[xrp]

Don't worry, the GOP is successfully re-creating itself as the Neo-Conservative party, which doesn't appeal to all [former] GOPers, so when the schism is complete, the GOP may appeal to a voter base about 60% (or less) of its size during the Reagan heyday.

It's always fun to watch a national political party commit suicide!

[Mr. Silverback]

It's always fun to watch a national political party commit suicide!

So, you're saying we should keep thee Nazis, so our voter base doesn't shrink? Maybe we should keep the Troofers too.

[BlackElk]

So, you imagine that 40% of Ronaldus Maximus's support came from "paleowhatevers???" Does someone have a patent or a trademark on whatever you are smoking?

So-called paleocons, however they may define and redefine themselves, were the uncredentialed turds at the garden party when RR was POTUS. When the paleoeccentrics finally figured out that Reagan wanted nothing to do with them, they invented themselves as "paleos" and made believe that they were the conservative movement,. They never were the c onsefvative movement and they never will be the conservative movement. If there are so many paleos, how come paleoPaulie does not break 10% in any actual caucus or primary much less with the general public? Answer: Because he is an antiAmerican, antiwar, fake, phony and fraud who claims fiscal conservatism while stuffing appropriations bills with prime Galveston pork, claims to be pro-life while assuring his libertoonian friends that he won't do a thing to protect the babies federally, claims to be pro-family while assuring his libertoonian friends that he won't lift a finger federally to prevent perversions of various sorts from imitating marriage and acquiring the attendant tax benefits.