This is kind of awesome, actually..
The republicans are estranging some of the biggest bigots from its party, which will force them to be even more inclusive to make up for the lost votes. That leaves them to focus on the old tenant of smaller government. The current economic environment makes it impossible to be a proponent of deregulation anymore. That really forces them in the direction of trying to be smart regulation with limited government.

If they lose the conservatives that want to bud into our personal lives, maybe the republicans can become a party that we don’t have to hate.

Those there deemoncrats done gone n got a negra
We gots to gets us one of dem there negras

just kidding, of course

On Election Night the root cause of McCain’s defeat was visible on TV. The crowd at his concession speech was so white that it could have just as easily been an Aryan Nations rally. Obama’s crowd, in sharp contrast, was a mix of all races.

The GOP knows that going forward they’re going to need to show some more pigment or else be faced with an ever-dwindling share of the voter pie. So they’re cultivating more diversity in order to try and win back votes from demographics that might be suspicious that they’re a bunch of closet Klan members. Hence Steele gaining the party post and their decision to actively try and raise the profile of people like Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal (an Indian) or Sarah Palin (a woman). It’s all to break down their Old White Boys Club image.

Will this lead to a crackup with the Religious Right? I doubt it. They’ll hold their noses and continue to support the party as long as it promotes a conservative social agenda and as long as they don’t try to put too many non-whites up front. A real challenge would come to the fore if Jindal tried to run for president in 2012. He’s a religious conservative, which helps him. But many white conservatives outside of Louisiana might have a hard time backing him. This is why I suspect Romney is being cultivated. He’s essentially already started his campaign, bashing Obama even though the latter has only been president a few weeks, and touting his own ideas.

But lest we get complacent, keep in mind that the Democrats are every bit as fractious as the Republicans. Pelosi and Reid are already trying to flex their muscles against Obama. And the Left wing of the party is becoming increasingly restive in the face of the growing power of Center and Center-Right Democrats.

All of this is the inevitable consequence of having only two major political parties in a country this size. Both parties are schizophrenic masses of often mutually antagonistic factions that are only together because they know they could never control the government if they broke up into smaller parties. Remember how quickly Buchannon’s Right-wing annexation of the Reform Party fizzled out? It was a brief gasp of rebellion and then everyone quietly slinked back to the GOP.

Oh well said. This is going to be very interesting..