Thursday, June 24, 2010
The GOP: the party of stupid white people.
For the GOP, says Teixeira, things look grim, in large part because the country is becoming less white and more educated.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"A million and a half people are living in Gaza, but only one of them is really in need of humanitarian aid," Barak said.
"I will never apologize for the United States of America, I don't care what the facts are." Bush said
For the GOP things look grim, in large part because the country is becoming less white and more educated.
The nature of the GOP's demographic-electoral problem is three-fold. First, the challenge of trying to evolve and adapt is itself limited by demographics because the GOP's older and whiter residual white minority coalition is simply less amenable to the sort of changes it would take to modernize the party. Second, so many of the figures within the party who might be able to lead a center-right revival have been beaten in recent cycles, with the old Ford/Dole/Rockefeller wing decimated by the 2006 and 2008 cycles. (Relatedly, it doesn't help when people like Frum are cast out from their intellectual circles.) Finally, it is simply not in the nature of conservatism to foment change or be out in front of demographic and social changes: Conservatism works best as a reaction to--not necessarily reactionary, but a reaction nonetheless--to oncoming, rapid changes.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The "give BP a break" theme from the Republican Party
is almost as good as the "attack Obama, not BP" message from Republicans
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