Originally Posted By: Wiseguy_1872
How did the Grand Old Party of Lincoln, William F. Buckley Jr, Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater turn into the party of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney?


Longer than I have time to discuss now but the short answer is the Party turned South. That helped them for a while but there isn't a Republican on the horizon who can unify the disparate versions of conservatism (social, neo-con, big business, libertarian, traditionalist, etc..) And the social conservatives make noise in direct inverse to their power but they scare off independents and energize the other side.

The interesting part to me is that whoever wins this election, Obama or Romney, will lead a country where somewhere between 45-50% of the population HATES him and thinks he's illegitimate.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.