Is the GOP Already Dead?

American Thinker ^ | 02/12/14 | Joseph M. Koenig

[pgkdan]

It seems congressional Republicans may have, once again, been talked off the ledge, and convinced to crawl back in the window on immigration reform. For now, at least, they are off suicide watch. But it seems every year or two the American people need to intervene, grab them by the ear, and drag them kicking and screaming away from the window again. It may be, however, that they're not suicidal after all. Rather, consciously or not, the GOP leadership may have come to realize they're already dead.

The most popular explanation for Republicans' recent support for amnesty has been pressure from big donors in the business community, including the Chamber of Commerce, who are salivating over the prospect of a flood of cheap legal labor. While this explanation is true in large part, a dreadful outlook for the party may also be to blame.

The chances of meaningful Republican control at the federal level for the foreseeable future are dismal, at least as the term "Republican" has been traditionally understood. This is not new; Republican irrelevancy has been growing for a long time. ObamaCare's epic failure to launch may offer the Republicans a boost in 2014, but over the long term the dependency created by the healthcare program will only worsen Republican prospects.

[TADSLOS]

They are dead to me.

[cincinnati65]

Yes, but the heart of conservatism is still beating.....

[bigbob]

It’s been dead to me since 2008. That’s why I’m now a RINO, because I’m still registered as “R”, but that’s about it.

Think about what “In Name Only” means.

[ex-snook]

1. The Road Not Taken 
   
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,  
And sorry I could not travel both  
And be one traveler, long I stood  
And looked down one as far as I could  
To where it bent in the undergrowth;         5 
  
Then took the other, as just as fair,  
And having perhaps the better claim,  
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;  
Though as for that the passing there  
Had worn them really about the same,         10 
  
And both that morning equally lay  
In leaves no step had trodden black.  
Oh, I kept the first for another day!  
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,  
I doubted if I should ever come back.         15 
  
I shall be telling this with a sigh  
Somewhere ages and ages hence:  
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—  
I took the one less traveled by,  
And that has made all the difference.         20 
         5 
 
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Both parties were on the same road. The other road is a Third Party.

[KC_Lion]

Because chicks dig whigs

and the Uniparty /sarc

[C210N]

I see two party government... Each side very much opposed to each other

‘Rats/GOP-e versus GOP-TP.

May the latter win its war against the former.

[GeronL]

lol

[SMARTY]

What’s a GOP?

[GeronL]

bump

[NormsRevenge]

fork, meet potatoe

GoP,, meet oblivion.

[Tennessee Nana]

Well the eGOP is a cat of sorts..

it seems to have 9 or so lives..

[Tennessee Nana]

Grand Old Party

[JayAr36]

Grand Old Party, hell no, Gutless Other Party.

[TexasRepublic]

Is the GOP dead? Yes! Any movement you see is simply a twitching corpse.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Is the GOP dead? Yes, and it just doesn’t have the sense to lay down.

[OneWingedShark]

What’s a GOP?

Group of Other Progressives.

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT. [Direct Link]
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[GeronL]

that is a good one. very true.

[SMARTY]

Ain’t it the truth!

[SMARTY]

I was being funny... you know.

GOP=Gutless Old Preppies

[turducken]

The GOP is dead, long live the Tea Party