From The Economist of 10 Nov 2012:
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But what about the Republicans? Their script is depressingly easy to write. The party's leaders will once again conclude that they lost because their candidate was not a genuine conservative, and vow to find the real thing next time. Possible future leaders like Paul Ryan, this year’s vice presidential candidate, will head to the right in preparation for the 2016 primaries. Compromise with Mr Obama will be treason.
If the Republicans do that[,] they will be abandoning all electoral sense. They managed to lose an election again in a country where conservatives still handily outnumber liberals ... with extremist positions, such as rejecting any budget deal involving tax cuts even if spending cuts were ten times greater. Their obsession with abortion and gay marriage4 seems ever more out of touch with woman and young people. And their harshness towards illegal immigrants cost then the growing Latino vote ... Plenty of independent voters, and this newspaper, yearn for a more pragmatic Republican Party. Doing a deal on the deficit with Mr Obama would signal its rebirth.
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But again, a benchmark from a conservative publication that defines conservatives verses wacko extremists.
Will the party be a conservative party? Or a party of wacko extremists? Starting this week, we discover if the party's intelligent leaders get promoted. Or if Limbaugh brainwashing, Cantor naysaying, and Tea Party ignorance continues to declare all others as evil.
Smart extremists only create one bogeyman. Wacko extremist Republicans cannot find enough bogeymen. Unfortunately, the vote also shows how many are so easily brainwash by rhetoric not supported by any facts, numbers, or intelligent thought.
Even the Dream act is somehow evil. No wonder an old guard of racists line the ranks of current Republicans. Jesse Helms and Trent Lott would heartily welcome these extremists Republicans to every Strom Thurmond birthday party.