Republican Party

[MattusMaximus]

Newt Gingrich (that damn flaming liberal! ) is weighing in again on the implications of the GOP eating its own with the whackadoodle Tea Party nuts pushing to purge the party of moderates...

Newt Gingrich warns of 'destructive' GOP primaries

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP continues to field independent candidates to the right of the party’s nominee.

“If we get into a cycle where there are tea parties and there are conservative third-party candidates, we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life,” Gingrich told POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the practice “totally destructive.” ...

... Gingrich recounted that he became speaker after the 1994 GOP sweep, thanks to a bloc of support from a moderate wing of the party that is now nearly extinct.

But do you think the TPers are going to listen to reason? Nope. They've got God on their side and in their minds they can do no wrong. Just look at all the amazing rationalizations by the TPers on this thread regarding the embarrassing loss in NY23 - it shows they've learned nothing.

These days, it seems the GOP is its own worst enemy. These TP nuts have decided they're either going to run the party or run it into the ground.

 

[BenBurch]

Isn't "Republican Party" an oxymoron?

Like "Good Death" or "Bankrupt Millionaire?"

I mean, can you think of a bunch of dour old farts less like a party if you tried?

 

[Policenaut]

My guess is the TP's and R's take votes from one another if they are on the same ballot thus ensuring a D win. We'll see though. Plus they will have ads against each other which will only help D's who will also have ads against both of them. I would have rather a libertarian who was only in reality semi-libertarian party be the new party that people were worried about but that isn't going to happen. Oh well.