Decline and fall of a political empire

[struggle4progress]

Bruce McFarland: Decline and fall of a political empire
Posted: April 27, 2009 9:18 p.m.

... We are fighting two wars, the American and world economies are collapsing, the environment is on life support and we are subjected to opposition harangues about minutia.

Not crazy enough for you? Governor Rick Perry of Texas has threatened to secede from the union and 51 percent of Texas Republicans support this secession. I'm not sure where that falls on the patriotism scale - probably pretty low - but when a leader of the Party of Lincoln calls for secession, it rockets to the top of the irony scale ...

The Party of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Kissinger, Buckley, Will and Reagan has become the Party of Limbaugh, Hannity, Gingrich, O'Reilly, Cheney, Beck and Bush and its new face is small, petty and mean.

Rebuilding a winning coalition on black helicopter paranoia, catty gossip and irrational hatred will not be easy, especially when you are fighting a new majority of hope, change and rock ‘n' roll ... http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/12495/

[lamp_shade]

1. That third paragraph (The Party of..... ) says it all.

[Psychic Consortium]

2. There is only one way for them to survive as a party.

They must keep their mouths shut and start doing the right thing.

Until they learn this lesson, they will continue to self destruct.

[struggle4progress]

4. I was hoping you'd say they had to destroy the party to save it

[Psychic Consortium]

5. You said it better than PC. They are going to have to reinvent themselves.

And it looks like they are blowing themselves up first.

[WVRICK13]

3. It Is Like the Late 1960s Again

They imploded when civil rights became an issue. This is the same implosion, they hate a black President. Bigotry once again controls their little minds, except now they call it something else. The reason they are so irrational is their hatred has blinded them.