The Future of the GOP

Posted by Lonely Conservative On November - 21 - 2008

The direction of the Grand Ole Party remains a mystery. If the Republicans’ future performance is anything like their performance over the past 8 years, we’re in trouble. Hopefully they’ve learned the lesson.

This morning Michael Steele filled in for Bill Bennett on Morning in America. He can’t believe how Republicans have allowed the Democrats to co-opt the founder of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln. What a great point! I doubt most Americans have any idea Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Most Americans don’t even know that Democrats have controlled Congress for the last two years.

Bret Prelutsky (one of my favorite columbists) isn’t too optimistic about the future of the GOP.

If there is one thing that the next Republican presidential candidate should take away from this latest debacle it’s that, for all the pandering that Bush and McCain did with their open border policies, McCain, aka Mr. Amnesty, only received a smidgen of the Latino vote. So, while in some parallel universe, a Republican might be cutting into the Jewish, black and Hispanic blocs, here in America, for all the feel-good chatter about the big Republican tent, going after those votes is time and money misspent. Frankly, when you look at the demographics, the forecast for conservatives in America is none too bright. Democrats, after all, breed at a far faster rate and young people just keep getting dumber.

I hate to be a gloomy Gus, but this recent election really has me down. The inspiration for other presidents was often supplied by the likes of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln; we now have a guy who draws his moral and intellectual concepts from the likes of Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Pfleger, Alinsky and Khalidi.

So far as I’m concerned, we are already, thanks to the outsourcing of jobs and the insourcing of illegal, illiterate aliens, well on our way to becoming a third world nation. Now, with the election of Barack Obama, it seems to me we’ve made it official. Read full article.

He has a point, however, I believe writing off the GOP at this point is a bit premature. We need a few leaders with a clear vision who can articulate that vision to the American people. Really, how hard can that be?