Friday, January 02, 2009

Is GOP dead?

Say Republican and what do you think of? Abraham Lincoln. Teddy Rooslevelt. Eisenhower.

So, how did we go from I Like Ike to laughing about someone tossing shoes at Bush. Easy. Because, the GOP just ain't what she used to be.

It all started with Nixon with his outrageous paranoia. Then, it was elevated with Reagan's "Good Morning in America" blindness. The sad part about Reagan was that we had elected a senile old man who was probably in the early stages of Alzheimer's before he was sworn in to a position where his finger was near the atomic button.

Can Bush be the final nail in the coffin?

Probably not. Republicans are still going to be around but I think they will return to the third party status from which they evolved nearly 150 years ago.

The recent election has shown that the majority of Republican voters are southerners and white. More importantly, it has shown it is the party of the ignorant, by allowing all those false emails being spread as the gospel. It is the party of the racists. If one Democrat made a comment about McCain's disabilities, the Republicans would have had a shit fit, yet, they told us to chill out when they wanted to call Obama Osama and talk about welfare babies this and fist pump terrorist that.

Under Bush and the Republican controlled Congress and Senate, America became a nation of hate and intolerance. The recent incident involving nine Muslims kicked off an airplane for having a conversation that wouldn't have turned heads if it had been said by white people is proof. The GOP wants America to return to the utopia white Americans were promised in the 1950's where they thought blacks and other people of color knew their place.

Hopefully, that doesn't happen.

If the Republicans want to rebound in 2010, they must see the hypocrisy written on the wall. It's time to drop the whole conservative label because I've realized that most conservatives aren't Christians in the true sense, nor are they willing to fight for their country. The only think conservatives care about is pushing their own agenda of do what we say.

Well, GOP, you have less than 2 years until the next election. I wouldn't waste a single day if I was you.

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