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Twenty-first century America is simply less white, less Protestant and less male, in terms of the electorate, than it used to be. Two-thirds of Hispanic voters embraced Obama, as did 95 percent of African Americans, 77 percent of Jewish voters, a majority of women, and 70 percent of young voters.
But what of those “culture of life Catholics,” those “Reagan Democrats,” said to be key to the election? Obama won not only a majority of the Catholic vote, but -- in a blow to the conservative dream of equating religious fervor with Republicanism -- split evenly with Sen. John McCain among weekly Mass attendees.

....Political scientist Norman Ornstein writes: “For Republicans, the danger is that their only reliable voting bloc may remain older white guys. Make that older Protestant white guys. Ouch.”

This guy’s got it drop dead correct. I’ve seen it coming for years. The people who support the GOP live in a fantasy world. The “Country Club” set of the GOP don’t give a hoot about anything except offshoring their profits and ensuring they don’t miss the last plane out. The GOP is done; when they call I tell them I only want them to do me a favor..............I want my refund!

The real problem is that conservatives have not spent a penny, nor given a minute, to the idea of cultivating conservative candidates. They always work off the idea that they just spring up out of nowhere. This is like hoping you grow corn when you haven’t planted corn.

Conservatives of all varieties should set up a perpetual 20 year plan for candidates. Most of the year is schooling about how to be both candidates and congressmen and senators. Then they have to act as part of successful incumbents campaign staffs for at least one election before they can run themselves.

This would mean that not only would they be prepared to run a race with a good expectation of winning, but they would also enter the job knowing how to do their job, and also knowing how to avoid pitfalls.

And throughout the whole thing, the lesson that is pounded into their heads is that party discipline wins all the way around. Going off on your own, unless the party authorizes it, which sometimes it does, is a recipe for both individual and collective disaster.

If conservatives would do this, it would guarantee conservative rule for decades.

The “conservative” movement in this country has been infiltrated and divided by socialists, thereby causing it’s downfall.

We let the media define “conservatism,” which is now thought of as “the FAR religious right.” It will be the death of our country.

I think it is wrong focus: I mean, on race and Protestantism.

He is correct that the Buckley/Reagan conservative coalition is broken, but the fault lines are fiscal conservatism vs. militarist globalism and cultural conservatism vs. permissive libertarianism. These are diverse worldviews and McCain lacked a unifying message, so the old coalition wandered off in various directions. I, for example, wrote in Chuck Baldwin.

I’d be the first to say that theological differences between Catholics and Protestants are profound. I would also venture as far as to say that they ultimately will find their expression in politics. But I don’t see the present rightwing politics reflect the theological divisions, not yet.

With John McCain, and a bunch of other RINOs in 2008 and 2006, the Republicans did not give Catholic or Reagan Democrats anyone to vote for.

As long as RINOs are running the party, the Republicans will be out of touch with the bulk of honest, moral hard-working Americans who are overwhelmingly conservative.

Even as the party sinks lower into an abyss with RINO policies, its leadership and the suck-up pundits are demanding the party further depart from its conservative values and adopt Democrat-lite ones.

Don’t expect much change until the whole leadership cabal - RNC, RNCC, RSSC, etc. is cleaned out.