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Originally Posted by crockett
This is why the Republican party is doomed they have split too far apart.. All the crazies are running the loony bin and anyone that appeals to them doesn't appeal to the more sensible and certainly doesn't appeal to anyone on the left or swing voters.
Anyone that appears to be middle of the road or even close is a evil commie socialist. I mean hell the tea party in NV, Az or where ever he's from, censured John McCain for being too liberal.. That should tell yea something..
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This is the key really. They've catered to an under-informed but highly passionate fringe of the party, who is now able to drive GOP (and American Right in general) policy by simply threatening in the primaries.
Thing is, that fringe's approach is nihilistic - they don't believe in compromise and they're completely naive about how governing works, so instead of a give-and-take and actually getting shit done and maybe getting their particular REAL agendas passed, they've collapsed into temper tantrums and the party of No.
It's telling that Barry Goldwater, the uber-conservative of generations past, would not be welcome in today's GOP. He'd at best be a fringe guy like Huntsman and more likely have to go the independent route. They've basically lost their minds. And like I said, that's a shame because conservatives can contribute a lot of great ideas to national policy, but in their current form they're doing nothing of the sort. Eventually a bloc of relatively sane conservatives are going to say enough-is-enough and there will be a schism, the only reason it hasn't happened yet is that it would basically hand the country to the Dems for the next several election cycles. Even I don't think that would be ideal, though part of me says let it happen because the Dems are the only ones remotely trying to get anything done and bring ideas to the table.