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1 Iwouldprefernotto  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 6:19:50pm

They are going to continue to the right, because that's all they know how to do.

2 aagcobb  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 6:50:11pm

That article was grim. The GOP is finished as far as presidential elections go until they figure out how to expand their appeal beyond their current base. Tomorrow Romney will fall short of the 61% white support he needed to win the presidency; that won't even be conceivably a path to victory in 2016. Current GOP officeholders have gerrymandered districts for themselves in which the only threat to their incumbency for the next decade is to be primaried from the right, so they have no incentive to try to expand the GOP base. To retake the White House, the GOP will need a candidate with the charisma and guts (two things utterly lacking in Romney) to make the GOP a big tent again. If they can't find that candidate, Obama's new New Deal coalition might dominate US politics for decades, the way FDR's coalition did.

3 Skip Intro  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 6:58:42pm
To retake the White House, the GOP will need a candidate with the charisma and guts (two things utterly lacking in Romney) to make the GOP a big tent again.

They may find that candidate, but there's still the huge problem with the base during the primaries. If Rush Limbaugh is still on the air, what do you think his opinion of a GOP "big tent" will be?

It will take a complete purge the far right/evangelical base for the GOP to have a prayer of becoming a big tent party, and I don't see that happening in four years. If anything, I think they'll move even further to the right.

4 Jaerik  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 7:05:44pm

My whole life, I've been told that anyone who runs a small (or large) business, anyone who works hard, anyone who employs people, anyone who invents things and puts their name on it, etc. must be Republican. That Democrats just don't "get it."

For all of my childhood, most of my Ayn Rand-reading college years, and even the first few years of my career, I believed it.

But right around 24 or 25, I started really looking around at the people I respected and wanted to be like. People who founded companies. Invented things. Made it rich. Created jobs. Changed the world. And I realized: every single one of them was a Democrat.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Irwin Jacobs... I could go on. I had to really stretch to find any major titans of my industry that are Republican. Meg Whitman, maybe?

And while that certainly wasn't the thing that convinced me to switch sides, nor does it mean the opposite is true by any means, it pretty much shattered my long-held belief that world-changing business success is somehow necessarily correlated in either direction with political conservatism.

5 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 7:18:02pm

Since I'm currently playing BioShock 2 all I can say to that loon that wrote the first letter is "Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Mr. Galt.

Also thinking of this.

6 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 8:14:21pm

re: #5 Romantic Heretic

Since I'm currently playing BioShock 2 all I can say to that loon that wrote the first letter is "Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Mr. Galt.

Also thinking of this.

People were talking here about folks 'going Galt' last election as well. Didn't really happen. Doctors did not quit en masse, people didn't close down key businesses and fire all their employees, unless they had to because the economy was so sucky. No one does this.

7 Amory Blaine  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 8:21:59pm

re: #5 Romantic Heretic

Since I'm currently playing BioShock 2 all I can say to that loon that wrote the first letter is "Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Mr. Galt.

Also thinking of this.

Hear Hear! All I have to say is GTFO.

8 Jaerik  Mon, Nov 5, 2012 10:26:33pm

The dude threatening to fire all his employees and "give up" fails to explain what he would choose to do instead. I give him all of a month on welfare and food stamps before he gets his ass up and gets back to work. Life on the government dole isn't exactly Club Med.

9 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Nov 6, 2012 3:33:37am

re: #4 Jaerik

Meg Whitman is not really in the same class as Gates, Jobs, Ellison, et al., because her shtick is not computers and IT, but running companies, some of which might be associated with IT (eBay, for example). She also has
yet to found a company. She's just been hired to run them (or run them into the ground, as the case may be).


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