[quote=ocrenter]no, the demise of the GOP is definitely not a good thing.
moderates will continue their exit, leaving the party firmly and fully in the Christian Right. The Christian Right GOP will pick Palin for 2012, Obama wins 70% of the popular vote. [/quote]
Oh please….
Although I’m not a member of either party, I do follow politics closely. The fact is, Arlen Specter didn’t leave the republicans after 45 years because of the right wing influence. Rather, he left the party to save his own ass. Recent polls showed Specter well behind his republican challenger in the 2010 primary. And the reason he is well behind in the polls is due to his support for the bailouts and other big government interventionist programs. In 2010 there will be a huge opportunity for the republicans to regain congress if they start acting like responsible fiscal conservatives. The reason republicans lost control of congress in 2006 was due to their lack of fiscal contraint, as well as their interventionist foreign policy which turned sour in Iraq.
If anything, the republicans became the big government party they so often campaigned against.
