"The Republican Party Will Adapt, Evolve or Die

This pretty much nails it. I think you backed the wrong horse there, Admiral.

>>>When a cranky anarchist in a cowboy hat starts a sentence saying "I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," you can be dang sure it's going downhill from there.

The unsettling thing about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's ugly rant on the Virgin River on Saturday, The New York Times' Adam Nagourney told me, was that there was no negative reaction from the semicircle of gun-toting and conspiracy-minded supporters who had gathered round to hear it. The oblivious 67-year-old Bundy, who has refused for 20 years to pay for his cattle to graze on our land, offered a nostalgic ode to slavery.

Recalling that he saw African-Americans sitting on the porch of a public-housing project in North Las Vegas who seemed to have "nothing to do," Bundy declaimed: "They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy?"

The man hailed as a "savior" and "folk hero" by Fox News doubled down Thursday, declaring: "Cliven Bundy's a-wondering" if the black community was happier during slave days when "they was in the South in front of their homes with their chickens and their gardens and their children around them and their men having something to do."
By Friday, he was saying that all Americans are slaves to the government and comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Just another dark-ages bigot who goes nuts at the idea that whites are losing clout in an America run by a New Age black president. What's the use of being white, after all, if you can't be king of the hill - even if the hill really belongs to the government?

Conservatives saw no hypocrisy in rallying around Bundy for breaking the law, refusing to pay between $1 and $2 a month per cow to graze on federal land, while they refuse to consider amnesty for illegal immigrants committing Acts of Love.
Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky who wants to be the GOP presidential nominee, took almost a day to distance himself from Bundy. Paul was so worried about alienating the segment of the party that will decide the nomination, he couldn't even respond quickly to say the most simple thing on earth: Racism is bad.
As BuzzFeed reported, Chris McDaniel, a GOP state senator mounting a strong challenge to Thad Cochran in the Mississippi Republican primary, has written blog posts blaming the "welfare dependent citizens of New Orleans" for not finding higher ground during Katrina, charging that "Mexicans" entering the country are hurting "our culture" and calling racial profiling of Muslims a "victory for common sense."

After making noise about reaching out to women (even as Senate Republicans unanimously blocked a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act and Republican legislatures around the country pass more abortion restrictions), the GOP now has Det Bowers out there doing marital counseling. Politico reported that the wacky evangelical minister, who is challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, once asserted that 95 percent of broken marriages are caused by women giving more attention to their children than to their husbands.

It's a measure of how hallucinogenic conservatives are that they are trying to re-litigate slavery during the second term of the first African-American president.

Earlier this month, Jim DeMint, tea-party godfather and president of the Heritage Foundation, bizarrely told a Christian radio station that it was not "big government" that freed the slaves, but "the conscience of the American people" and Abraham Lincoln, a Republican. (Umm, wasn't he big government along with his hundreds of thousands of troops?)

In another case of inexplicable foot-dragging, Rand Paul was reluctant to cut loose Jack Hunter, his social media director and co-author on a Tea Party book, after the media wrote about his past life as a shock jock named the Southern Avenger who advocated secession, wore a Confederate flag mask, toasted John Wilkes Booth, and complained that whites are "not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity" because anything "that is considered 'too white' is immediately suspect."
At Harvard's Institute of Politics, Paul said "The Republican Party will adapt, evolve or die." He may want to listen to his own advice.


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My money is on the GOP dying. They will never adapt or evolve.

My money is on the GOP dying. They will never adapt or evolve. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Adapt, evolve, bipartisan - They are all words for caving to the liberal way of thinking and they are what got McCain and Romney beat. We don't need democrats in both parties. A true conservative would have beaten Obama either time.

Adapt, evolve, bipartisan - They are all words for caving to the liberal way of thinking and they are what got McCain and Romney beat. We don't need democrats in both parties. A true conservative would have beaten Obama either time. Originally Posted by filbone

You're too stupid to see the irony in your statements. You and those like you are why COG is correct. You're too dumb to understand that the people who decide the elections, the middle and the independents, don't subscribe to shit like this Bundy clown being a hero, they don't give a shit about Bengazi and they do not have Obama Derangement Syndrome.

A "true conservative" would have lost to Obama by a much larger margin than Romney did....and a "true conservative" will lose to Hillary by a larger margin than Romney lost to Obama. In order to take the White House back, the GOP has got to have a mainstream candidate. It's Bush or Christie.

Adapt, evolve, bipartisan - They are all words for caving to the liberal way of thinking and they are what got McCain and Romney beat. We don't need democrats in both parties. A true conservative would have beaten Obama either time. Originally Posted by filbone

Speaking of living in a dream world!

If the GOP rushes thru amnesty; they will collapse sooner than anyone expected.

If the GOP rushes thru amnesty; they will collapse sooner than anyone expected. Originally Posted by Whirlaway

No, if the GOP supports amnesty or some sort of political solution to giving millions and millions of Hispanics a path to citizenship, it will piss off old fat white guys like you who already have left the GOP and it will make Hispanics start looking twice at GOP candidates.

It is a good thing for Democrats that you and the rest of the mouthbreathers are too stupid to recognize this obvious fact.

Adapt, evolve, bipartisan - They are all words for caving to the liberal way of thinking and they are what got McCain and Romney beat. We don't need democrats in both parties. A true conservative would have beaten Obama either time. Originally Posted by filbone

I don't know about that. The demographics are moving away from the GOP. Much different when Reagan easily won twice. The Rep's simply can't win NY and California which assures a tight election even if they should win. Should the Dems ever nominate someone who can win Texas it's all over.

I believe the GOP will evolve, and with any luck they might even walk upright in 2 or 3 thousand years

No, if the GOP supports amnesty or some sort of political solution to giving millions and millions of Hispanics a path to citizenship, it will piss off old fat white guys like you who already have left the GOP and it will make Hispanics start looking twice at GOP candidates.

It is a good thing for Democrats that you and the rest of the mouthbreathers are too stupid to recognize this obvious fact. Originally Posted by timpage

The Reps had a chance and blew it. Bush had an immigration bill and his own party screwed him. The Obama zombies aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. All the criticism of Bush, and rightfully so much of the time, can be made of Obama. Civil liberties are worse under Obama. Scandals all over the place. An Attorney General that is a disgrace. But he still has his die hard kool aid drinking followers.

Adapt, evolve, bipartisan - They are all words for caving to the liberal way of thinking and they are what got McCain and Romney beat. We don't need democrats in both parties. A true conservative would have beaten Obama either time. Originally Posted by filbone

You are delusional.

Whoever the dems put up against McCann was going to win because the country was fed up with the Bush/Chaney eight years.

Romney's problem was personality as much as anything. He came across as uncompassionate. Not saying he is, but that was his image.

A "true conservative" would have done better? Not in 2008. Maybe in 2012 if they were a fiscal conservative with a good message and delivery, and who stayed out of the bedroom. But usually when I hear someone say the reps need a "real conservative" they mean a whacked out Thumper. And that era has passed.

You are delusional.

Whoever the dems put up against McCann was going to win because the country was fed up with the Bush/Chaney eight years.

Romney's problem was personality as much as anything. He came across as uncompassionate. Not saying he is, but that was his image.

A "true conservative" would have done better? Not in 2008. Maybe in 2012 if they were a fiscal conservative with a good message and delivery, and who stayed out of the bedroom. But usually when I hear someone say the reps need a "real conservative" they mean a whacked out Thumper. And that era has passed. Originally Posted by Old-T

Old-Tyrant hates All-"Thumpers", but he loves the word... never heard him say one word against a Muslim

Old-Tyrant hates All-"Thumpers", but he loves the word... never heard him say one word against a Muslim Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

look on the bright side Metro-IIFFO ... sooner or later you wont have bloody knuckles from dragging them around everywhere... HOPE... just like Obie promised you




good times good times

Old-Tyrant hates All-"Thumpers", but he loves the word... never heard him say one word against a Muslim Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Muslims weren't the topic of the thread. Republican losses were.

Oh, that's right, you knew that but you just like sounding stupid.

PS: I don't hate all Thumpers, but I do think many of them are hypocritical and they make very bad presidential candidates.