Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free....
I'm still not convinced that Obama will win seven days from now (regardless of the polls) but he may very well be the next President. If that happens, the Republican Party, as we once new it, will be dead.
And if doesn't happen this year, it will happen after four more.
It's all a matter of demographics.
And before I get tourched for saying this, this belief was actually the product of a conversation I had with a couple of right-wingers six months ago. It was their idea, not mine. The reason? Minorities typically vote Democratic - that's not news. But it doesn't take many of them to push the Democrats over the 50% margin. And once that happens, there will be no turning back.
Take a look at the census. That day is coming. And it may be one week away.
I'm convinced that Ronald Reagan could not get elected today. That landslide of 1980 and 1984 came from an American public, and this is the most important part -- that no longer exists. Yeah, it's a simplistic way of proving of it, but just think about The Brady Bunch, The Andy Griffith Show, or The Dick Van Dyke Show. It's almost like you're watching the History Channel when you looked at the way their lives were portrayed.
Yeah, the Republican Party can get back into power at the national level by becoming more moderate - something McCain apparently realizes even now - but the true conservative will not be welcome.
Rush Limbaugh went on a rant the other day that, win or lose, it is time to take back the Republican Party. His heart may be in the right place, but the numbers are against him. There's just not enough of those folks left to be a factor. Yeah, they are all over the place in the meager region of south Alabama, but not nationally.
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. But I am saying that America changed right before our eyes. And far more quickly than any of us realized.
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This post makes me think of something else. You know when you give 3 puppies all their own bowl of food, but they each think the other is getting something better? They all try and eat out of the same bowl even though they have a good meal right in front of them. Thats how I see things today. You ask somebody today "Hows it going" and you will get "Just trying to get by..you know". This is usually from someone who owns a nice house, makes about 50K plus a year and has a car thats not in the shop. I dont know any of my friends whos parents where rich when they where a kid. What our parents did was "getting by". Now it's just not the poor who want a handout, its the 30 something who lives better than their parents did. Conservative America has become the "give me" group of the future. VOTE BOG
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