“… he and his cronies and the manufactured outrage of the Tea Party failed to derail Health Care Reform. Failed Mr. Boehner. You lost. You blew it. … American political parties have disappeared before. They are never forced out by their rivals. They die by their own hands, because they did not know that the hatred or the myopia or the monomania they thought was still okay wasn’t okay, any more. … You are rapidly moving from ‘The Party of No,’ past ‘The Party Of No Conscience,’ towards ‘The Party of No Relevancy.’ You are behind the wheel of a political Toyota. And before the mid-terms, you will have been reduced to only bein this generation’s home for the nuts.” — Keith Olbermann’s special comment, Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Keeping our eyes on demise at www.michaelmoore.com

First they had "palling around with terrorists", then "Country First" and then "Bobby Jindal exorcism", and they all only have proved to the American people that the GOP is not willing to work with Congress and the Obama administration. Should their campaign theme in 2010 be "Let’s get nothing done!" so that they can prove their power in going against the President’s agenda?

People of all races, sexes, sexual orientation, religions, age groups and ethnic backgrounds voted for President Obama. Who does the GOP think it can sway ?

I think Miss California is winning GOP’s heart as it is. Palin needs a come back other than letting that other immoral daughter of hers to preach about safe sex.

Rush and chaney seem to be the leaders and the mouth of the GOP.

With all indicators saying the economy will start to bounce back within a year, and the gradual withdrawal from Iraq, the Dems. will be in pretty good shape in 2012. Like it or not, the Dems, will take credit for a better economy, and the pullout of Iraq. All the Dems will need to do is shore up the appearance of the deficit, and they will have a trifecta. This being said, what strategy will the GOP use to compete with this?

Let me ask you, before 2008 did anyone outside of Chicago know who Barack Obama was?

Right now the GOP is focused on election of this year, 2012 is still far ahead in the road so we could come up with serious candidate,

So don’t celebrate libbies, Obama could lose and the liberal dream of having a one party rule just like Soviet Russia and have the DEMONcrat party govern the U.S could be shattered.

When asked what the supporters think about Obama’s false promises of tax credits, rebates, etc.. why do they instantly refer to the Bush administration’s faults? Why can’t they defend their own soon to be president without drawing on a past GOP example? Is it because Obama will circumvent any negative criticism by saying the magic word "change"?

I hear Republican political rallies are a foot-stomping good time! The theme song of the GOP is "It’s Raining Men!"

Seriously, though, it is old news that those who hate gays are all gay themselves. Didn’t anyone tell President Bush’s followers that?
Ron Paul IS an old school Republican. He could go a long way towards ridding the GOP of the stink of Bush.
Pono7, I think the issue of gay-bashing has retreated somewhat in the last year or so. It rallies the base of the Republican Party but doesn’t reach across political lines and someone like Romney who will have to reach across divides–he’s a Yankee, a Mormon and from a state the hard right loves to bash, so if hiring gays opens him up a little bit to more potential voters he’ll do it.

I know the story behind the Democratic Party’s symbol being the Donkey, that Andrew Jackson started it and a cartoonist got it going. I know that reasoning, I just wanted to know why the Republican Party’s symbol is an elephant? I know that the Republicans are the GOP, Grand Old Party, and I just wanted to know why that was there symbol. Did it have anything to do with Lincoln being the first true Republican? What is the story behind it? Links would be great. Thank you.