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Title: The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.
Source: Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st ... 8035.html?hp=t2_r#.VVnQK_lVhHx
Published: May 17, 2015
Author: DANIEL J. MCGRAW
Post Date: 2015-05-18 07:50:21 by Jameson
Keywords: Old Angry, White, Guys
Views: 29957
Comments: 128

It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party’s biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party’s own nickname.

The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older, and as the adage goes, there are two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Right now, both are enemies of the GOP and they might want to worry more about the former than the latter.

There’s been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but there’s been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters won’t be able to turn out to vote at all. The party’s core is dying off by the day.

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#2. To: Jameson (#0)

The GOP represents crony capitalists. That's its core. Those are the people who always get everything that want out of the GOP.

To get the votes and the seats to advance that agenda, the GOP has in contemporary times made allies with militarists and pro-life Christians, gun nuts and other so-called "conservative" causes.

The problem, though, is that crony capitalists in general are liberal rich people, so they WANT abortion rights, and gun control, and open borders, and they want government contracts but not full-on wars to victory that require tax hikes.

And, because the Republicans always do the bidding of the crony capitalists, who are really liberal on social issues, the result has been that the systematic betrayal of the Christian pro-lifers, the Borderbots, the gun nuts and the soldiery. Republicans only fight to the death for one thing: low taxes on the rich (and contracts for cronies). Everything else is negotiable.

Net result? The crony capitalists are intensely loyal to the GOP base, but others have left, stayed home, given up.

And it isn't as though Mexicans, or young people, or really, anybody, is flocking into the GOP.

It's time for a new party. Crony capitalism has a death grip on the Republican Party that cannot be, and will never be, pried loose.

People have two choices: form a new party, or satisfy themselves with Democrat rule.

I'm not satisfied with Democrat rule. I want to see a third party. But Republican rule is godawful and old people are stubborn. So we're going to get Hillary.

Oh well.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-05-18   8:13:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Vicomte13 (#2)

crony capitalists

This is code for... I'm damn near a socialist.

I gotta say, I'm disgusted by how many closet liberals post here.

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-18   14:38:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: GrandIsland, Vicomte13, TooConservative (#46)

crony capitalists This is code for... I'm damn near a socialist.

I gotta say, I'm disgusted by how many closet liberals post here.

Aren't you a cop? Living off a socialist paycheck?

Pericles  posted on  2015-05-18   16:44:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Pericles (#52)

Aren't you a cop? Living off a socialist paycheck?

You won't find one non socialist country were the police and military aren't funded by some kind of tax.

Is that your best argument to defend hating capitalism?

You are a joke.

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-18   16:53:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: GrandIsland (#53)

You won't find one non socialist country were the police and military aren't funded by some kind of tax.

Is that your best argument to defend hating capitalism?

I point out your hypocrisy. You live off the socialism you hate. And by the way, that is not socialism where we have publically funded projects. But for stupid Americans it is close enough. Even during WW2 the economy was not socialist because ownership remained in private hands.

Pericles  posted on  2015-05-18   18:32:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: Pericles (#68)

Funding military, LE and highway by taxes isn't socialistic at all... and just because I support that doesn't mean your love for socialism doesn't ring true.

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-18   18:53:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: GrandIsland (#69)

Funding military, LE and highway by taxes isn't socialistic at all... and just because I support that doesn't mean your love for socialism doesn't ring true.

You sound like a filthy commie

Pericles  posted on  2015-05-19   0:41:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: Gatlin, Deckard, Pericles, GrandIsland (#72)

You sound like a filthy commie

Like the commie Founders?

To the Founders, law enforcement was a state matter but provision is made in the Constitution for provision of a common defense and authority for interstate bridge/road construction. In practice, that was mostly (literally) interstate, where bridges crossed a state border along a river on a major trade/postal road.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-05-19   14:51:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#78. To: TooConservative, Gatlin, Deckard, GrandIsland (#76)

You all know full well that for the Republican base - anything the govt does with tax dollars is communist and socialist.

Pericles  posted on  2015-05-19   16:33:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#79. To: Pericles (#78)

You all know full well that for the Republican base - anything the govt does with tax dollars is communist and socialist.

Unless authorized explicitly by the Constitution. Then we have to tone down the Red-baiting catcalls.

It's kind of annoying.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-05-19 16:42:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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