I don't know about anyone here, but despite the hype, I think the GOP will lose their ass in Nov. The party has given no one a reason to vote for them. Actually, they have given more reasons to skip voting at all after all the disgraceful Primaries they ran.
A quote from a article posted:Twenty Years Ago: Republicans Learned How to Win
Zitat The problem is Karl Rove and other strategists who rule the GOP message machine are -- how can I put this delicately – idiotic? As are the establishment candidates. They are such shallow thinkers and prisoners of stale and failed formulas. Original thought is simply nonexistent. And yet so convinced are they of their sorcery with their use of focus groups and polls to manipulate a few votes here and a few votes there -- that the potential tidal wave available to them continues to escape notice.
Quote: Eglman wrote in post #2The GOP of today is mostly a Liberal Party with a couple of token conservatives to point to now and then and the DNC is flat-out Commie-socialist
When I look at the two US parties anymore I see the UK parties. Labour is Socialist and the Tories are doing everything they can to be them but not raise taxes. A total mess. Here we have the Rats as far left as I have ever seen them and the GOP leadership agreeing with them on everything except on raising taxes. It inspires no one.
Zitat “The chief problem of American Political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. . . . Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."
Carroll Quigley Professor of history at Georgetown University Clinton’s mentor Tragedy and Hope 1966