Conservatives predict end of GOP – I predict popcorn sales through the roof!
I read this and giggled my ass off.
A Barack Obama win in November will lead to a meltdown within the Republican Party, said Bryan Fischer, an influential official at the American Family Association. And he isn’t too optimistic about Mitt Romney’s chances.
“If Barack Obama wins this election the Republican Party as we know it is finished, it is dead, it is toast — you can stick a fork in it,” he told TPM Friday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “And conservatives, grassroots conservatives, are either going to start a third party or they are going to launch a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.”
Uh… “going to launch a hostile takeover?” Going to…? That’s good because what is happening now, with conservatives sitting back and letting moderates run the sow is a complete clusterf*ck right?
While he did not predict Romney would lose, he had some advice for conservatives looking to rebuild the party in the wake of an Obama re-election.
“I think if Mitt Romney loses this election that the pro-family leaders in the United States should get together with Rick Perry on Nov. 7 and start planning for 2016,” he said.
Oh jeebus, my sides…
Here is the best part – Romney is losing because he isn’t listening to Paul Ryan:
Fischer said he believed Romney would be leading national polls by double digits at this point if he had followed Paul Ryan’s lead and offered more detailed conservative positions on the budget and social issues.
“The biggest mistake is they put a bag over Paul Ryan’s head,” he said. Fischer said he was “deeply disturbed” that Ryan didn’t mention the campaign’s opposition to gay marriage in his speech to the summit on Friday.
“I got to believe that there was some kind of directive from the top of the campaign: We don’t want you to deal with this issue,” he said.
It is those rich backroom RINO Republicans messing everything up. If Romney only drove across Florida promoting Vouchercare, everything would be ducky.
Here’s another, but from the somewhat more sane Sun Sentinel opinion page in Broward County: Republicans are finished. It is worth reading the whole thing, but here is a snip:
But am I the only one who remembers how the GOP was supposed to be mortally wounded after Obama and the Democrats took over in 2009? I’m cynical about this kind of speculation, but then there is an argument that a party that continues to chase its worse instincts is a party in its death throes.
“But am I the only one who remembers how the GOP was supposed to be mortally wounded after Obama and the Democrats took over in 2009?”
No you are not. As you are aware, I periodically remind everyone how instead of delivering the coup de grâce, Obama picked them up, bandaged their wounds, and put them back in the game. There is a risk of this happening again.
Cass: No, you’re not wrong. They never stay down for long.
But they keep misreading their debacle because they refuse to question their own mythology. They really do believe that the further rightward they tack, the more people they will pick up. So a loss will move them even further to the right, hastening the day when they are a permanent minority of voters.
This election really is their last chance, and their strategy for the last four years recognized it: The recovery from this recession would be slow, so they tried to slow it even further and blame Obama for it. Their problem is that, even with governments around the world doing exactly the wrong things, the economy is recovering anyway. By 2016 they won’t be able to run against the economy anymore, and what will they have to run on at that point?
Puck, You know that I was dissapointed when Obama didn’t delivery the knock out punch, but having campaigned on being a peace maker – I’m giving him a pass on the past for years.
The next four years…? That’s a different story.
@puck:Which would, of course, be bullshit, but here you are again. This President was not going to deliver a coup de grace to a group of people he obviously needed to be seen as working with.
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