Or merging???
The Uniparty has been in an incestuous Relationship for my entire lifetime!
The Democrats and GOP Establishment should drop the pretensions and formally join together to form a new party - the Oligarchians.
Here we are not even to the mid-term and Barone is whining about the races two years beyond that? Where was Obama on the radar in 2006?
Seems like the “Smartest Man in Politics” may be a little light in the wallet if he needs prognosticating for buoyancy this far out.
Hey Michal, you utterly failed in 2012 when your smart guy research was heavily weighted on Dick Morris.
Events coming at us faster than a speeding bullet re still defining the mid-terms and those mid terms will start to define the 2016 races. I imagine it will be a surprise to most of us who will step up and turn this whole debacle on its head. Besides, as the electorate goes, who the hell is paying attention anyway?
There is two parties? Really?
Even if a strong conservative candidate gets close to defeating a moderate conservative, the shot across the bow does damage. When a Brat defeats a Cantor, the shot leaves the ship foundering.
Moderates see and know that they will be next if get sucked into the DC schmoozing crowd and ignore their constituents.
They’re aiding and abetting soetoro’s Treasons, that’s for sure.
We have one large GOVERNMENT PARTY now - its about the interests of government, growing it, supporting it - and all its beneficiaries and cronies. It could include groups as diverse as business, many leftists, some military, government employees, anyone who gets a check from the Government.
They are highly organized and in control.
the rest of us are scattered and disorganized.
What we have here is a tale of FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Currently, we have a mutually beneficial, cave-in system where “both” political parties spend 40 % more money than they take in as income. [ Note: Their word for “Cave-in” is “Bi-Partisan.”]
40 % of the Annual Federal Spending is for Welfare: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependent Children, Food Stamps, Rental Aid to Illegal Alien Invader “children” and adults from Mexico, etc, etc, etc.
365 days X 0.6 = 219 days after October 1 (Fed. Fiscal Year) for non-Welfare, Federal expenses, most of which is for salaries.
After the 219 days, (60 % of a year), or 7.3 months, ( April 9, +/-), are up the Feds either print more money or sell bonds to pay for the rest of the Fed. Fiscal year Welfare expenses.
The rest of the year: April 9 to October 1, the US Federal Government spends every second increasing the National Debt burden on us and our Grandchildren’s Descendants.
So much for what our highly paid Federal Politicians in “both” political parties are doing TO us.
Now comes what their smokescreen diversions are: Are you “Liberal or Conservative?”
To test this smokescreen, just ask yourself the following question:
“If a “Conservative Politician” is a Politician who “Conserves,” then who are the Politicians in all of our political parties who have EVER “Conserved” anything?”
My point is that the Left and Right Stream Media are distracting We, The People by this fracturing and splitting topic, while “both” political parties happily continue to convince us that we really do need 40 % more Federal Government than we can pay for.
There is no “fracturing” of any political party, as “both” of our political parties have the same basic goal: KEEP ON INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
If you doubt me, then just FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Big Government as God Party. Small Government, and God Rules Party.
“Choose you this day whom you will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
Yes, and yes.
The GOP is going to split into a pro-corporate elite party and the Tea Party.
The Dems are going to split between a left-of-center party and a hard-left party. Roughly along the lines of the divide between the Clinton and Obama machines.
Of these I suspect the vestigial GOPe will finish fourth.