"In the long run, is the GOP dead?"
Sorry, but this is a Pat Buchanan article. I know he's an arrogant racist ass but he describes some issues that are real and are squarely on the minds of many in GOP.
Im not going to post any of the text.. just the link. The crux of the article is that demographics are changing and unless the GOP finds a way to attract minorities and younger people they are finished... which is absolutely true. Buchanan says this year may the GOP's last hurrah if Romney somehow manages to win. He also says once Texas goes, and it will go Dem eventually, its all over for the GOPers.
Limbaugh discussed this article at length today in a solemn serious manner. The Republicans are extremely worried about this issue. Im also worried what they are capable of doing once they realize they are finished.
Here's the article link:
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/07/27/in-the-long-run-is-the-gop-dead/
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Reposting in full
The Future Of The Republican Party (Retroactively from 2010)
I think we need to hold out for eight more years. If we can keep their voter suppression and rigged voting machines in check for just eight more years we just might have a chance at breaking the back of the Republican party and finally moving this country forward in the direction it was intended to move in, toward equality and fairness for all it's citizens.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/aia2010031101/
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The increase in the nonwhite share of the electorate over the next decade will have major consequences for electoral competition. If the Democratic Party is able to maintain anything close to the overwhelming advantage among nonwhite voters that it enjoyed in 2008, Republican candidates will need to win a considerably larger share of the white vote than their party’s candidates did in 2008 or even 2004 in order to remain competitive in national elections. Under these circumstances, even a 60 percent share of the white vote would not be enough to give a Republican candidate a majority of the popular vote and the last Republican presidential candidate to win more than 60 percent of the white vote was Ronald Reagan in 1984.
An alternative path to victory for Republicans in future national elections would involve seeking to expand their Party’s support among nonwhite voters. By winning a larger share of the nonwhite vote, a Republican candidate could be elected with considerably less than 60 percent of the white vote. But this would require the GOP to move away from its conservative base and closer to the ideological center because nonwhite voters tend to be strong supporters of increased spending on social programs and activist government.
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Along the same lines, 65 percent of nonwhite voters, including 64 percent of African-American voters and 73 percent of Hispanic voters, supported the creation of a single-payer health care system in the United States compared with only 15 percent of Republican primary voters. And given a choice between more government services with higher taxes and fewer government services with lower taxes, 67 percent of nonwhite voters, including 67 percent of African-American voters and 68 percent of Hispanic voters, chose more government services with higher taxes compared with only 25 percent of GOP primary voters.
than it is their age. I saw the same thing happen with my mother - a turning away from the democratic party as she became more & more dissatisfied with her life.
When she started listening to Limbaugh in the early 90s it really accelerated! He is very good at getting people who are dissatisfied & vulnerable in their lives, to blame someone else for their problems. It's the fault of the gays, or the blacks or the Hispanics or the feminists - all who are liberal!
It's certainly not their own fault because they played by the rules all their life, so it must be someone else's fault. My mother made some disastrous decisions & she would never admit that a lot of her plight was due to those bad decisions. It was easier to blame someone else.
I sent her that "Joe Conservative" commentary & asked her, "What is it about these policies that you object to?" & she couldn't answer. It was then that I knew she still believed in democratic values, but somewhere along the line she got it all skewed & thought they were just for some people, not all people.
We had a very conflicted relationship toward the end.
FWIW, I've gotten more & more liberal as I get older. I see that in my husband, too. So don't write all us old people off! 
That inspired me:
This is typical rw crap - I am sorry I followed the link. Now I see why you did not post an excerpt. You should have - to warn people away from Buchannons hateful shit. What he is saying is that the GOPs messages of hate, discrimination, religious exclusion and economic entitlement are alienating minority and white voters - and that they need to frame the message more carefully. That they need to better deceive the voters. To dupe them into voting against their interests.
In the long run, is the GOP dead?
Of the seven mega-states, California, New York and Illinois appear lost to the GOP. Pennsylvania has not gone Republican since 1988. Ohio and Florida, both crucial, are now swing states. Whites have become a minority in Texas. When Texas goes, America goes.
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Half of all U.S. wage-earners pay no income tax. Yet that half and their families receive free education K-12, Medicaid, rent supplements, food stamps, earned income tax credits, Pell grants, welfare payments, unemployment checks and other benefits.
Why should poor, working- and middle-class Hispanics, the vast majority, vote for a party that will reduce taxes they don’t pay, but cut the benefits they do receive?
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If your racial and ethnic voter base is aging, shrinking and dying, your moral code is being rejected, and the tax-consuming class has been allowed to grow to equal or to dwarf the taxpaying class, the Grand Old Party has a problem. But then so, too, does the country.
It may be based in reality, but he is lamenting the fact that GOP racist policies have alienated minorities. This is thinly veneered hate speech.
This is GOP horseshit.
