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To: Bilow who wrote (685311)	11/18/2012 1:31:12 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1584063

Hi tejek; Yes the Republicans have problems but the party out of power always has "problems". My point is that the US is fundamentally a 2 party system and it will continue to be so. Getting elected is fundamentally an exclusionary process. Democrats who get excluded will naturally look to get onto the ballot some other way. In most cases, that means a conversion to Republican. Reagan was a former Democrat. My guess is that in looking for a successful presidential candidate, the Republicans should be looking for former Democrats. The wedge issue on that is social conservatism. At the time that Reagan became an R, the differences between the two parties were not that great. Back then, the major difference had to do with the Civil Rts Act of 1964 and Dem support of non whites. That was the beginning of the Dems getting serious about social issues. And Reagan emphasized that difference by reinforcing the southern strategy developed by the GOP, using the term states' rights as code to alert southern whites exactly where he stood on the issue. In the meantime, the fiscal differences between the parties were not all that great. Despite R claims to the contrary, both parties had worked to reduce the debt incurred during WW II and had been fairly successful at it. It was under Reagan that the debt started to grow again. Rs became great at talking fiscal conservatism while practicing something quite different. Flash forward to today, and the GOP is getting kicked in the butt on both issues. Its become clear to many Americans that Rs don't have the economic understanding they claimed they had, and their southern strategy and partisan bigotry is causing them to be on the wrong side of US changing demographics. The Republican gaffes make news mostly because the media is primed to report them. Eventually one of two things is going to happen. Either the economy will start booming again and people's economic interests will switch from needing government support to wanting to keep taxes low, or the economy will remain crappy and people will blame the authorities. Either way the Republicans will eventually end up in power again. Roosevelt broke this by a combination of a very deep depression and the uniting effect of a really big war. I don't see either of these happening any time soon. The media has been the Rs favorite whipping boy whenever they want to play victim. The truth is whatever bias there has been in the press in years past, assuming there was any, no longer exists. Study after stud,y which the Rs choose to ignore, underscore that truth. Thus the R gaffes that the media report are very real........and demonstrate exactly how out of step the Rs are with the rest of the nation. As for power reverting back to the Rs, that could well happen I suppose but I think it will require some significant changes like the Rs moving back to the center. Time will tell..................