Republican base doubles down on fanaticism

[MrModerate]

I'm growing convinced that the Republican party is going to collapse like a burned-out star until there's nothing left but a tiny black hole. The non-crazy right-of-center folks (at least those not sucked into the collapsar's gravity well) will have no choice but to form a new party -- and then we'll have a true 3+ party system: Dems, Neo'Licans, and wackos. It'll be interesting:

IN GOP BASE, A 'REBELLION BREWING'

A quick tour through the week’s headlines suggests the Republican Party is beginning to come to terms with the last election and that consensus is emerging among GOP elites that the party needs to move away from discordant social issues.

. . . But outside Washington, the reality is very different. Rank-and-file Republicans remain, by all indications, staunchly conservative, and they appear to have no desire to moderate their views. GOP activists and operatives say they hear intense anger at the White House and at the party’s own leaders on familiar issues – taxes, homosexuality, and immigration. Within the party, conservative groups have grown stronger absent the emergence of any organized moderate faction.

More: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21677.html

[Skittles]

1. yup

when economic times are bad, wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion really lose their effectiveness and essentially, that's all the repukes have had for some time

[Number23]

2. Part of me wants to laugh and part of me feels sorry for the fools

With everything that's going on in this country, in the world right now the fact that so many Repubs are still consumed by gay marriage and immigration shows that they haven't learned a thing.

"Asked about how a presidential candidate urging the party toward the middle on cultural issues would fare, Scheffler said flatly: “They’re not gonna go anywhere."

“There is a fever pitch,” (Wilson) said, dismissing the notion that the party must sacrifice some of the intensely held views of base voters to expand its coalition to include more young and minority voters. “You don’t get a new coalition by abandoning your old coalition.”

Nope, they haven't learned a thing...

[muntrv]

3. Keep digging, Repubs! You're just showing the world what a bunch of neanderthals you are.

[frogcycle]

4. It is becoming more and more apparent

how much race is now the issue. The diehard KKK-minded folks will never, never, never accept "anything that **** does." End of discussion. Those remaining republicans with functioning brain cells will have to form their own fascist party - and it will be tiny. It will be small - you'll have to make a million dollars a year to join.

[MrModerate]

5. They do seem to have split into goobers and plutocrats . . .

Leaving millions with no real party that addresses their interests (which to be honest, are not *so* different than progressives' interests).

Maybe the "independents" will be the core of the Neo'Lican party?

[JohnnyLib2]

6. I read the OP as "doubles down on fornication."

Might help with popularity, anyway. :evilgrin:

[Hamlette]

7. the GOP leaders created these "monsters" to win elections, now they can't control them

the fired up their "base" with amendments to outlaw gay marriage because the gay agenda was going to change their lives, that democrats were the evil party of librils who want to take all their money and give it to the immigrants who are too lazy to work (and somehow are also taking their jobs, go figure).

Now those tea baggers are scaring the shit out of 80% of us and the GOP can't put them back in the box.

How sad.

[rufus dog]

8. Ahh, the babies of Atwater and Rove are early twenties and teenagers

And they are fucked up illiterate twits.

When you stimulate a base with hate and all of your ideas fail you are left with a uncontrollable mob. Have fun boys, you have an aging base of 27% that are loud, obnoxious, and not very smart. Hard to get a permanent majority when 40% will never go you way and an additional 20% are afraid of the 27%ers.