The Republican Party is History

This is not an era as critical as the one which brought FDR's landslide, although there have been allusions to it.  I wonder what was on the minds of Herbert Hoover and his supporters.  Were they waiting for the likes of Lincoln and the other Roosevelt to return?  

As a Democrat, I would point out that both of the mainstream parties were split in this election, and third parties strove to take advantage of the fissures.  All results (and much rhetoric) points to the global economy--with a universal desire that a recession does not turn into deep depression.  

As the Republicans sort out "what went wrong," Democrats will be opining "what's going wrong."  It bears repeating that Americans have one president at a time and that a new one is going to get almost as many critics as voted for him.  

Your short piece was well done.  However, I personally would like to see you extend it to include the era following 1968.  My observation  is that Republicans, in general, promote Reagan and ignore Nixon.  Somewhere in that time period comes a need to critique the two Bush administrations without getting Shakespearean about it.  

The best speech I ever heard Senator McCain give was his concession speech.  He, too, seems to believe that the current situation requires a new kind of thinking. 

I mentioned that another article arrived at OpEdNews today from a new member discussing his Republican roots. To me, it is a sign that discussions like this one should be welcomed. Thank you for your article, Mr. Pachter.  

by Margaret Bassett (51 articles, 3819 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2539 comments [200 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:38:24 PM

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Thank you very much for reading and commenting on my short opinion article.

by Andre Pachter (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:49:05 PM

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When Bill Clinton left office I heard it was the end of the Democratic party as well.

 The Republican party failed in the last two elections for a simple & logical reason. They had become the neo-conservative party and had abandoned everything the Republican party stood for. They had become too much like their enemy, so to speak. Instead of cutting spending and taxes they increased spending and lowered taxes, instead of honoring civil rights the eroded or eliminated them. The democrats are as much to blame for allowing it to happen. As a Ron Paul republican I anxiously await Obama's pledge to undo much of the damage with 'the stroke of a pen', when it comes to the horrible abuses of presidential power excercised by GWB through executive signing orders, etc. If he'd do that one thing to start, which wouldn't even require congressional approval, I'd have an instant respect for the man. As it sits now he's just the puppet on the left hand of the global elite and I can't see much changing. I find it amusing how some are so enraptured by this man (he is just a man people). Are we so pathetic that we need a smooth talking politician to make us feel good?

by Ro Bo (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments) on Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:03:15 PM

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Some analyst somewhere proclaims that the Republican Party is finished, and therefore it must be so? Nah. I have heard this before, about both parties. Regroup, retool, adjust - this is what the parties do.

And then you have to wait and see what happens to America under President-elect Obama's leadership and the Dems' control. Do I make any predictions? Nope.

by Scott (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 774 comments [30 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:00:10 PM

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for taking time to comment. Actually ... and I say this as someone who cheered when Reagan beat Carter ... conservatism is dead. Finished.

by Andre Pachter (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:51:12 PM

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It's too bad the Southern Hyper-Red states weren't allowed to secede during the Civil War. Lincoln made a mistake trying to keep them in the Union. These states still have a backward, eighteenth century attitude toward social issues. If I had my druthers, I would invite them to secede again, and this time put up a Baghdad style wall before they change their minds. The South really has nothing (except for Louisiana with its gas and oil) to offer except dragging the rest of the country down with their meanness and divisiveness and hurricanes. The South is burden on the rest of the country and every year their right wing base becomes more nd more rabid, hateful and reactionary. I hope they continue their right-ward trend because then maybe they will lose every election from now on. We can't afford another low IQ president like George Bush or Sarah Palin or John McCain or Dick Cheney. This country will be destroyed with another bunch like them in power. The same for John Boehner of Ohio and Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. God what a dismal bunch of mean-spirited morons (throw in Missouri for good measure, with Rush Limbaugh) We invite you to secede now. The rest of the country will move into the 21st Century and you guys can back into the eighteenth and fight over who is going to be a slave. We don't need your jingoism, we don't need your trickle down, we don’t need your hypocrisy or slander. The public has spoken. It's time for the right wing base (headquarters in the South) to GET OUT.

by John Lorenz (24 articles, 131 quicklinks, 158 diaries, 394 comments [61 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:53:27 AM

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Hopefully, you are right, and the Republicans, like the baptist church, becomes the Southern Republicans, and the Republicans.  This would effectively reduce both to irrelivence. 

 My analisys of the internal situation, the theoligical wing (southern half) has no respect or need for science, logic or reason.   The other part has become fed up with their delusional antics, and wishes to retrurn to the roots of the party.

 If there is a break up, it will be good for the country.

by kanawah (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 111 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:03:04 PM

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