Gallup's survey from January to June of over 180,000 adults shows how lost the republican party continues to be. These eight years have left it in the wilderness still, and the Sotomayor process just made it even more palpable. The only thing they've got now is the bitter-white theme, and someone, somewhere, needs to start building a new party around positive alternatives.
I remember my mother constantly calling herself a 'commie pinko liberal' even as it was never, ever true. Liberal, yes, commie pinko, nfw. And she knee-jerk hated anything that was republican. That's what is happening with Republicanism now. Knee-jerk, thoughtless, self-identified anti-it-all. What if Republicanism jumped over the social issues of the day? What if there was a big tent Republicanism that somehow pole-vaulted into something radically new?
Where could it start?
