Well, I'm glad we are on the same side. We had so much in fighting in 2008, that I feel like a REAL minority in every sense.
I'm afraid I don't master the issues as much as you do. I am not good at details, but I hava a general 'sense' of where things are going politically speaking.
Will the GOP win the next election?????.... Frankly I doubt it. We lost a lot of people during the last 8 years. There was a time when the Republican Party seemed to have a good image. I think that is gone... for many reasons. The point is, I believe in the theory of the Pendulum... it swings back and forth... and I am afraid it will take some time before the pendulum swings back in favor of the Republicans.
If the party abandoms all stands on moral issues, then I don't know what will actually happen to this party. I know that it would not be MY party anymore... But the problem is where do we social-go?... I simply can not call myself a DEMOCRAT, even if I voted for it. So, there has to be a another choice.
So far, we are trying, conservatives, you and I, since we are on the same side to shape it so that it will be BETTER than the Democrats, but let's not forget, a lot of people - or so it seems - do not agree with us.
There MUST be another choice, a REAL "Conservative-party" on all issues: monetary and moral issues. One that perhaps will attract conservative-democrats that don't feel confortable with the party's stands on social issues.
Lastly, I am NOT saying.. LET'S BRAKE UP AT ALL COST!.. No... But, let's keep our minds open. Obviously a social-conservative party, would be part of the Republican party, because we also identify with other issues (small gov't, gun rights, etc), but we would not be taken for GRANTED anymore. Ok, I could ramble a lot more and I probably would never finish, so that is all for now.
Let me ask you? What would be so terrible if we created a Third party? The "Social-Conservative" ?:).. Right off the bat we are saying: We care for the culture, including the right of the MILITARY to be free of homos distracting them when their life if on the line. Like the boys-scouts, the MIlitary is NEXT on their list... CAN YOU PICTURE IT?.... Yuchhh... Oh..ok, enough for now :). Take care
I think Obama and his 53% of the votes would love that, just as much as we would love for unmarried moms or some other large liberal group to leave the democrat party and carry themselves off into the third party world of irrelevance.