NTHockey:
“Are you ready for Speaker Pelosi II? Get used to it, because the GOP is going down in flames in 2014”
Veritas_et_libertas:
“The 2014 elections are a big concern. I loathe to imagine the presidency and both chambers of congress under the control of democrats.”
I had put up a post earlier today to this effect, that — right now — the GOP is setting itself up to lose in 2014, possibly a crushing loss.
But wait, someone will jump in and say. “The party-in-power ALWAYS loses in the midterm elections”.
This truism comes from the same people who only a month ago told us that a sitting president with Obama’s economic numbers could never be re-elected. Yet he won in the face of presiding over one of the worst economies ever (only FDR beat him on that one).
It’s almost as if the old economic rules of winning elections don’t mean nuthin’ no mo’.
Not in the age of the ObamaPhone, Social Security Disability, and the self-refilling EBT card.
Even though the “old rules” are crumbling, what isn’t yet apparent is how “the new rules” will work, all the time. We have seen how _some_ of them worked _this time_.
There may be additional new rules as-of-yet unrevealed.
The Republican party is beginning to fade away as a national political party, and is changing into a more “regional” one. To remain a national party, you must remain [nationally] competitive — and it’s apparent that there are now large swaths of the country in which the Pubbies can no longer credibly compete (California, New York, Washington, Illinois, Maryland, and the entire region of New England). A number of other states seem to be on the verge of “tipping to the blue side”, including Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. Even stalwart Texas is going to start having problems delivering to the Republicans within 15-20 years.
The clock is ticking....
The GOPe moves against conservatives will get them crushed in 2014. You can pretty much count on that.