In fact women make up more than half the population yet you completely overlooked the fact that Republicans have been alienating the female vote, too. Seems like that ought to be the first thing they examine.

If the conservatives had their way, blacks would still be enslaved and women would be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Neither group would have the power to vote today.

The conservative agenda only includes self-interest, power and greed hidden behind the thin veneer of morality and religion. The interdependence between individuals and society as a whole lies far beyond their limited perspective and capacity. Fear and ignorance are the basic motivating factors beneath it all.

Most likely the conservative party will not disappear but be forced to change, however slightly, to accommodate the greatest number of like-minded individuals. The debates will go on, and in 50 years we'll look back and wonder why it took so long for them to accept the obvious.

And we'll be all the better for it.

You can't polish a turd.

your GOP - NOT cool!

I see that Mr. Greener runs what appears to be a public relations/marketing firm that mostly caters to big corporations and the Republican Party. If he takes any of these comments to heart, his business is in trouble, at least that part of it that helps spin the GOP hogwash to the public.

Mr. Greener, I am sorry. The product you sell is deficient, not only sub-par but actively dangerous. You can only sell it to those who have already bought it and are unthinkingly loyal. If you want to sell it to others, the product will have to change radically. But beware. If it becomes relevant, intelligent, vibrant and productive in the real modern world, it will no longer appeal to a goodly percentage of the current customer base. Perhaps you could get the client to accept that they can achieve only small market success, periodically, in communities that are disposed towards them. Perhaps you could get them to be satisfied with that.

If you were hoping for ideas to help you sell the GOP, I wonder what you have found. You are selling a mimeograph machine in the era of personal computers and internet. You are selling buggy whips. You are selling a product of no real value, no value except to those who live in the nostalgic imagined past. Except that the product is actively hazardous. The general consumer image of your product is that it is slimy and corrupt and dangerous to the health and welfare of the country. You are selling asbestos, a sort that is marketed as retarding flames but does the opposite.

Perhaps you might consider getting new clients. Do work that might help your country, not wreck it. But perhaps you are making too much money from the GOP. I understand it would be hard to replace that income stream, particularly in the current depression brought on by your clients.

The GOP is too old, too white, etc...Liberals have been pushing this garbage for a long time now, trying to distract people from the REAL differences between the 2 parties, which are becoming much more obvious than Liberals like. The truth is the DNC is far to Socialistic, far too eager to expant the already-too-large government, is violating the Constitution, nationalizing banks and businesses, lying about stimuls funds - which is really a reason to pass bills they have been waiting years for but could not pass - in the name of global warming which the EPA report they hid said was bogus. The Omnibus bill itself contained 9,287 pieces of pork, all of which Obama promised to veto - Yeah, he lied. He used scare tactics and promises of IMMEDIATE economic help, to create/save millions of jobs, and an unemployment rate of no greater than 8&. NOW the liar is saying the stimulus was NEVER meant to be immediate help, that unemplyment will grow over 12%, and even though he said we ran out of money he still wants ANOTHER non-stimulating stimulus plan, the Cap-n-Tax (the largest tax in US history), and socialized medicine, the price of which we now he lied about also, costing closer to 2 to 2 1/2 Trillion instead of 1.4 Trillion. The differences between the 2 parties is obvious but it has nothing to do with age and color - it has to do with the Constitution, smaller government, and less government intervention and taxation! It is a matter of Socialism versus Democracy and our Constitution!

And the reason is the bigotry of those in the mold of George W: "If you are not with us, you are against us." It is the unwillingness to “compromise” in both senses of the word: an abhorrence that finding a compromise would compromise one's own conviction. That is a-political to the extreme. There are ideological differences and even contradictions between social conservatives and libertarians, social conservatives and economic conservatives, and on and on. To many - btw on the left as well - the "papering over" of those differences amounts to nothing less than treason while a calmer assessment would lead you to the conclusion that without compromises to find majorities there is no politics.

Once you accept that honest differences of opinion are possible you might accept that while you are a foe of abortion, proponents of freedom of choice are not two-horned devils. If I were a U.S. citizen, I would battle you every step with conviction and passion but I still could accept that you are of a different view.

This civility has gotten lost in U.S. politics, and while there is nobody without blame ("landslide Lyndon"), there is little doubt that Nixon’s Southern strategy accelerated the decline. I don’t remember if it was Democrat Alben Barkley or Republican John Sherman Cooper who reminisced about a time where he and his opponent of the other party would travel together, give their speeches one after the other, have their beer - or more likely, whiskey - together, and travel on. I gather it is rather difficult to throw dirt at your opponent in his face every evening and have a drink afterwards. With even intra-party oppo-research consuming millions of $$ today, it is probably a 30,000 feet high in the sky idealism to hope for redress. But while it might not have been possible to conserve such bucolic practices, isn't that a very "conservative" reading of U.S. values and attitudes?

It is nigh to impossible to rebrand a party when, while out of necessity uncapable of exposing an ideologically coherent program, scorn and resentment - including during the “respectful” treatment of Judge Sotomayor – is transpiring at every step of the way.