We acknowledge the need for a multiparty system. I would like to see more than two major parties. This us or them thing is painful, third option anybody. The Green Party is not taking off like a cannon.
Personally, I see two glaring problems with the GOP. They are hopelessly linked to the Evangelical right and as such the gay marriage, anti-abortion issues becomes the fundamental vision. That's fine but tack onto those two non shakeable pillars of ideology - anything else possibly something about how people move into the future in a collectively progressive way. Its unlikely we return to a 1950's leave it to beaver world of white picket fences and disasters surrounding a failed casserole. That never actually existed.
The second problem is the free reign of the "neo conservatives" or as Bush's father George H W Bush called them - the crazies. Guess what, they are still rabidly crazy, witness the 8 year Bush debacle which we are not rehashing at the moment.
Call to all moderate Republicans - reclaim your party. We are pleading with you.
Salon: The GOP's last chance: Become Democrats
...Republican thinkers have pondered what went wrong, searched their souls -- and decided that the way to regain power is to move further to the right.NY Times: The Moose Stops Here by Frank Rich
Coulter wrote, "The only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive..."
As national security has faded, the last thing holding the right together is its hatred of the Democrats and everything they stand for. This glue still binds the party's ideologically driven base.
The worse news for the country is that at a time of genuine national peril we actually do need an opposition party that is not brain-dead.
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