Their base is making them unelectable.

[sibelian]

I'm thinking the Pubes had better find themselves some new fans.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnpleasableFanbase
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VocalMinority
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanDumb
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EntitledBastard

[Speck Tater]

1. It might be nice to state your point.

You give us a link to unrelated blurbs about fans of TV shows with no explanation of what point you're trying to make. I'm confused and wondering why I bothered to click on a couple of the links. Maybe a word or two of explanation would help people understand what you're trying to tell us.

[sibelian]

5. I wouldn't worry yourself about it.

I'm sure you have plenty of intesting points of your own to make.

[Speck Tater]

6. I'm not worried. I'm curious.

If you're interested in sharing your point, share it. If you're not interested in sharing it, that's fine too. Either way, I'm not worried.

[sibelian]

7. Oh, OK

I suppose it would be the observation that Republicanism is more like a kind of *fandom* than a bona fide political movement. Republicans work in a kind of fictionalisation of politics, they work in narratives, not hard and fast and properly thought through political ideas, and their followers are the kinds of people that prefer their politics to feel that way, so, naturally, their followers' behaviour maps more clearly onto the behavior of a fandom rather than the behaviour of adherents to a grown-up political philosophy. TV tropes, the linked site, lists the peculiar behaviours that seem to crop in fandoms of varying kinds and they are uncannily similar to the kinds of feuds and attitudes familiar to us all as habits of the Right.

Essentially, they're a bit like Twilight fans. But we all knew that.

[Speck Tater]

9. OK. Thanks for clarifying.

I guess I wasn't connecting the dots. I didn't see what TV had to do with Republicans. Sorry.
Now it makes sense.

[randome]

2. Their base is getting smaller and angrier.

We are on the verge of seeing 30 years of Republican ideology be pushed aside.

[sibelian]

8. And what will their base do then, poor things?

It might get a little bit nasty...

[Bake]

3. They need a new base.

Let the baggers find another party or form their own, and see how far that gets them.

Bake

[Shankapotomus]

4. Seems to me Ryan

is acting like a third party candidate on the same ticket. Romney represents the McCain type moderate while Ryan is the tea party extremist. Either one drives away the others base.