And they kept saying that it is because it is good for the environment, schools, and employment.

Ron Nehring took over the CA GOP after 2000, being close to Grover Norquist, he wanted to politicize every elected office in the state. He proceeded to bar independents from voting in the presidential primary, since the Southern District has a large number of indies, who usually swing Republican, he wanted to block the McCain bid. After the recall election CA Repubs had things going their way, (ENRON did the dirty work) Republicans were going to push the agenda, and AG's like Carol Lam were fired for not running fast enough.

San Diego was and is ground zero for the Republican party, the place Bush played the guitar while NOLA was being destroyed by hurricane Katrina. The Navy is doubling their number of ships homeported here, something bound to swing the demographic tide. Whose idea was that I wonder, the same people who gave us the Berlin Wall across the southern United States?

If you really put "Country First" you will support the party that promotes the right policies rather than trying to figure out some way for the wrong-headed (racist) party to win elections.

The GOP's problems are not JUST ones of ethnicity, although their tone-deaf actions in regard to the same certainly aren't helping.

The Republican Party is in a state disolution because you succumbed to your own cynical politics. The other long term problem is that your anti-government party set out to effectively ruin the functions of government that were of any benifit to the majority of the electorate. You created a population of 2.5 million prisoners in the name of "getting the government off our backs".

Among other things you people will have to trick the electorate out of remembering is that your "war on terror" ended up soaking the tax payers for 2 trillion dollars in principal at an interest rate of nearly 150 billion a year for a war waged under entirely false pretenses. All the while you claimed that as a nation we simply could not afford to adequately fund public schools or libratries preserve parks, our enviornment or even consider housing reform or a national health care plan. You simply must discover a method for erasing peoples memories of what your party stands for in terms of our collective historical experience.

To undertake this fools errand will require your epic capacity for lying, a strong stomach and a weak mind. Evidently these assets as yet have not deserted you as it is equaly clear that the electorate has long since rejected the "principles" of your "compassionate conservative".

I applaud all GOP losses, and delight in their predicament, but one must note that if more conservatives were capable of looking at facts as objectively and sensibly as this author , the GOP would not be in its current wretched state.

really?

For starters, you have the major media outlets. Is it any wonder that coverage of the election took on the tone of Obama's election being a virtual certainty? In these locations, Obama was running so strong, it was hard for those observing to see how he could lose. John McCain's strength came from locations that generally were not the subject of much attention by the national media.

This is another problem you have, the complaining about a "liberal" media after you've had them in your pocket at least 15 years. No one's buying it anymore, time for a change in fictional furies.

I got as far as reading about the mainstream media's "love" of Barack Obama before I realized this was written by someone still deeply deluding himself.

So I imagined the part about non-stop "coverage" of the issue of Reverend Wright? (Including Salon, one of the worst at this particular issue back in Joan's PUMA era) Or how every crackpot theory about Bill Ayers was given 24/7 attention at times?

The part about how "the media" acted as if it were a certainty that Obama would win was also hilarious. I seem to remember months of the media blaring "Is this good news for McCain??" every time some tiny wiggle in the polls happened, to the point where they entire blogosphere made "Great news for McCain!" into a running satire of the absurdly McCain-skewed coverage. McCain's blinding love from reporters was famous before and during this election, causing much commentary if you'd been paying attention.

In this article you continue the fallacy of so many others, imagining that "minority support" is just some public relations trick you can pull off somehow, and then with the same old, racist, white, male group, take your new Lee Atwater and ride him to victory again.

It doesn't work that way. There comes a time when you have to actually think of what the voters want, not how to fool them into voting for you. The Republicans have skated by pulling PR and Hollywood-style tricks on voters for decades, in the unholy alliance with "values" voters in which you got religious fanatics to believe that you were on their side, for instance. This goes far beyond just issues of race, racial minorities were one part of the population that you bamboozled, but there were many.

The simple fact is that elected representatives are meant to represent, not to calculate how to win over voters that they don't really care about. It's not a PR puzzle, it's the actual working of the system the way it's supposed to. These racist white men held power far longer than the demographics warranted, by using PR tricks. It couldn't last however.

There's really no gaurantee that the Republican Party will be a viable party at all in the future. History shows that we've always had two parties, but it also shows that one of them wasn't always Republican. Anything can happen, and based on the "war on empathy" and open racism displayed, amazingly, by Republicans in the Sotomayor hearings, it probably will.

suck it conservative a-holes!

I can't believe you didn't end this article with the patronising signoff "I hope this helps"!

Just kidding. Where is that numbnut, anyway?