Well, we know who hates the Republican Party. Thanks Doug, for bolstering Obama´s minions. "Former Republican" sounds a better title for you.

L.I.B.E.R.T.A.R.I.A.N.

Can you say RINO? The Republican Party is run by big government progressives who hoisted themselves and the Republican Party on their own petards when they declared war on the best thing they had going for them, the TEA Party.

R-E-V--O-L-U-T-I-O-N!!!

The reports of a GOP death are overstated and premature.

Can I say this without getting banned? Screw you.

The article is unfortunate but true. The GOP is becoming irrelevant as it stands today. The divide between Conservatives and Moderates is too large to bridge. The leadership is entrenched in the DC "reality-world view". If honest, the GOP has accomplished very little in the past 13-14 years.

Sometimes you have to realize the Brand has been so damaged it is no longer possible to save it.

The people who have supported the GOP over the decades are great. The leadership is Worthless (both conservative and moderate). We have the capability to create a great party that can take American away from the democrates and towards the ideals and dreams it was designed to be.

BUT we can´t do it with the leaders we have. We can´t do it without principles. AND we can´t do it under the Brand name GOP. I am sorry if that upsets you and your views. I´m not looking for an arguement because you cannot argue with reality and facts. My hope and belief is we can come together and recreate ourselves sooner than later. If not we lose our freedom and we lose the meaning of being an American.

Face facts, cut your loses, solve the problem and do it with a positive attitude.

I agree we have problems, namely the establishment cronies who are just in it for themselves--the professional politicians. But we also have to be more active and more vocal about changing this. We MUST stop voting for the same idiots over and over again. We also need to re-energize the base into getting involved. We let ourselves fall into this funk because we did nothing after 2010 to keep the momentum up. We got the House back. We should have kept working hard to fight for more. But instead we allowed the media to have the loudest platform and we did NOTHING to counter their endless lies and propaganda campaign. We have to stay strong, committed and motivated. Instead, we keep falling back into complacency and WORST OF ALL...we sit back and expect someone ELSE to come rescue us. NOBODY is going to rescue us. God helps those who help themselves. Instead, we sit and wait for someone else to do it and then wonder why things keep getting worse. The Democrats don´t sit around expecting others to do their dirty work. They go out and do it themselves.

Our only hope is for ALL good people to get involved and active. We should not be at home watching TV. We should be meeting with our local chapters, making fliers, writing/advertising blogs or doing whatever it takes to save what´s left of our country. We´re at war. WAR! Could you imagine our parents or grandparents expecting someone else to beat Germany & Japan and not doing anything to ensure victory in WWII??? This is bigger than WWII and still people just sit around and whine waiting to be “saved”.

The headline writer has confused a grave prognosis (no pun) with an autopsy, the latter of which would be conducted post mortem. Right now, the patient is still on the operating table.

Actually there is nothing unnatural about this death, which has been in progress for some 100 years. The problem is the burial, which is some 3 generations tardy. Reality is simple. The GOP has been secular, progressive and corporatist since 1854 and never had anything to do w/principled conservative values and traditions. NEVER!!! Can we get a burial party to do the honors or at the very least, set this odious carcass ablaze. A show of hands please?

Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachmann, Jim DeMint and Rand Paul ( if he adjusts on foreign policy) are the new Liberty/Freedom Party. My votes still out on Rubio.

They will lead us given the opportunity. We must engage and stay engaged with these people.

#1: There´s a growing number of us who are "former Republicans" - for good reason. Better to have several parties true to their principles than two "big tents" who are not. The point your side ignores is that with a multi-party system, no party will be likely to have an absolute majority - including the Democrats.

All I can say is there are a lot of stupid people out there and I include a great many who post on this forum. After all, the GOP was also pronounced dead in 1964, 1974, 1992 and 2008 and that´s just the announcements I recall from my own lifetime. I believe the GOP was also proclaimed dead in 1936 and again after the 1948 election. Considering the current balance of power in the state capitols around the nation and the fact that Republicans still do control the House this so called dead party is currently a heck of a lot healthier than it was after any of these early pronouncements of its demise.

it´s true #7, we (conservatives), did defeat the democrats to win the House of Representatives, but we did not defeat the republican leadership, whom control the House. Thus, in the end, WE did NOT win the House.

You are right, also #7, when you opine that we are in a WAR, but its a much different war than WWII, because we´re in a war against a Marxist CANCER inside our bowels. We are being attacked from within. We must cleanse our system, yet, in our weakened state guard against attack for our enemies abroad. It´s a daunting task, and our future, truly, hangs in the balance.

Like many cancer patients, I think the American people are in a state of denial.

It is evidence of what ails us that the third comment to this article refers to "Rino´s". We need to broaden our tent, not narrow it. We shall survive by unity rather than by dissent. The Tea Party is not a party, nor can it ever be.
We shall not be sustained by screaming and shouting, but by principled opposition.

Well all his points may be true.

But as the man once said, compared to what?

I think teleprompter is a one off and when he exits the dims´ cult of personality will be finished.

And there´s a pretty good chance the bloom will be off teleprompter´s rose as the steady drip drip of bad news from obamacare, foreign affairs and the economy splooges out.

( continuation) Principled opposition is
what Boehner and McConnell provide.Stay off their backs. Someone who hates us is watching us self destruct.

#12 says it well....those of us old enough to remember know that this is NOT as bad as it has been in the past.

God Bless America!

First we must defeat the RNC with its McCains, Romneys, Bushes, and Doles. Then, and only then, can we confront the Marxists. The current Republican leaders are as much enemies of freedom as the Democrats.

I will mention another anti-republican force and that is some of the teachers in college and high school are telling the kids that the dems wil give them a free education and they won´t have to repay their
student loans.

I can´t believe someone actually put the phrase "principled opposition“ in the same sentence with the names Boehner and McConnell.

Buh Bye GOP/NRC. Reality has finally caught up to you. The crocodile tears and pitiful pleas for unity while you stab your base in the back has final reached the saturation point. Trotting out the "if you don´t vote for us, your the reason
the democrats will win meme well has finally dried up.

The reason your soon to be a rotting corpse is because of the greed of the leadership. No one trusts you anymore, and you refuse to accept responsibility for your failings, thus your demise is certain and its your own fault. We will survive without you. Actually we have been surviving in spite of you for a while now anyway.

This article completely ignores that the GOP controls about 30 state governments. It is the national party, the RNC that needs some leadership. Presently, Obama is "appointing" the leadership every time he invites John McCain and Lindsey Graham to the White House for conferences. Naturally, he picks the weakest links for the GOP leadership posts. And John McCain´s ego is so blinding to him that he cannot see how he is being played for a useful tool by Obama and his minions. Ted Cruz, John Lee and Rand Paul are not likely to invited into a spotlight by anyone in the White House; they will only be smeared as "extreme."

Republicans will stage a presidential comeback ony when they quit telling all women that government must make their reproductive choices for them through repeal of Row v Wade. And that Repubicans will never accept a penny of increased taxes on the zillionaires who rip off the little guys suffering under artificially manipulated high gas prices. For Republicans of all types to succeed, they must quit giving up on the women´s vote and the little guys´ vote.

A bigger tent with less people won´t help the Repubs win. All it will take is the right leader to step up with a new Party. Not a party that everyone perceives as long or nuts.

I´d like to put my energies toward something... It won´t be the GOP again.

The left is unified in its support of totalitarian socialism. Outside of the left, there are big government Rockefeller Republicans, social conservatives, militarists, and libertarians. I don´t think any party can unite them. The overwhelming majority of Americans are either totally or significantly dependent on government handouts. The left and the media have successfully demonized european-american males. For those who believe in freedom and private property, our political system has nothing to offer.

Some truth and a lot of hyperbole but that´s a good way to make a point. The Republican Party has become top heavy and effete. The Democrats do disrespect them and think they can dispatch the Republicans with a well aimed shot like you would dispatch a rabid dog.

That won´t solve their problem which is the constitution. They want to discard it and the American people want to keep it.. The Republicans might be exhausted and virtually comatose but they´re on the right side. The Democrats will fail because socialism doesn´t work and collectivist totalitarians always fail. Meanwhile the constitution remains unscathed just waiting for a champion to honor it. Hopefully that will be the Republicans but if not it will be the same people with a different name.

The good old boys are the huge stumbling block . For anything positive to happen they must go, and if they won´t go we are long gone for more suitable Constitutional pastures.