Spercanish is doing something amazing

[nadinbrzezinski]

telling us how moderates are being driven away from the GOP...

Folks we MIGHT operative word here, be seeing the end of the GOP... they may be joining the whigs pretty soon (historically speaking)

[marmar]

1. Going the way of the Freesoilers and the Whigs?

Although if I remember my HS history right, the Whigs became the Republicans, before they became repugnant.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. More details from your History class

the MODERATES in the Whig party left and formed the GOP, leaving the Southern Whigs flapping in the wind

Don't you love irony?

[spanone]

2. he's right, the thugs have embraced the dark side and there's nowhere for a moderate

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I know, but I never thought I'd see a major party

fall apart this way

[axesup]

4. even if

Even if the end of the GOP is imminent there are still going to be rightwing nuts out there. A turd by any other names stinks as bad.

[LooseWilly]

6. Does that mean that Evan Bayh

and the Blue Dogs are gonna be the next big hit?...

Ahh well, what the hell? I've always been a proponent of a multi-party system, rather than a strictly 2 party system. Without a parliamentary system though... well well, politics here in the States might just get interesting... Chaotic jockeying within the Democratic party to build enough of a consensus behind some platform or other... While the Evangelical Nut-Jobbers are left out in the cold...
I'll drink to that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. In principle I fully agree, and a problem with the constitution

We need proportional representation... but to do that we need to rewrite some major parts of that document

[SoCalDem]

7. The dregs of the republican party will always be with us

They will be leaner and a LOT meaner..

they will "win" fewer elections, but they will always have a warm, comfy home with the hate radio folks and in print, courtesy of a plethora of "think-tanks" and right wing ownership of media..

They will end up the party of bumpkins & illiterates,homophobes & religious zealots & angry, well-armed idealogues... a very dangerous, if small, presence:(

[Fire1]

9. I still think they are better suited for the 'dark side.' It's like a

bad date. Nothing in common.

[geckosfeet]

10. Keep your foot on its throat until it stops moving.

Then crush its skull with a rock.