This Is The End Of The Tea Party (and the GOP as we know it)

Their Party Platform was SOUNDLY REJECTED last night. Not just with the re-election of President Obama. But with the beating the Republicans and the Tea Party candidates took in the Senate, House and local races.

For the Republican Party to be viable moving forward they are going to need to drop the following issues from their platform:

1. Abortion and Restricting Birth Control - the whole fertilized cell is a person bullshit will keep their party from gaining any ground in the mainstream population.

2. Regressive Social Policies Regarding Women -- Including the health care issues above, they will continue to lose women in droves if they don't support equal opportunity in the work force and assistance for women as both professionals and heads of households.

3. Regressive Social Policies Regarding LGBT -- Keep on trying to ban gay marriage and the GOP will get nowhere with the vast majority of this country. Continue obstructing equality of LGBT in government policies? Expect this to be key in sinking that party.

4. Continuing to Alienate Minorities Through Racism and Xenophobic Laws and Policies -- The whole birther movement and Obama is a muslim bullshit has to go if they are to ever consider gaining ground. Voter ID and "show-me-your-papers' laws are going to continue to lose them minorities.

5. Immigration -- The platform of the GOP on the immigration situation in this country is completely unrealistic. Latinos came out for Obama almost 80-20. That is a referendum on the GOP platform

6. Pushing Christian Religion into Education -- America is a secular country founded on the freedom of religion. That means the government should not have religion in its laws, policies or execution. Part of the executive is Education. If they want their kids to pray, they are free to have them do so, but they should not expect to force others to pray or to have teachers lead prayer in public schools. Pushing religion over science is only going to alienate the educated members of society who don't prescribe to their particular flavor of God.

7. A Lack of Economic Fairness -- By grasping tightly onto Grover Norquist and his pledge to never raise taxes, the GOP has sunk its own issue of fighting budget deficits, increasing debt and balancing the budget. The tax policy was already unfair to the vast majority of working class. By not raising taxes on the wealthiest, they are pushing the burden to the working class every day the deficits exist and the debt increases. The wealthy have protected themselves against these future burdens with diversification and managing their wealth in other countries. Mitt Romney was the poster child of the unfairness of the economic policy in this country. And if they continue to hold the economy hostage because they don't want Obama to have a successful presidency, America will rebuke them even further.

Did they really expect to win on these issues? Do they expect to suddenly win more by going further to the right? If they do, then it is certainly the end of not only their party, but their entire ideology. And a recent phrase comes to mind as I consider that they will: "please, proceed."