[New Jersey Realist]

A fact of life is: When republicans engage in acts of torture it is wrong. When democrats engage in acts of torture is is OK. Got it?

[muawiyah]

The whole point is to ultimately get more votes or our guys than the other side gets ~ and in single member districts there are only ever going to be two major poles of politics ~ or one if you are infiltrated by commies or criminals (see: Democrat party).

Gay voters will follow the money. Our traditionalists do not vote for Republicans if they perceive that the party, or a major part of the party, has gay leadership. With the traditionalists making up the majority of the party's supporters, and also making up most of the various Conservative coalition partners, there would seem to be no reason whatsoever to bring Christie or the gay crowd onto the stage for a round of applause.

[oldbrowser]

The next two days saw Sens. Mutt and Jeff avail themselves of every possible opportunity to try to devalue what Sen. Paul accomplished.

I suspect that Mutt & Jeff were getting ready to announce some great compromise/surrender with Obama when Paul stole the spotlight.

[stars & stripes forever]

McCain and Lindsay know the young Turks are rising. In order to hang on to their perks and power, they would rather side with those on the opposite spectrum than give an inch to those who can (and will) make a difference.

[GBA]

Nothing lasts forever and that's definitely the case with political parties, especially if you have an opponent who knows how to divide such a loose and ideologically sloppy group like the currently constituted GOP.

Find a banner, a cause based upon principles that people will hold up in the air, rally around, follow and fight for, and go from there.

Plenty of causes, but finding principles that enough can agree upon is the harder chore. That's always been the republican challenge, but a much more difficult one today for some reason.

Perhaps it's because they've let everyone else define them instead of doing it themselves and then just went with that. Now, they don't really stand for anything.