[New Jersey Realist]

Great analogy.

[Gay State Conservative]

I see a problem with this analogy right off the bat.Back then,Pepsi wasn't being given away.Today's “Pepsi” is being given away...and you and I are paying for it.

[NTHockey]

Back then, my dad drove a Pepsi truck. Naturally, we were a Pepsi family. The rivalry was intense, right down to how many aisles you got on the supermarket shelves. Pepsi, in the 10 oz. bottle and Coke in the 6 1/2 oz. both cost a nickel. The 16 oz. Pepsi sold for a dime.

Summers during high school, I worked with my dad, hauling those heavy wooden crates and metal cartons for 12 hours a day, got me in shape.

My problem with the analogy is, unlike Coke and Pepsi, what we are seeing isthe suicide of the Whigs rather than a well-thought out plan. Sure, New Coke failed, but there waws a busines decision involved. With the Whigs, it’s “Can’t we all just get along”.

[buffaloguy]

When I was in college there was vending machine outside of a gas station that vended Coke in glass bottles. Apparently some genius had figured out how to set the machine to keep the Coke at 32.50 degrees. It was the best soda I have ever had. That first swig was breathtaking.

I miss that.

[Tupelo]

In my opinion, the GOP is as dead as “New Coke”. As i was reading this column, I started thinking about Republican Presidents. I am in my 70s and when I think back there is only two that I can say I still admire.
Two in 70+ years?
Then think back over the past 112 years. Three. Three?
How many Democrat Presidents from the same period do you think are still admired and respected by the Democrat rank & file?
My guess is every one of them. Seven, I think.

[Erasmus]

However, in the early 1980’s, Pepsi starting outselling Coke. After a few years of hand wringing and worry, on April 23, 1985, the Coca Cola Company—and this is still emotionally straining as I write this–abandoned its century old formula and introduced—sigh—“New Coke.”

Notice that he is careful not to say "original" formula, and most of us know why.