Quote:I think you're oversimplifying things a bit here. I mean, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that 48% of US voters are Democrats and 39% are Republicans, right? Maybe if the Republican Party would quit pandering to the far religious right and put a stop to that silly little tea party of theirs, alienated Republicans and centrists would start voting for the R again.

 

You have this exactly backwards, the Republican party is no longer the party of its own base. They are Demos Light and most conservatives want nothing to do with them. The Tea Party movement was the last chance for the conservatives to retake the party, now that they failed the Republicans will go the way of the Whigs.

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