Today's GOP

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Originally Posted by icenine

Maybe the future lies with the Ron Paul ( basically the old Taft isolationist wing) faction merging their libertarian instincts with the free enterprise aspects of the rest of the party.

Leave all the negative social distractions on the cutting room floor....
probably where it will go...HAS to go maybe.

Perhaps, but if that causes them to lose the blue collar vote to the Dems (who actually address their economic interests better than the GOP), the GOP will have precious little left other than the wealthy, business owners and gun nuts (they'll have lost the blue collar vote, highly educated, Hispanics, women, gays, the young, the environmentally aware, and blacks at that point).

The downside of Nixon's Southern Strategy and Reagan's appeal to the Religious Right is coming to its rightful conclusion, it seems.