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Oct. 31st, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithGiven the conclusions of this blog post and others like it:
So what’s next for the GOP? I don’t think that Obama hate will win the party any more traction than it gave McCain. They need a positive agenda, unfortunately their platform was already on the wrong side of history when Gingrich etched it in granite in 1994. The recent add-ons – torture, belligerent wars, islamophobic fear – already had a skin of mold when Dick Cheney rolled them out in 2001. If John McCain, who honestly isn’t as stupid as his campaign has made him look, had any winning issues he would run on them. It’s not like he has not tried. They are stuck with random, flaining personal attacks because the surge in Iraq, offshore drilling, the capital gains tax, an unlicensed plumber with a tax lien, have all the traction of a Yugo in Alaska.
What's next? A retooling of the GOP, or the formation of a third party which would contain moderate/left Republicans (I know they're out there--I know some) and Blue Dog-variety Dems? I can see that as being an attractive alternative for many people.
So what’s next for the GOP? I don’t think that Obama hate will win the party any more traction than it gave McCain. They need a positive agenda, unfortunately their platform was already on the wrong side of history when Gingrich etched it in granite in 1994. The recent add-ons – torture, belligerent wars, islamophobic fear – already had a skin of mold when Dick Cheney rolled them out in 2001. If John McCain, who honestly isn’t as stupid as his campaign has made him look, had any winning issues he would run on them. It’s not like he has not tried. They are stuck with random, flaining personal attacks because the surge in Iraq, offshore drilling, the capital gains tax, an unlicensed plumber with a tax lien, have all the traction of a Yugo in Alaska.
What's next? A retooling of the GOP, or the formation of a third party which would contain moderate/left Republicans (I know they're out there--I know some) and Blue Dog-variety Dems? I can see that as being an attractive alternative for many people.
