re: #6 Skip Intro

You make a valid point, but the thing is, never before have I seen a party look at every single thing they did wrong during a campaign, then decide to double down on all of it.

This.

The last straw for me was not that they lost a winnable election again, but their reaction to the loss. Many “conservative” blog commenters were vocal in predicting a landslide victory and shouting down concerns as defeatist. Those same people did not even pause after the results; they doubled down on Akin’s abortion position. That’s when I walked away.

An internal civil war in the GOP is certainly a possibility, but I don’t think it’s going to be the rational ones who win it.

The GOP is a coalition of religious nuts and corporate welfare recipients. If the religious nuts keep torpedoing elections, the corporate welfarists will look for an accommodation with the Democrats.

Republicans are already talking about regaining the Senate in 2014. Maybe losing the House instead, and failing to regain the Presidency in 2016, will snap them out of their delusions. I doubt it though.

Then again, the 1964 election—if not that, then Watergate—seemed to finish the GOP. Instead they got Reagan and a generation of majority-party status. You can never tell about American politics.