I predict...
A third party of conservatives will abandon the Republican party.
However, it will not REPLACE the Republican party, but only DESTROY it.
The democrats will emerge even more triumphant than they were in 2008.
They will then look around, and do the things to make their ascendary permanent.
Goodbye America as we new it.
The perfect is indeed the enemy of the good.
Go ahead and doubt me, and I will beg you to be true! But it will not change what I predict.
AB - You paint a dreary, but possibly accurate picture...unless, unless the DEMOCRAT party changes.
Are there no cracks in that monolithic boogeyman? Do we have to send in Bilbo to ferret out the secret path through the mountain (rather than over or under it)?
Sure, Zel Miller and Joe Lieberman came back on their shields, but there must be a strategy to divide and conquor the many factions. Historically Democrats were not so cohesive. The Dem-elite comes out and says OK we are pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-amnesty, pro-Gay.. you name it, and they all “seem” to buy in. But do they? We know Blacks are not that wild about Gays or a new wave of Hispanics to displace them in job pool. Many Hispanics have conventional values and morarlity. I mean, we should be trying to recruit all these factions. Educate, educate!
Don’t just roll over and show them your tummy and wag your tail. Do something.
I completely agree that a large part of the electorate are as dumb as rocks. Yet, I still maintain there's more of us than of them. Best evidence I have are the 2010 elections.
With 2012, you're correct about the ground games. In lots of locations, Romney had no functioning organization while Obama did. Add to that a Republican candidate who most of the base didn't like and in hindsight, the result looked predictable.
As I consider this Republican party a willing collaborator with implementing the leftist/Obama agenda, I'm not so sure the Republican party isn't already destroyed. What do they stand for again? What do they stand against (other than Conservatism) again?
I have some fairly simple prerequisites or values I use in determining whether I'll vote for a candidate.
I'm opposed to a bigger Federal government including Obamacare and Dodd/Frank. I'm opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens and opposed to abortion. That's it, not even taking into account any social issues.
Here's the rub....I suspect my values likely parallel those of numerous others, probably a plurality of Republican voters. Perfection? Hardly. Yet, off the top of my head, I can only think of a couple of Presidential potentials who fulfill my simple three prerequisites. That to me speaks volumes.