I don’t dispute that the Republican party has a future, and perhaps the author of this piece doesn’t dispute that either. I think the real question is whether or not the limited government, conservative Republican Party has a future. People will still vote for Republicans and Republicans will still win elections, probably. But will those Republicans be big government socialists in favor of tax cuts and deficits (as opposed to big government socialist Democrats in favor of tax increases and deficits)?
Stretching imagination; if a third party candidate takes the presidency (ie: some rino in denial), pubbies will lose a lot more than rats.
Super stretching imagination; the scorecard of party switchers would be fast, furious and probably down right ugly without even a kiss goodbye. :-)
Well, that’s up to the folks who are going to be voting in the primaries next year - and those folks tend to have long memories.
All this reminds me of Sandy Tatum - he used to be head of the United States Golf Association (there’ll be a point here; bear with me now).
The USGA among other things runs the US Open, which is known for being the single-toughest test of golf each year because of the way the USGA sets up the course - long rough, fast greens, that sort of thing.
One particularly brutal year one of the players complained to Mr Tatum that it seemed the USGA was intending to humiliate the players.
Mr Tatum replied: “We’re not trying to embarrass the best players in the world, we’re trying to identify them.”
Even so with this brouhaha - we are finding out whether the GOP is worthy of remaining the party of conservatives or not.
Do the GOP conservatives, CPites and the more hawkish Libertarians join forces to toss out the RINOs, and then do the RINOs and more reasonable Dems join up to toss out the Barking Moonbats (BM for short), forcing them to join forces with the Greenies?
That wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen, to my mind - we’d have two parties that can be taken seriously, rather than the one-half party we have now.