the GOP gained power over the last two generations by politicizing hatred towards black people. willie horton, welfare queen, affrimative action, the list is endless.not to meantion targeting black voters in ohio and florida. however, this last election, that crap got played out and old. but now,they can start all over again. they always have access to money because they have shown they will prostitute their message to corporate interests. ethnic groups like the jews, italians and irish became fully "white" over the last century. all the gop needs to do, is complete taking the hispanics, asians and even biracial into a white identity, hit the refresh button on the antiblack sentiment, especially the black "underclass", pour and mix in their usual doses of fear,contempt and rage towards the black/underclass, this time with an asian or hispanic face, boom back in power. simple.

micheal steele is nothing, so dont even mention him.

Wow, where does one begin with something that completely bigoted? Quite frankly, Soliel, you, your parents, your siblings, your off-spring, etc have all relied upon the government from the schools you attended to the roads you drive upon. You nor your family have acquired anything "on your own." You have needed and benefited from a wealthy, stable society that has enabled you to "develop yourself."

Giant Bastard,

I hate to contradict you after you've been so polite and reasoned and all, but the Bush Administration never "acknowledged that it broke the law on FISA." What it acknowledged was that there were ambiguities and anachronisms in the statute, which was written way before modern telecommunications technology was deployed, and said these needed to be updated and clarified so that it and future administrations could know exactly what was legal and what wasn't.

THIS "is a matter of public record, not opinion."

Son...

You are also really hung up on sex as some kind of all-purpose ad hominem rebuttal. Just how does a politician “screwing around on his wife” delegitimize his opposition to abortion, say, or invalidate his insistence that children are best raised in stable two-parent families? Were Jefferson’s words about all men being created equal any less true or less legitimate because he was a slaveholder?

You know, for a group that often accused Obama of being an "empty suit", you folks really seem to not worry so much about actions, as long as the right WORDS are being said.

See, this is where you go off-course, my friend. My problem is not with the message of family values, or hard work, or fiscal responsibility or rule of law. My problem is the right-wing's insistence that THEY are the ONLY ones who actually stand for those particular values (as opposed to those godless, valueless lefties), all while we see example after example of them living contrary to those values.

Republicans are all too eager to go on and on about the sanctity of marriage, as an excuse to deny gays the right to marry, and yet, they are treating their OWN marriages with contempt.

Republicans are all too eager to deny Americans a proper social safety net, under the guise of encouraging fiscal responsibility, and yet, they spend money like drunken sailors and rack up record debts.

Republicans are all too eager to loudly proclaim how much they support the troops, and yet, they ignore those troops who come home physically or mentally broken.

There is nothing all that wrong with the Republican message, but nobody's going to listen to your messengers anymore, because they have proven themselves to be raging hypocrites.

You lost me the second you blamed the MSM for anything. Not only is the Republican Party too racist (I left that party in 2006 for this very reason), it is also myopic and prone to believe conspiracy theories of the most asinine sort. Your article fell on the chopping block the second you posted that line.

"Too old, too white..."

Mr Greener, John McCain's first executive decision? Appoint a quacking, barking, delusional wacko he'd barely met and run a campaign built on lies and hate --or should I replay the bag lady "Obama's an Arab" clip for you another fifty times? Or perhaps the fifty shoutouts to some clueless loser like "Joe the Plumber," the new "everyman" of the Republican Party that any dumbass could identify with. Or McCain wandering around the set of the televised debate like some gomer on the loose from his nursing home? The electorate looked into the eyes of the GOP and saw the glitter of madness. Or an array of Mormons and Baptists, creationists and racists, supported by an army of professional spinmeisters, liars and assorted creeps. Republicans can moan about not being the politically correct race, when the fact is your party makes rational peoples' skin crawl regardless of color.

Ummm, referring to Utah and I think Idaho as emblematic of a source of the Republithug inflexibility and rigid ideology is pretty chicken shit if you ask me.

Yes those two states are very right wing, extremely so, but alone they are hardly the foundation of the problem facing the Republithugs.

It's their Deep South bedrock support that is the cause of their problems.

That part of the country is the home of hardcore reactionary thinking that holds up as indisputable that white men are chosen to lead (NOT white women though) blood hatred of government, big business is saintly, profit is the best motivator for honesty Etc.

That constituency WILL NOT COMPROMISE.

Which means the fundamental changes the Republican party would have to make to become a majority party will remain impossible unless the Republican party decides to eviscerate itself and completely abandon the Deep South.

There is NOTHING the Republithug party can do to disguise the ugly fact that the Republican party is basically the Texas/Deep South party.

The other regions of the country rightfully look down on that region for its low educational achievement, highest poverty levels, high crime rates and teen pregnancy rates Etc.

The rest of the country knows they are that way, because of holding to those same stupid idiologically driven agendas the Republican party tried to foist on the rest of the country and succeeded for 15yrs.

Unlike the deep South/Texas though, the rest of the nation woke up in time to realize the absolute idiocy of said policies and kicked them out of office, and back to their backwater home bases where they will never find the strength to become a majority party again.

That's good for the nation as a whole, and that's what counts.