Election '08
Western Republicans: Soul-Searching Time
By Jonathan Weber , 11-09-08
The sweeping Democratic victory across much of the West has state Republican Parties in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and even Idaho questioning their leadership and direction. In Colorado, some predictable sniping at the tactics of the party leadership is accompanied by a deeper argument over whether the party should turn to the right, as Tom Tancredo is urging, or move to the center, reports the Denver Post. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, Republicans are facing population trends (i.e. in-migration and urbanization) that look grim indeed, reports Floyd McKay at Crosscut. Oregon now has no statewide officeholders from the GOP for the first time ever. In Idaho, Republicans remain in firm control and the state party considers Tuesday to have been a fine day.giving some pause on both sides of the aisles.
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Except for the Ruby Ridge/Oklahoma City Terrorist Bombing stuff that will invariably happen, the GOP getting older, whiter, and angrier will further isolate them into a circular firing squad and allow the rest of us get to work.
It isn't their age which is getting to the Republicans so much as their growing nativism. When a party begins to acquire such a wide assortment of scapegoats as post-Nixonian Republicans have needed it no long before the onus will drag them down...