Reply #19: I don't know what will become of the Republican party [View All]

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I assume it will live on, after a fashion.

The original Republican values were laudable, but somewhere along the line - I think starting with Reagan - it started taking a hard turn to the right, and I really think it was the incursion of the religious fundies that did it, and for some reason the GOP pandered to them. They're easy, they're easy to appeal to, they're easy to rile up, so it was sort of a match made in heaven, except that matches blow out, given enough hot air (if you will allow me to mangle my analogies).

Whereas the party might have managed for decades upon decades more, Bush & co. seem to have nearly single-handedly driven it into the ground.

Nature abhors a vaccuum, so something will rise in its place. What that something is, I couldn't say. Expect it to be a new GOP, maybe a little shiftier, if that's a possibility, and smarter in a scary sort of way.