@izzythepush,
I find I have to repeat myself in these threads as as folks just keep on trying to convince Republicans that in the face of this defeat, the GOP needs to make a dramatic changes in it's underpinnings and it's direction.
To be fair, Republicans try and foist the same shite off on Democrats whenever they suffer a defeat (see their loss of the House in 2010).
The victors never seem content enough to simply crow over their victory, they want to rub the noses of the vanquished in their loss, and then oh so sincerely offer them the well intentioned advice that they must convert themselves to a replica of the victor's party.
The GOP does need to make some changes. First and foremost, they need to develop a connection with a culturally conservative group of immigrants who by virtue of tough Republican talk about illegals, have started to form a connection with the Democrat party that is approaching exclusivity.
They also need to make way for the New Breed of Republicans who are probably not as seasoned as they should be, but have to be promoted to the front ranks.
They also have to put aside their inherent gentlemanly aversion to gutter politics. Now that The Chicago Model has proven to be quite effective, the Democrats are going to embrace it until their next defeat. In 2016, when the Democrats bring a knife to the campaign, the Republicans have to bring a howitzer. Liberal pundits will scream bloody murder about negativity, but 99.9% of them gave Obama a pass with his, so screw them.
As our youth mature and gain wisdom, many of them, unless they've allowed themselves to become entrapped in the low place of government handouts, will become conservatives. It takes time to find the truth and, obviously, many never do.
Bottom line is that the report so the demise of conservatism in America are, yet again, greatly exaggerated.
Major crisises lead to major changes in the thinking of the electorate: the Great Depression, the Vietnam War and 9/11 to name but three. I appreciate that American's liberals believe that Obama will somehow steer us away from a fiscal crisis that will make the Great Recession look like a housewife's unbalanced checkbook, but do they really believe that he has ushered in an era without crisises? I know they thought he could slow the rise of the ocean and heal the earth four years ago, but really, he's now brought us back to the Garden?
Politics, at least in America, is a modern expression of the fact that our genetic reliance on tribalism hasn't been stripped from our DNA. The Obama Tribe didn't even come close to obliterating their rivals across the river.
