I am ready for the GOP to die. It cannot be repaired, it can only be shunted aside. I predict its death begins November 3, 2012.
***Strong words. What do you do in preparation for the succession? It’s like the Whig party all over again. You should start a thread to discuss this.
“What do you do in preparation for the succession?”
It is emerging now, barely. The seed is the Tea Party, which is why its candidates are killed by the GOP nomenklatura at every turn. Right now too many conservatives still think that the GOP is a viable vehicle for their policies, despite more than twenty years of sly betrayals. That belief is starting to fade. When Bishop Willard is imposed on them the real fracturing will begin, and he will probably lose worse than any GOP candidate in living memory.
Obama will probably win in 2012. The GOP will make bleating noises about opposition, and cave as it always does (and intends) to leftwing and big government initiatives. At that point, conservatives and libertarians are going to have to look over at each other and weigh what they have in common as opposed to where they differ. Smaller government, greater liberty, and the restoration of traditional liberties will be welcomed by both conservatives and libertarians, and are opposed and eroded by both parties.
It will happen naturally, barring the imposition of naked censorship and oppression, which is also a possibility.