You might want to wait until after the election before sounding the death knell of the right. In fact, you might want to wait to see how the left makes out in actually running the country bfore making such a pronouncement.

A more proper nautical analogy is that the good ship USA is in dire straits right now, and if the new captain doesn't do a lot better than the old captain, there's going to be a major disaster and/or another mutiny. Irrespective of whether he navigates from the left or the right. I personally hope he does do better, for the sake of us all. But we're in uncharted waters right now, folks, so its no time to make believe one side or the other has all the answers. These stormy seas are just as unforgiving for liberals and conservatives alike, and we'll all drown together if we're not careful.

Hmmmm... That's just too, too delicious!

A whole bunch of big gold stars for this. I think this is one of the best assessments of the Republican Titanic I've read yet. Many kudos!

persuaded Eisenhower's father to loosen his association with this religious group. I don't think Gary Kamiya has the gift of prophecy either but as the festival of Samhain (Halloween) approaches the banshee may have something of great importance to impart. As religion is such a touchy subject in the United States, I was surprised to find that Dwight Eisenhower wasn't baptized until after he was elected President. The scarifying scrutiny of a candidate's personal life must not have been so endemic then.

How can anyone really want or expect "small government" in a country of over 300 million people?

What kind of fantasy are these people living in? And don't tell me about the views of the founding fathers on this one. In 1776 the population of the U.S. was less than 1% what it is now.

Small government--smaller than what? Smaller than the corporations from whom it has to protect the general populace? Smaller than the foreign governments it has to deal with to keep the oil coming? Small enough to be unable to respond to a hurricane and the sinking of a major U.S. city?

I would venture to guess that "conservatism" survived as long as it did because the basic well-being of the population was ensured by what had been put into place by the earlier liberalism. In other words, people have lived off the fat of the New Deal for three decades and that made them a lot less likely to notice how badly the conservatives have failed them.

Tragically, they'll make a comeback at some point. Conservatives are like Dung Fungai. That particular fungai cannot exist without dung. US conservatives have lots of fertile dung in the form of the "low information" rednecks, grotesque religious Dark-Ages fundamentalists, racists, skinheads and assortment of ignorant loonies that fertilize this vast land.

thank you for that article. don't know if there's any "real republicans" left or exactly what they are. the party was certainly hijacked and put on the road to disaster. time to put an end to the neocons and the interests they serve.

The Arthritic Hand of the Republican Party

Imagine an arthritic hand emerging from cuffs of silk, dotted with liver spots, lumped and misshapen at the thumbs and knuckles. The Hand of the Republican party is such a hand, holding on but slipping, losing its grip on the levers of power.

Yes ‘we the people’ imagine this hand and take note. Captains of the Bush nightmare are retreating and even their gold cuff links will not be enough. It does not matter the senile mind that rules this hand is screaming, shouting out last gasps of anything it can come up with to stave off the inevitable flood of new ideas which are about to glove it and cuff it to the problems of the past.

Yes, the Republicans will use what ever slander possible. But their slanders are slanders of the past. Socialism, Communism, Class Warfare. These have been shouted before, seventy, eighty, ninety years ago, and this time they will not work. They did not work with FDR either.

The Republicans could put a metaphoric Barcelona Anarchists hat on Obama’s head, and even this would fail.

Hurrah for the future and we hope a new direction for America, hurrah if the Republican party finds itself beheaded like Louis or Marie Antoinette. And just by comparison; Tricky Dick was more a Socialist than is Barack Obama... Tricky Dick was for national health care, and he instituted Wage and Price controls.

Take that Sarah Palin.. You uneducated idiot.—Go eat some moose!! And John McCain... What a sad and tragic way to end a life.

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Though I have been a liberal since forever and am prone to think the misfortunes of the right as "God's justice," I really don't think the triumphalism of this piece is qualitatively different than similar musings written at the other end of the spectrum 8 and 4 years ago.

And there is the usual mistake of relinquishing any claims on the left to "tradition, patriotism, morality, family values, community, God" to embrace the "relativist, secular, progressive, scientific." These are not mutually exclusive value-sets.

An Ombama victory is the beginning of an opportunity that will have its day and pass in time. The only wisdom we can hope to aquire," wrote Eliot, " is the wisdom of humility. Humility is endless.

I am like several other ones I will wait until Obama has won the actual election to revel! There is still to much ignorance in this country. Most intelligent people should be running like h... from John McCain due to his policies that are a exactly the same as Bush's. That will in the end destroy what's left of this country if they aren't changed. It will be a black day in this country if McCain/Palin actually win. Something close to the day when the Supreme Court gave George W Bush the election of 2000. Most of us knew we were in for a nightmare then. But, it does make me feel good to watch all the rats deserting the ship. To watch the 'hate machine' starting to implode on itself. They are starting to get as frightened as the rest of us have been for 8 years now. We couldn't get so lucky as the Republican ship actually wreck! We be done with the terrible blight on our country known as conservatism! And relegate the mess to the history books.