What Next for the GOP?

[Tribesman]

do you mind backing up that claim?

Try the FCC they were the ones that got the complaints about Boortz

[Hooahguy]

Try the FCC they were the ones that got the complaints about Boortz

o ya, i remember that!
he was joking though. if you heard the broadcast, that is.
he got some nasty emails after that and the next day clearly expressed that he was, in fact, joking, and later caleld the people who he offended and apologized.
no ones perfect, i guess.

[Koga No Goshi]

The Democratic party has done nothing to change since its landslide losses to Reagan and its minority years during the GW Bush administration. It learned absolutely nothing from its losses and if anything, has become more stubborn and arrogant and moved further to the left than ever before. One could say that the Democrats are back in power due to nothing more than a cyclical change of events. The Republican party has had enjoyed a great deal of momentum for a very long time now and was due for a fall. Now add GW Bush & the Neo-Conservative movement and boom, fall from grace and we're back to a pre-Reagan Democratic dominated political landscape.

That's because, I believe, the Dem Party loses not as a direct result of how "left" it is-- that decides the issue only for ideological right-wingers-- who would not be voting for a Dem in almost any circumstances anyway. But rather because of both misdirection and a propaganda war to both say the Dems are left and equate left as a bad thing, even in the center and among moderates. Zogby studies back during '04 showed that Republicans misidentify which platforms belong to which parties much, much more often than Democrats do, and tend to believe that Democratic platforms which "sound good" floating around without a party attachment, are actually Republican platforms-- and vice-versa with the bad sounding stuff. In short, on the right, there has been a pounded in notion from talk radio and dinner table discussions that if it's a good, desirable or smart idea... it's probably Repubican. And if it's a dumb, unworkable idea, the left probably loves it. A very simple ingroup/outgroup outlook on the issues.

We lose in the propaganda, rhetoric, and lockstepping on the same talking points war -- we rarely lose on the issues themselves. 99% of Republicans all using exactly the same catchy buzzline that they are for middle America will resonate with the voters-- regardless of whether or not those Republicans have a voting record which bears out the rhetoric.