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Originally Posted by Redrob
Repubican politicians and Rush..... |
LOL
Anyway, the Republican party is in a major transitional period. Some of its leading thinkers/proponents like William F Buckley and Fr. Neuhaus passed away last year some months before the election. Its core constituencies like social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, "classical liberals", etc feel unanchored. Limbaugh, albeit with a reach of 20+ million listeners, is just one voice among many. Ultimately, it will be the Democrats' handling of the economic meltdown that will shape which, if any, of the Republicans' differing subgroups will gain prominence in that Party's revival.
Many pundits said the Republicans were toast after LBJ trounced Goldwater. Many pundits repeated the same diagnosis after the whole Nixon fiasco. Republicans bounced back in 1980 with Reagan... and espousing many of the same beliefs as Goldwater.
Politics acts like a pendulum... it can swing only so far in one direction before a countervailing force gathers momentum.
That said, what Barack Obama is proposing (universal health care, mandatory college, etc) aim to be a GAME CHANGER that would resist countervailing forces should the pendulum swing back.
