What will happen to the GOP after Tuesday when they LOSE? I predict some fun CHAOS.

[RBInMaine]

Think about it. Well over a BILLION dollars spent on their rotten ads. An economy, while slowly improving, is at almost 8% unemployment. And STILL THE the GOPUKES LOSE. They will not be able to imagine it. They will screech about voter fraud, and the MSM loving Obama, and hurricane Sandy, and Chris Christie being a traitor, and that they should have nominated someone else, .... bla bla bla... And they will want to fire "RINSED PENIS" from his post as GOP chairman, and FreepLand will have a major freakout, and they are going to go into disarray, and oh, it is just going to be SO MUCH FUN !!

[Skittles]

1. based on the current hysteria of Hannity and Rush

I'm guessing they're praying for good old repuke election shenanigans to install Mitt to his rightful place

[RBInMaine]

3. Ya but AFTER the MittTwit LOSES, what do you think Rush and Hannity will do? Jump off cliffs?

[Norbert]

6. They will blame dead people voting...

'liberal' dirty tricks and Hollywood liberals Katy Perry/Madonna/Springsteen/Clooney...any excuse except for the most obvious. That is Mitt and their candidates which I liken to a bunch of turds. You may be able to polish a turd but in the end they are still turds.

The lesson the GOP should head. 60 years ago it took moderate Eisenhower, not conservative Robert Taft to get them in the White House. Conventional wisdom, kick the shambles of the Tea Party to the curb because they became the detriment to them taking the senate. Take the losses for the short term and build a better party. Any chances of that happening? I think we know the answer.

[Skittles]

8. I dunno, but I would be tempted to watch

I mean, they have worked SO HARD against Obama

[SteveG]

32. One can only hope.... (nt)

nt

[BlueDemKev]

41. Hopefully...

...Rush will drop dead of heart attack and Sean WHAAAAnity will move to the Republic of Crybabyland.

[nc4bo]

2. The GOP needs rehab. They will have 4 years to get clean and even then, several years of probation.

The entire party needs to be gutted, top to bottom.

Who will have the spine to do it?!

[RBInMaine]

4. Do you think there is ANY chance they will moderate, or will they double down on TeaBagism?

I think they will double down in TeaBagism and say they lost because Mitt was too moderate. Bwahahahahahahahaha...

[nc4bo]

5. OMG I hope not - please no.

Teabaggery must GO!

Haven't these idiots been paying attention? Even here in NC, Teabag Queen Renee Ellmers even STFU after riding the Teabag Express (NC being a purple state that will get bluer and bluer). Not raging Renee anymore, more like pacifier Patty.

I changed my mind about the rehab. Exorcism is what's needed.

After seeing what the tea party is all about, the majority of Americans reject it, 4 more years will be the proof!

[RBInMaine]

7. I say let them double down on TeaBaggery and further SINK their pathetic party.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

17. That seems to be what they will do.......

This cycle was there last shot at power.... the demographics are against them for the foreseeable future...

[BlueDemKev]

42. Win or Lose, Tea-Baggers Now Control the Republican Party.

Either they acquiesce to their demands or the tea-baggers will form a their own party (like the "Constitutional Party" or some bull shit euphemistic name), which will throw the Republican Party to the brink of extinction.

[Coyotl]

9. I predict that my Red cousins will fall silent on Facebook for a week

while the recover from their delusions

[johnlucas]

10. The Republican Party will die on the National Stage, that's what

This is The End for the Southern Strategy which is the driving force behind the Republican Party's numbers.
Obama winning here & winning in landslide form will show everyone once & for all that their band of bigots can't win national elections anymore.

They will either triple down with this strategy for 2016, get beaten even worse, & become more irrelevant
OR
They will purge the bigots & go searching for a new loyal base to pad the greedy rich guys running the party which puts them in the wilderness for the next few elections.

What that really means is that the party as we know it is dead on the National Level.
They may not be able to recover after allowing the bigots to have shelter & political influence in their party.
They may not able to find another reliable AND sizable enough base to replace them.
And they certainly can't go on with them in the near future.

On the Regional Level the Republican Party will be around for a good while to come but since they will lose a National platform eventually their regional power will get weaker & weaker every election cycle.

The Republican Party may just Whig out if ya smell what The Rock is cookin'.
When they stopped being the Party of Lincoln in 1877 leaving the Blacks in the lurch, they began to lose their moral edge.
By backing the greedy rich over time, they began to lose it even more.
When they invited the racists after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they lost it totally.

Franklin Roosevelt helped the Democratic Party atone for its past evils & gained a moral edge.
He turned this party into a force for Social & Economic Justice for ALL & that's why the modern-day Democratic Party should be the standard-bearer for this cause.
Through Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, & now Obama who himself has an opportunity to remove the weakened will that has plagued the party for decades.
I expect him to do much better in his 2nd term than in his 1st.
I expect him to do much less unnecessary compromising & much more pushing behind what is right.

He now holds that moral edge & the Republican Party does not.
This election will show the consequences of not doing what's right.
John Lucas

[AlinPA]

14. They can't purge the bigots. The party is loaded with bigots, so they will purge anyone who even

seems halfway moderate. It has been taken over already by the extreme right wing.

[johnlucas]

24. That's right. And that was my point

Look at what I said here & look at what I highlighted.

They will either triple down with this strategy for 2016, get beaten even worse, & become more irrelevant
OR
They will purge the bigots & go searching for a new loyal base to pad the greedy rich guys running the party which puts them in the wilderness for the next few elections.

What that really means is that the party as we know it is dead on the National Level.

I put up this hypothetical Either/Or scenario to show JUST HOW BLEAK it is for the Republican Party.
Check out the rest of that passage.

They may not be able to recover after allowing the bigots to have shelter & political influence in their party.
They may not able to find another reliable AND sizable enough base to replace them.
And they certainly can't go on with them in the near future.

Looks like a no-win situation, don't it?

You lay with dogs, you're gonna wake up with fleas.
And these fleas have sucked all the blood out of the Republican Party.
Parasitic ticks just bursting with sucked-up blood.
It's gonna leave that Republican Dog dead.

The Republican Party failed to do what's right in 1964 & lost their last opportunity to regain a moral edge.
If the party once identified with the slaveowners—the Democrats—can atone & support legislation like the 1964 Civil Rights Act & the Republicans can't, then what does that say about the Republican Party?

They had no choice but to absorb the Democrat/Dixiecrat bigots to hold onto power.
They would have been another Whig Party if they didn't.
And sure they got about a good 50 year run out of that acquisition.
But now it's time to pay the piper.
When you make a deal with the devil, you will lose your soul in the end.
John Lucas

[AlinPA]

25. Yours is a good post. Thanks.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

18. +1000 nt

[LukeFL]

31. Kick!

[NewJeffCT]

11. They'll think it was because Romney was not a true enough conservative

clearing the way for Christie-Rubio in 2016, or (Jeb) Bush-Christie because Christie or Jeb can pass for a sane conservative some of the time.

[AlinPA]

12. It won't be fun for anyone. They are so crazed now that violence may be their way of reacting.

The teabaggers will take over the party for good claiming Romney was not far enough to the right. I would not be surprised if Boehner and McConnell were replace by extreme right wing teabaggers.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

19. Second Amendment solutions....

[BigDemVoter]

13. Yes, it will be SWEET

but I don't ever "misunderestimate" the power of $$, ignorance, stupidity, and greed. . .
The repukes aren't done yet, but this will be a giant blow to their self-esteem.

They'll have some other ignorant asshole in 2016, but hopefully the public has caught on that trickle down economics and a hard right-wing social agenda are NOT what we need!!

I'm looking forward to going to work on Wednesday morning.

[AlinPA]

23. I don't think it will be "sweet". They will react with violence.

[BlueDemKev]

15. Let's win first, and then we'll sit back and find out!

[RBInMaine]

21. If you've seen my other posts you'll note I have said GOTV GOTV GOTV & told about my own GOTVing.

[BlueDemKev]

40. Amen.

[progressivebydesign]

16. Too soon Too soon. Apparently some people here did not experience the Kerry/Bush debacle...

people were posting pics of champagne on ice early in the Election Eve, high 5ing each other. Never, ever, do you want to be on DU when the election is stolen in Ohio, the way it was that night. It was horrible. That's why the long-time DUers do NOT celebrate or post things like this in advance.

[RBInMaine]

22. VERY FEW really thought Kerry was going to win that election. Every real prediction model had Bush

winning by a small margin. We don't need to be paranoid. People are on top of ANY problems. THOUSANDS of lawyers are going to be standing by in Ohio. Obama is already way up in early voting. And if you have read my other posts you will see that I have said GOTV GOTV GOTV right through election day and have told about my TONS of GOTVing and what I will be doing myself right through election day.

[BigDemVoter]

27. You think only "long-time DU'ers" were privy to that travesty of justice?

As if posting high numbers on this blog-site makes one "smarter" or more "in-tune" with what's going on? pulease.

[Polldancer2012]

20. The Conservatives will come out stronger

They will blame the loss on the wishy washy moderate Mitt and claim that a candidate Rubio or Thune (lol) would have fared better. 2016 will NOT be Jeb it will be Rubio riding the Tea Party express lol.

[goblue316]

26. It doesn't matter who they put up

in2016, Hillary is going to run and we will have our 1st Woman President!!! I think that the republicans just lied themselves into a 12 year hiatus.

[Polldancer2012]

28. That'd be great

I'm a big fan, always have been. I'm just afraid she's going to be the "fall guy" for the Benghazi tragedy. It will turn into a full blown Congressional investigation and Hillary has the character to carry it on her shoulders. Sad.

[RBInMaine]

29. My right wing "friend" still won't bet. Asked him again. Still stammering and squirming.

[Sunlei]

30. We're going to have to focus HARD on any GOP voted in and prevent their bitter obstruction.

[DFW]

33. MY bet: nothing

Just like they started planning for the obstruction of Obama before he was even inaugurated, I think they are planning to find themselves a young, cute-talking, photogenic, obedient Republican candidate who will be a "fresh face" that won't already be old news by the time the first primaries are held.

No chaos--just another board meeting to plan out strategy, budget and expenditures--and deciding who'll be the fall guy in cases where they need to do some human sacrifice (are you listening, Ohio Secretary of State Husted? Is your political life insurance paid up?)

[DCBob]

34. I agree. They know this may have been their last big chance to win..

given the inevitable changes coming in demographics that favor Democrats. Buchanan, Limbaugh and other conservatives have esposed this concern during the past few months. I think they are sincerely disturbed about this. Not sure what they are going to do or can do about it though.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. I Tend To Agree With You

But if everything is relative how good is this economy as to where President Obama found it?

I think a plurality or bare majority of Americans can figure that out.

[crazylikafox]

36. They will begin impeachment proceedings on Obama...

2 weeks max

[DCBob]

37. I suspect there will be more talk of Red states seceding from the Union.

Many conservatives want to go back to pre civil war. Dumb but they might be able to pull it off in some states.

[vilify]

38. More voter suppression

More blatant racism.

[barbiegeek]

39. Militia crap like OHIO militia in 2009