Gallup: Only Five ‘Red’ States Left

Take note Gop I see the End of the GOP IS COMING keep digging gop

Hey ABC,
States with budget deficits…all dominated by Democraps. States with surplus…all but one run by Republicans(West Va-dem, Alaska-Palin, Wyoming-Rep, North Dakota-Rep)
OUCH

I don’t think the GOP is trying to disappear; it’s just becoming more divorced from reality.
I think Paul Krugman summed it up succinctly: The GOP has become “the party of stupid.”

what’s going on Rush…..not being able to do your dirty work anymore?

Republicans can fool some people for all the time, all the people for sometime, but they can’t fool all the people for all the time! When Republicans lose America wins!

Paige: “Which is why it makes no sense that the Republicans would like to move their party even further right.”
It makes perfect sense and has happened before (most recently in the UK). The moderate, middle of the road Republicans have been voted out. The only people left are the hard-core right wingers in safe, gerrymandered districts. They’ll probably decide they lost in 2008 because they weren’t far enough right and lurch one more notch out of the mainstream before they start the long hike back into relevancy.
That is assuming they ever recover – after the job Bush and his big-government spend and borrow Republican Congress did on the Republican ‘brand,’ we may see conservatives form a new party form, peel off the blue dog Democrats (who would have been Republicans back in the Reagan days), and let the fundamentalist Republican party whither away.

From coast to coast! This is something to celebrate.

jhw539 – I don’t disagree with you. Afterall, the individual gunning for the RNC Chair position has the lovely promotional CD with songs, Barack the Magic Negro and the Star Spanglish Banner ; Republican Congressman Gingrey from Georgia said yesterday that “Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the voices of the conservative movement’s conscience”
The problem with this far right mentality is unlike the UK, the demographics in America are changing and the GOP has no room for them.
Dee is correct in her post about Texas. Texas is expected to turn blue.

if we could only ban free speech and allow more strigent voter registration initiatives (particularly in the Southwest) we could have a total Obama nation much more quickly. I look forward to expanded “hate” speech doctrines, “fairness” doctrines, no id voter registration & voting laws, and, ideally, more government welfare for unproductive citizens. Maybe, hopefully, someday we could eliminate voting or dissent all together!

Mike_C,
Thank God America has real poets.
Gosh one would think you have no idea of what a stanza or iambic foot is.

I wouldn’t read too much into the past election. The nation was just tired of neocons and our military going around bombing folks and our soldiers dying in the process. Once Obama makes things worse by spending us into a whole we will never emerge from, more states will turn red again.

The Republican Party is intellectually and morally bankrupt. When Sarah Palin is the “best and brightest” Republicans have to offer and only represents folks like herself, the Republican Party is irrelevant except in the Bible Belt. When Republicans refer to Sarah as a “whack job” and “Compared to Palin, Bush looks like Cicero,” there ain’t much hope for ‘em. It’s amazing what a bunch of whiners Republicans have become after wrecking this country for 8 years and making in more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The Republicans are the best allies Islamic Terrorist could ever pray for. It’s a pity bin Laden is so smart and Bush and Cheney were so stupid as to play into his hand. Nice job Republican pultroons!

I believe it was Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh who have said we should have to pass a test to vote. They are serious and really do think that only very smart people with higher educations should be allowed to pick who runs our country. I guess I think that the very smart GOP voters who somehow got some liberals on board too, got us where we are today, and I for one hope all of us uneducated flower smelling tree hugging leberial are going to get us out I look forward to doing much that turns Ann and Rush into ragging screaming drooling talking heads before it all comes to another vote.

I left the party when it became the party of the religious right. This timing also coincided with the complete lack of fiscal responsibility in the party. I voted more independently, but this last election was democrat down the ticket.

No one will miss the GOP.
They never learn. Just look at their voting against a stimulus package after destroying the US economy.
Next the battle will be between neo-liberals (neocon democrats and market fundamentalists) and progressives (regular democrats and liberals).

The republican spokespersons such as Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Malkin, Coulter, etc. turn me away from the party.

I have been an independent all my life but think it is time to change my status to Democrat because I can’t ethically vote for a Republican anymore.
It is the party of the past. They are the party of NO. No cooperation. No ideas. No future. No non-white people. No innovation. No science. No brains.
The red states that remained have been conned into thinking the Republicans are the party for Christians or fiscal conservatism. As a Christian I find this laughable. They posture on choice and gays while not caring about torture and poverty, corruption and the moneylenders.
As for fiscal conservatism? Reagan’s Republicans left us with a huge deficit. Clinton (for all his sins) dug us out with a surplus. Bush’s Republicans have now dug us so deep we hope we can get out.
The Democrats are often weenies or wrong but for the most part they get what life is like for the rest of us and care about something besides Wall Street, Power and Taxes. They are inclusive. They are part of the modern era.

Republicans seem to have selective memory on this blog. It was a republican dominated house and senate along with the president Bush’s policies that spent us into deficits. And as for welfare, obviously Republicans have no issue giving wall street bankers a free hand with no accountability, string attached or transparency. So much for fiscal “conservatism”.
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Steve,
Once again your assuming and way off base.
A. I was never in favor of these stupid bailouts! Unlike you, I am not a brain dead zombie that just falls in line with what my party leadership says.
B. Go check the voting record on the TARP bill. IT WAS DEMOCRATS WHO PASSED IT.
C. IT WAS DEMOCRATS WHO FAILED TO PROVIDE THE OVERSIGHT ON TARP!
D. THOSE SAME DEMOCRATS ARE NOW NOW WRITING “STIMULUS” BILLS THAT CLAIN BIRTH CONTROL AND MONEY FOR THE ARTS WILL STIMULATE THE ECONOMY!
E. As far as my poetry is concerned, I’ll take Metallica over Elizabeth Alexander any day of the week !

The simple and fair solution here is to let Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska and Alaska succeed from the Union. This would effectively end all of the Red State v. Blue State nonsense and those who believe in individual freedom could have their country and those who favor a more collective/socialist state can have theirs.

Sorry, Mike, but states with surplus being ‘run only by Republicans????’
Wyoming’s governor (wildly popular) for the past two terms is a Democrat.
Check facts before writing, please

It will only take another election cycle or two before the IRRELEVANT PARTY winds up being even LESS pertinent than the LIBERTARIAN Party. These GOP Fools have no clue how much America despises these Bozo’s, but we sure have started giving them the message and directions to the door…hehehehe :):):)

you do realize that Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, have been in control of Congress for over two years now, right?
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You love that argument, but have you forgotten,
Bush and Paulson on their knees with every doom and gloom economic scenario BEGGING Reid and Pelosi for help?
Their mistake was believing them. Believing them when they preached for months the “economy was strong” when it wasn’t and then believing they had to follow the Republican bail-out or America would never recover…….

Mike_C – yes you and stupid make a great pair.

“You love that argument, but have you forgotten,
Bush and Paulson on their knees with every doom and gloom economic scenario BEGGING Reid and Pelosi for help?
Their mistake was believing them. Believing them when they preached for months the “economy was strong” when it wasn’t and then believing they had to follow the Republican bail-out or America would never recover…….”
You keep repeating this, Paige. So, what you are saying is that Pelosi and Reid has such bad judgement that they believe Bush, but they have great judgement now? Sounds like they are part of the problem.
You seem to think I’m a Republican – I’m not. I’m also not a Democrat. I’m just a voter who is feed up with both of these groups of clowns in Congress (and the apologists on both sides).

I’m with stupid – we are no different. However, YOU keep bringing up the Dems being in control of congress the past two years when the majority of the out of control spending was done during the previous 6 years.
I wish like heck Reid and Pelosi would have put up a fight on the bail-out, but the media jumped on board with Paulson and Bush and all of them managed to scare the daylights out of everyone.
I blame Paulson and everyone in the Treasury department for this debacle. Pelosi is part of the problem, but not THIS one.

Paige,
If thats your criteria for credibility, then every liberal in the country has NONE!
The FACTS are the FACTS! You dont have to like them, but you CONNOT change them!
Despite liberal attepts to put the entire blame on Bush, the FACTS have always shown differently.
Prlosi & Reid were all to eager to jump in on the first bailout. Remeber her insane ramblings right before the first vote on that one? Brilliant Leadership in a crisis. Bush is gone, but Pelosi & Reid are still in control of congress and still making the SAME MISTAKES! The Same old politics as usual – NO CHANGE AT ALL !
Change would have been for her to bring a bill forward without all that pork stuffed into it. I really beleive she thought after the TARP bill flew by so fast, that this one would too and that all the pig meat would get by undetected! That is how incredibly arrogant and STUPID she is! Watch that video I mentioned, she has no idea what she is saying.
As I said, watch those approval numbers plummet for the Congress. That will be the Democratic Approval taking that dive. They have control of the legislative agenda just as they have had it for 2 years now! You did not see any Democrats stepping forward to get regulation on Freddie/Fannie until the horse or in this case the Frank was out of the barn!
The demise of the Republican Party is seriously being overstated. You only have to give Pelosi/Reid/Frank/Dodd…etc, the rope, it is inevitable that they will hang themselves with it. They can’t help it, it is the inherit nature!

“I’m with stupid – we are no different. However, YOU keep bringing up the Dems being in control of congress the past two years when the majority of the out of control spending was done during the previous 6 years.”
I keep bringing it up because people here keep talking as if the Republicans have been in control of Congress since Bush was elected. The simple fact is, they haven’t. The Democrats have been in control for over two years and haven’t done anything of substance.
Congressional Democrats, especially those in charge (ie, Pelosi and Reid) are a big part of problem. They rolled right along with pretty much whatever Bush wanted, all the while blaming him and the Republicans. There is plenty of blame to go around, but for some reason, people around here seem to think that the Democrats have been some sort of innocent victims and not willing participants in this mess.

With a little good prior planning, I imagine most people could live out their entire lives without ever having to step foot in those states.