On today’s political spectrum, Eisenhower would be a flaming liberal. Eisenhower wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near today’s Republican Party. What’s more, he wouldn’t want to be. Read Eisenhower’s “Cross of Iron” speech and try to visualize any Republican today saying something like that.
The people you speak of may not have left the Republican Party, but the Republican Party has surely left them.
It’s true the average Fox News channel viewer is 71 or so, but the GOP’s real problem has been appealing to the non-septigenarian crowd. Still white, mostly male, but also fairly uneducated and a little bit Dunning-Kruger. You’re talking about the kids that sat in the back of the class, ate paint, and attached firecrackers to small animals.
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” - Pierre Trudeau
Best analogy ever. As a Canadian, I fervently hope our largest trading partner manages to get rid of these Tea Party “grunts” pretty soon. If your economy crashes, who will buy all our oil? 
This is the Karl Rove playbook at work looking forward towards the elections. The toadies and the paid political shills are doing their jobs as expected. I see that Rove’s everywhere in the news lately as well, and that’s never accidental. Rove was always going to go after the Teabaggers for the benefit of establishment CoC and Wall Street-type Republicans. This is how their two worlds will now collide. I seriously hope they bowl into each other and each is blown into smithereens in the process. A rip in the space-time continuum is what we should expect as these two freakish entities come crashing into one another.
It’s a delicate dance that those Rovian assholes are doing now. They don’t want to alienate too many of these Republican baggers all at once, or they may have to go fishing for Democratic voters to make up for their losses if their sudden appeal is rejected by their own party.
This rant doesn’t represent so much a guy whose moving more to the left, as it really is a guy who’s throwing off the libertarianism and batshit crazy hubris of the intolerant and anti-government far right. Republicans will still find some way of holding onto a fair amount of hubris and intolerance as they always have, to appeal to a sizable mostly old white male electorate. They no longer have much of a choice. They’ve managed to insult everyone else along the way, and there’s no taking any of that back. Just cue the video-tape…there’s a full amount of proof still out there to club them over the head when needed.
Hey GOP, people are getting fed up with your bullshit! How about you all actually legislate like we elected you to do? Filthy scum!
what the hell does “his conservative father” think about the two hundred plus marines who were blown away in lebanon? where those wmds in iraq disappeared to? why the house of representatives have voted 50 times to repeal the aca? why the house of representatives have already had thirteen committee investigations of benghazi! and found zip? just wondering.
I would say it goes back even into the 1970s with the GOPs Southern Strategy, which worked beautifully for the party for a while, by concentrating/distilling conservatives into one party. Each step following pulled farther to the right than the one before, be it Regan, then Gingrich, followed by W/Cheney/Rove, and now with the Tea Party. The Christian Right played a key role in organizing and funding, especially as you noted, but this has been a decades long spiral that doesn’t seem to end.
I still think anyone with a liberal bent is going to be disappointed with the Democrats, come what may, due simply to the broad umbrella it’s becoming outside of the crazy GOP.
I have thirty year old daughter who became more politically aware around the age of 25, and the far right wing of the party is the only “Republican” connotation she recognizes. She has never known the Republican party as the CNBC guy describes it and is constantly amazed that some of my staunchest friends and allies are Republicans, because they are old school Republicans that are still capable of give and take on ideas and information, problems and solutions to those problems. Damn cryin’ shame what the GOP has allowed itself to become.
Didn’t you mean "mis-underestimate?:
You are right about the Scarboro show. For the most part, these are not serious people.
Then they need to take their party back and stop with the “Take Our Country Back” bullshit.
He’s right, there is no Republican Party. It’s a club for people who still believe trickle-down works, mixed up with a few racists and homophobes. It’s a hate-group lite. Political parties come up with ideas, and aren’t hell bent on party before country like the GOP is.
BENGAZZZZZIIIIII!!! Its almost like a dog whistle that rational people can’t hear and conservatives can’t think outside of when it’s trumpeted.
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Well, yes, but remember that Eisenhower was pursued by both the Dems and the GOP, and made up his mind at the last minute to run as a Republican. Maybe he liked their “country club/golf” promises…
And then he governed as a progressive, with corporate tax rates in the 90s, and lots of infrastructure projects. No “trickle-down” economic voodoo for old Ike!
Nominating Jeb risks the exposure to the horrific failure and embarrassment of the W administration, along with the dim-witted brother whose name they cannot speak. They should have nominated Jeb in 2000, as Babs suggested (Jeb’s the smart one" she casually revealed in an interview).
Now it’s too late. W’s already shit in everyone’s shoes.
To the physical Republican, who believes in smaller government and at times the LARGER government…REALLY, I’m sure RANCHER Bumdy would agree on some level with you…So, he probably doesn’t believe in regulations. Republicans make my blood boil.
By not switching parties, people like this are just enabling and encouraging the crazies. If you really want to send a message, instead of ranting on TV and still pulling the R lever in the voting booth, start pulling the D lever.
All the rants in the world won’t make a difference. Voting out the GOP will.
Oh, I agree that his time has come and gone. Like I said, he WON’T get elected because he CAN’T get elected. But they have to nominate someone and who else is there? The curly headed simp?
Lucky for him Joe wasn’t there; he was probably watching, with his head exploding. Brian Sullivan was good, but don’t think he will be invited back … ever!