The GOP has become the Whig party they replaced. The Democrats remain the racist, elitist-led/fool-followed party they always were. As the party that panders to race-hatred, envy, greed, and other staple vices, the Dems are likely to outlast cockroaches, so we need to deal with the GOP if we want to keep our Republic.

The GOP needs to go the way of the Whigs: replaced by a party with the chine to stand up to the Dems. Critical mass? Look at the tea parties or, better, look at how fast the number who self-identify as Independents grows. The choice now is not to help the moribund GOP beat the vile Dems. We did that in 2000. How’d that work for us?

So, it’s a new party, as in the 1850s. Fail at that or back the rat bastards into too tight a corner and it’s the regiments, as in the 1860s. Fortunately, as always, the regiments are ours (mainly because the regiments are us). The political class, giving invertebrate life a bad name, will slither toward whatever emerges as a new venue for parasitic feeding, so the “need” for the pros is less than one might think. All we need do is put out a new feeder and like possums, ‘coons, and stays, they’ll come running.

It’s time to put the elephant out of its misery.

Believe me, if the Democrats weren’t determined to fast-track this country into bankruptcy, I’d seriously consider protest voting for a third party or waiting until the danged GOP would at least pretend to want a Contract with America.

In my life, I’ve never seen the absolute moral bankruptcy of both parties, who would literally screw this country up beyond repair as long as they could bring a few million back for an unused airport runway, a rock-n-roll museum or an order of ships that the Coast Guard explicitly said it didn’t want. F*king disgusting.

You really do have to destroy the Republican Party to save it from itself and it as much a regional battle as it is an intra-party one. The Northeastern, liberal, go-along-to-get-along elites hate anything to do with the South. They only have a token interest in giving lip service to issues that stir the base as wedge issues during an election year. They love big government as much as Democrats and they are running a country club where anyone south of Virginia might as well be considered a lawn jockey. With the exception of Florida where their efforts to establish a RINO retirement reserve have recently been thwarted.

Those people don’t care about the future of the country, or some nebulous brand of conservatism, the views of the people who the Tea Party movement appeals to or anything beyond maintaining the power they’ve obtained.