners" non-sense. It just simply isn't true

[K8-EEE]

10. I can't think of a better way to reach out to minority voters

Than to call them all lazy bums who are not "traditional" white voters, don't work hard and are "voting for free stuff."

Really. That is brilliant. PROCEED, REPUBLICANS.