The White House is lost, scandal is rife and a certain lady in Alaska has resigned her governorship. The Republican Party is, by any measure, a mess. Can it bounce back? Only if it radically alters its political leanings. Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
"Is the party over for the Republicans?" Other observers were asking the same question nine months ago. This being a British paper, though, I'm willing to take it on its face. Cornwell makes as good a case as any that, yes, it is over. The strength of this story is in the comparison to the Labor takeover in 1997, although I'd like to see some evidence that Tony Blair's popularity was "comparable" to Obama's.
To understand the state of the GOP, one need look no farther than the Birther movement and the party's de facto co-chairs, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh, none of whom, it can now be said, hold public office.
Last autumn’s financial crisis and the current recession in the US, by contrast, were mainly brought about by a Republican free-market philosophy run wild. The Crash ... More »
The analysis documents recent GOP failures--not only in the polls, but also in the ideologies, and postulates how far from where the party is today, it will have to travel in any comeback attempt. Its strength is in its assembly of one failure after another; its weakness is the omission of potential Democratic blunders.
The assessment failed to take into account how the party can make a comeback if the Democrats push through their agenda on the backs of future generations with trillion-dollar debts--a mistake that will unite Republicans with Libertarians and Conservatives.
Not a whole lot new here. Everyone knows (or should know) by now that the GOP is running on empty. As analysis, it is closer to opinion than reporting as it provides much more argument to support its thesis than reporting.
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