This is what happens when the GOP moves to left, as it has under President Bush. I still like the man personally, and I think he’s done some positive things, but his brand of “compassionate conservatism” has had the effect of marginalizing true conservatives in the party.
The most obvious issue is amnesty, where the President’s rhetoric played right into the Democrat and media portrayal of people who merely wish to enforce the law as bigots and extremists.
In all likelihood, we’re entering an era of Democrat dominance from which we cannot emerge. After FDR’s landslide in 1932, the GOP moved left and stayed there for over thirty years. Whenever someone like Robert Taft came along and tried to move the party to the right, he was purged and the party brass all got together to deny him the nomination. During these years, the GOP was a virtual permanent minority except for two flukish congressional elections (1946 & 1952) and the election of moderate Eisenhower, who won because of his military background.
We’re heading into another such period. But we won’t come out of it in 30 years because by that time whites will be a minority and we’ll be essentially a one-party nation.
Sad to say, I think you’re correct. Thank goodness politicians are not my saviours.