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Originally Posted by dethtongue
A lot of the people sounding the death knell of the Republican party are forgetting that most Americans are probably slightly conservative by nature.
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This is part of why the Republican failure is so strange. In the UK, Mr Obama himself would, at the most left, be in the Liberal Democrats, the British centre party; quite likely he would be a mainstream Conservative in the UK. Mr Ryan would probably be under surveillance by MI6 as a potential fascist subversive, and at the most left he would be in UKIP; and Mr Cheney would most likely be attending a Church-organised community daycare centre and drawing pictures and listening to music through headphones in line with his individually tailored psychiatric therapy program.
The existing Republican party has detached itself from its natural constituency and is in hock to the religious right, a group too small to get a Republican president elected and too divisive to reach out effectively to the conservative mainstream.