If kept out of power long enough, do you think the Republican party would eventually crack?

This poll concerns political strategy.

Regardless of whether you are upset with the Democratic party right now or not, do you think that the Republican party could be completely broken if we just continued to keep them from controlling our government long enough?

Would enthusiasm for the republican party shrink and die out?

I am hoping, if we stop worrying about what the dems are doing and just concentrate on totally breaking the spirit of the Right Wing, we can totally eliminate them as an opponent and then concentrate on our own party.

What about you?

Once the RW realized that they had well and truly shat the bed with the Bush debacle, they abandoned the Republican party to the crazies.

And once they ruin the Democratic brand again, the Republicans will be back.

Please point out to me where I said they did.

I remember the predictions of a permanent GOP majority. I also remember in the late 90's when they talked about the "New Economy" and the Dow hitting $100K.

However, I think 2012 has the potential to be among the most freewheeling in decades, and I'm wondering if we'e not headed for multi-partisan politics.

start functioning as a Party, it will be someone else on the other end of the rope.

Right now the GOP seems determined not to give up on the failed agenda that made the Bush years a disaster. After all, Karl Rove promised them a permanent Republican majority, and they were so smug in their Newt dominated heyday bringing down Clinton. That party is over, but like kids they insist that it not be so.

Regardless of the possibility the GOP will win some seats in November (I doubt it will be many, and they'll lose some), the Republican Party remains fractured and directionless (unless you count 'back to the past' as a direction). This does not bode well for their future.

When the only Republican tactics are increasingly hysterical statements about Obama and open racism/homophobia/xenophobia, and their stars are dysfunctional fantasies figures like Sarah Palin, the Republicans show they are unable to function in the real world.

They have had a 30 year grip on the country, they were desperate and latched on to Sarah Palin and others of her ilk. Then they hooked up with the Teabaggers.....and more violent right wing hate groups.....they are destroying themselves.

Who do they have to offer in 2012? No one....

Good point!

Remember right after Obama's election. The republicans were completely demoralized. Into this vacuum came the uber conservative faction of the republican party. The Brown Shirts bullied their way into their leadership and promised they could and would break Obama and the Democrats. They used their Armey of dirty tricks brigades to gin up lies and most importantly they invented the tea baggers.

So just imagine what happens if and when these old Cheney/Rove zealots fail to deliver? Where does the party of NO go then? If America realizes that Boner, McConnell, and Cantor are full of shit where does the republican tea party go then? To the middle? To the extreme, extreme, extreme right wing of the party? To the ash heap of history?

then "no one" on the Repuke side will have a chance to be the next President.

I've seen the Rethugs down on the mat for so many times, then rise back up again. They're harder to kill than Jason from the horror movies.

You sound like you've seen more than me as a democrat so I'll take your word for it on that one. :)

Regardless of the possibility the GOP will win some seats in November (I doubt it will be many, and they'll lose some), the Republican Party remains fractured and directionless (unless you count 'back to the past' as a direction). This does not bode well for their future.

When the only Republican tactics are increasingly hysterical statements about Obama and open racism/homophobia/xenophobia, and their stars are dysfunctional fantasies figures like Sarah Palin, the Republicans show they are unable to function in the real world.

what happens to the Republican Party. If the RP fails, a new conservative party will rise. Or they will simply move in to the Democratic Party, since it has moved steadily their direction, and a new party will rise to represent the left.

Please define crack.

A mass exodus of supporters. Some who are tired of backing a loser and others whom the losing has brought on a political epiphany.

more powerful than they are now.

Cockroaches..







And Republicans..