Moderate Republicans need to switch parties. Get away from the party of political gain and obstructionist. The DNC needs fiscal conservative and the RNC runs unopposed in a lot of areas. The DNC lets you have a opinion and don’t obstruct your work. Become a blue dog and stop the obstructionism.

Maybe this is what the Ancient Mayan’s prediction really meant??? The Republican Party will have run its course and died a natural death, been buried by the end of December, 2012. If so, this is a time to rejoice. These social scourges are finally out of the way. Now, real progress can be made. How stupid does Rick Santorum think we are??? These people, the few who remain, should be committed, for their own good and for the good of society. This kind of anti-social, illogical dogma is illustrative of the kind of think-tank activity cultivated during the 8 years of the Bush Presidency. Two 11+ year Wars, mind-less tax cuts, the collapse of the financial system, 5 years of Depression, and countless trillions of dollars of loss later… They still don’t have a clue. God has given us Americans One More Chance to do the right thing… in the defeat of the Republicans this last election. If we allow the likes of Santorum and his fellow Republican sociopaths to direct our actions, we deserve the consequences.

Well you know how Saxby Chambliss won his seat, doncha? He ran a smear campaign against Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, so seeing a frail Bob Dole wouldn’t have done anything for his sense of compassion – he abandoned it when he sold his soul to the devil…

Here are the reasons that the GOP will wander in the wilderness for years to come. They suffer from a home grown disease affecting the major groups that make them up the membership.
-First off is the fear of primaries syndrom(FPS) which affects most GOP moderates. Having been afflicted by this moderates are suddenly gripped by fear every time a vote on something sane or good for the country comes up. Symptoms can cause rambling nonsensical speeches, or senseless post vote interviews.This group also suffers from paraniod dellusions.
-The tealiban is a group that suffers from the syndrom called simpleism. Being afflicted by this disease , people can’t understand complex issues unless they are distilled down into jingles, or 1 sentence thoughts that they can parrot easily. Group think is a subset of this affliction. This affliction gets worse with Koch support.They can’t understand basic science, and no matter what evidence about climate change they see , they can’t comprehend it unless it’s given to them in jingle form.
-Pretend Christians are a group afflicted by turn back the clock syndrom. Symptoms include seeing the past as the future, worshiping the wealthy and shunning the down trodden, and having tunnel vision outside of their book. Those really afflicted act out their dellusions like the world being only 6000 yrs old, through the tealiban. They promote creationism over science, and don’t worry about climate change because it’s Gods will.
-The wealthy suffer from the age old syndrom, obcession with greed. This affliction causes them to see nothing else except the accumulation of wealth, no suffering, no enviornmental damage or worldwide war and death. Common symptoms include union busting, and funding the tealiban as puppets to remove obsticles like regulations to increase their own wealth. Note: this group can be dangerous so approach with caution.
-Talking heads are a group that suffers from dellusions and have difficuly seperating facts from fantasy. Symptoms include abject lying, shading the truth, and making up fantastic stories. They help keep all the other groups in line with single ideas and play well into the simpleism of the tealiban. They are paid handsomly for their ability to spin tales when confronted with truth.

So because of these afflictions, the GOP needs an emergency intervention by sane people, who are patient enough , mentally strong, to deal with these dreaded diseases, and can speak in simplistic terms.
Any voluneers?

Lynda, Gilbert, Dominick Vila and Baron Cormac amen and God bless you all. It seems that the obvious escapes the GOP. They need to “grow up”. However, we know it is very difficult for children to accept that they can no longer have their own way (any more).

John: while I respect your opinion on this matter, the reality is ugly for the Republican Party…
The GOP faces several problems, the chief of them being their MESSAGE…you see, what you hear the GOP politicians and talking heads saying since the elections is, “we didn’t get our message out” or “we didn’t impart to the moderates the advantages of Conservatism”. The latter one is laughable and ridiculously so. I’ve written several times, including BEFORE the elections, that, although the GOP messengers are almost all complete a$$holes, their MESSAGE is even worse. When your message is, “we only represent fetuses, angry rich old white men and big corporations and everybody else should just do what we say”, that’s a terrible message. Although the GOP are too chickehsh!t to admit it, they consider anyone not a white male to be a “second-class citizen”. And, if you’re a rich white man, you’re on a level above all other white men. That certainly leaves out minorities and women. Sure, the GOP have their “Uncle Toms” (Herman Cain, Allen West) and “Aunt Thomasinas” (Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Kelly Ayotte), but they’re just window dressing…the only reason they’re allowed to speak on behalf of the GOP is because they believe the GOP’s ideological BS. I’ve also written several times that, even if the only three good GOP presidents, Abe Lincoln (LIBERAL because the GOP were Liberals until 1872, when the Conservatives corrupted the party and drove them out), Teddy Roosevelt (Progressive; driven out by the Cons, too) and Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower (Moderate), spouted this same terrible message, they’d have been unpopular, too.

And, GOP moderates blew their chance to rid themselves of the other two factions of the party, the Cons (Conservative Wrong-Wing Nut Jobs) and the Baggers (Tea Party Militia members; Teabaggers). Starting in early 2011, GOP moderates began complaining about what the GOP had become…they lamented the lack of reasonable and moderate voices, even though they suborned the rise of the Baggers in 2010. As time went on, the Cons and Baggers asserted their terrible message and allegedly turned away moderates. You’d see posts online saying, “the party has left me” and “where are the moderate voices” and, especially, “the Democrats act more like GOP moderates than the GOP do, I’m voting for Democrats”. While the urban GOP moderates kept their word, suburban and rural GOP moderates did not. What they ended up doing was voting against the Baggers but for the Cons. They needed to vote for Democrats so that the Demos could get a majority in the US House and a supermajority in the US Senate (badly needed to quash the GOP’s childish overuse of the filibuster). If they had done what they said they would, they could have handed the Cons and Baggers a humiliating electoral defeat and forced those two groups to start their own parties. Instead, we now have the start of an ugly and bloody GOP “Civil War”, and, despite what the media thinks, the Cons and Baggers are on the SAME SIDE of that war! This means that the Cons and Baggers will take over the GOP, which will eventually force the moderates from the party to become Demos or Independents. Or, perhaps those moderates will infiltrate the only viable third party, the Progressive Party, which has the best chance of becoming the second “major” party.

The Republican Party cannot be saved from the Cons and Baggers; it’s that simple. As Steve Schmidt (the man who unleashed the beast known as Sarah Palin upon us…thanks, Steve!-smh) said, “when people think of the Republican Party, they think they’re the party of wackos and loons”. Moderates can only blame themselves for that. Even worse is the fact that 2010 was a Census year. You see, what happens after the elections in a Census year is that the majority party in the US House and in the states are able to redraw US House and state House/Senate districts to favor themselves. This is the “gerrymandering” to which the media refer when they say that the GOP “gerrymandered” US House districts to keep the House majority. But, that shouldn’t have mattered; if the moderates had done what they promised they’d do, the GOP would not have the House majority. Even worse is the fact that the next Census year elections are in 2020, so, we have to live with these gerrymandered districts until 2021, when, again, whomever is the majority party in the US House and state Houses/Senates redraw the districts. Elections do have consequences, and the consequences of the 2010 midterms are going to be felt for the next nine years ssmdh

Why is it, that the the Republican Senators never ask themselves what their voters want? Now I’m a registered Democrat, still I can’t believe that only the democratic voters wanted this UN Resolution passed. Why is that men the likes of Santorum and Beck can have such influence? What is a shame that I can image that those nay Sayers are probably just to scared to vote their conscience.

When I saw the tease for this article entitled “Profile In Cowardice”, I assumed that it was another article about Obama. You fooled me!

This is a free country (so far anyway), and it is difficult to get these sociopaths out of office, but we must be vigilant in trying. If anyone mounts a campaign to get rid of the Republican loonies…they will be regarded as true patriots. Future generations are depending on us to correct this unbelievable behavior instigated by Grover Norquist’s document that all Republicans signed. Take it to the highest court if need be!

The 2016 race is for Hillary to lose. Her qualifications, experience, and stature are so powerful I can’t imagine anyone defeating her if she decides to run. She is not the only one, however, with a good chance at the nomination. I think Elizabeth Warren has a good shot at it, and so do Andrew Cuomo and Deval Patrick. There are impressive Democrats, like Wasserman Schultz, but they don’t have enough recognition and are still relatively inexperienced for the big job.

how about HILLARY as President and Elizabeth as Vice President.sounds like a winner plus it would run the republicans crazy like having a black President did.