Why are all the talking heads (and DU also) trying to fix the republican party?

[MrYikes]

It is their job to do that, not ours. In fact I would rather they not fix themselves, I kinda like it this way, but I always have had a mean streak.

[Puzzledtraveller]

1. They have been even less popular at times historically yet here they are, so I agree

let them fend for themselves.

[KansDem]

2. I'd like to fix the Republican Party...

...like I would "fix" a pet.

And I don't mean "repair."

[MineralMan]

3. It's OK. All attempts to change the GOP will lead

to its further disintegration. That's a good thing.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I agree.

To the extent that hey have had power in the past--and that is a very great extent--it was by means of an unholy coalition of felonious financiers, flat-earthers and fraudsters. Any attempt to "remodel" will inevitably lead to a breaking apart of the elements. Consider, for example, the problem of trying to simultaneously appeal to underprivileged minorities and rabidly racist Tea Partiers. Or to modern women and the anti-choice crowd. Or to academics and scientists on the one hand, and Creationists and GW-denying energy corporations on the other.

There's no way.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I, for one, believe in a two-party system.

Like maybe Democrats & Greens.

Let the Republicans go fuck themselves.

[Shankapotomus]

5. Don't jinx it! nt