Has The Bell Begun To Toll For The Gop?

[John81]

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday - May 18, 2012

Among the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America."

It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity.

That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, where the network president declared that subjects such as these are inappropriate for "the national dialogue."

Apparently, the mainstream media are reassessing that.

For, in rare unanimity, The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today all led yesterday with the same story.

"Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.," blared the Times headline. "Minority Babies Majority in U.S.," echoed the Post. "Minorities Are Now a Majority of Births," proclaimed USA Today.

The USA Today story continued, "The nation's growing diversity has huge implications for education, economics and politics."

Huge is right.

Not only are whites declining as a share of the population, they are declining in real terms. Between 2010 and 2011, the number of births to white women fell 10 percent. The median age of white Americans, now 43 and rising, means that half of all white women have moved past the age that they are ever likely to bear more children.

White America is a dying tribe.

What do these statistics mean politically? Almost surely the end of the Republican Party as a national governing institution.

Republicans now depend on the vanishing majority for fully 90 percent of their votes in presidential elections, while the Democratic Party wins 60 to 70 percent of the Asian and Hispanic vote and 90 to 95 percent of the black vote.

The Democratic base is growing inexorably, while the Republican base is shriveling.

Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost. The GOP has not carried any of the three in five presidential elections. When Texas -- where whites are a minority and a declining share of the population -- tips, how does the GOP put together an electoral majority?

Western states like Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, which Republican nominees like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan swept almost every time they ran, are becoming problematic for the party.

Thus the GOP refrain: We must work harder to win over Hispanics.

Undeniably true. But how does the GOP appeal to them?

Fifty-three percent of all Hispanic children are born out of wedlock, with no father in the home and many of the moms themselves high school dropouts. Most Hispanic kids thus start school far behind.

In tests of fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders, their scores are closer to those of African-American kids than whites and Asians. Their dropout rate matches that of black kids. Absent affirmative action, not only are America's colleges and universities but her professions are going to look far more Asian and white than the national population.

Not a formula for social peace.

Comes the reply: We must spend more to close the racial gap in test scores. Yet, according to The Washington Examiner, in the District of Columbia, the community where we have spent perhaps the most per capita to close the racial gap in test scores, the racial gap is by far the largest in the nation.

Not only do we seem not to know how to close it after four decades of plunging trillions into public schools, the country is tapped out. We are in the fourth consecutive year of trillion-dollar deficits, and our largest and richest state, California, just discovered its deficit has exploded to $16 billion.

And why should Hispanics vote Republican?

The majority of Hispanics are among that half of the population that pays no income tax. Why should they vote for a party whose major plank is that it will cut income taxes?

Hispanics benefit disproportionately from government programs.

Government puts their kids in Head Start before pubic school and provides them with Pell grants and student loans after public school.

From kindergarten through 12th grade, government educates their kids for free. Government provides them with free or subsidized health care through Medicaid and clinics. Government provides their families with public housing and rent supplements. Government provides the food stamps that feed the family. Government provides them with an annual earned income tax credit, a check just for working.

Government provides all these things, and what are Republicans going to do? They promise to cut government.

Again, why should Hispanics vote Republican?

Establishment Republicans say the party should support amnesty for illegal aliens. Yet this would make millions more eligible for federal programs in a country sinking in debt and mean millions more Hispanics going to the polls, and millions more coming to America in anticipation of the next amnesty.

How would that help the GOP?

By endlessly expanding Great Society programs, by lopping taxpayers off tax rolls, by supporting open borders and endless immigration from the Third World, the Republican Party, out of sheer nobility of character, has probably ensured its impending departure from history.


SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog/has-the-bell-begun-to-toll-for-the-gop-5077

[JerryNumbers]

The democrat party courts the illegals, the minority, just to going the power seat. They are no longer even close to being what the democrat party of yesterday years was. But many people still support the democrat party, thinking its the same as yesterday years. And in my area its very difficult to near impossible for a republican to get elected to a federal, state or local office, & has been that way for many years.

With what the democrats supports, I fail to see how any Christian can back the democrat party. Reason, they court illegals, they want all votes to be counted whether the vote is legal or not, they're for abortions, support homosexuality, with many of them wanting to take God out of America.

Yet, the republican party is not much better, just look at the candidate they had last president election, & the one that it seems to have for this next election. They're more democrat than republican.

[Oldtimer]

Jerry, in many ways we've been a one party country for a long time. The Establishment Party. Those firmly established in power, at all levels, intend to stay there. To stay there, they have to be part of the good ol boys network, which means they can't be too far apart in political viewpoints. Some wear Democat hats and others Republican, instead of their Establishment hat. While the decoration on the outside may be differ, both of them have the same lining.

[John81]

Jerry, in many ways we've been a one party country for a long time. The Establishment Party. Those firmly established in power, at all levels, intend to stay there. To stay there, they have to be part of the good ol boys network, which means they can't be too far apart in political viewpoints. Some wear Democat hats and others Republican, instead of their Establishment hat. While the decoration on the outside may be differ, both of them have the same lining.

That's very true, and the Repub Party is ever moving more and more towards the Dem Party.

What the article referred to about the fall of the GOP is already coming to show. This coming election will be determined by the few remaining states which might go either way. All the other states are already certainly either going to vote Dem or Repub, with the advantage to the Dems. As more states which once voted Repub become Dem states, it will become even more difficult for the Repubs to win and eventually it will become impossible.

If the Repubs continue their trend to try to become Dem Lite, what good will that do? Why should Christians, conservatives and others who once voted mostly Repub continue to vote for them when they basically are joining the other side? Why should the liberals vote for them when they can just keep voting Dem and get what they want?

What's really sad is that most of the population can't see just how close the Dems and Repubs are to one another and how no matter which one runs the government, America keeps going the wrong direction and faster speeds.

Which false religionist will run America the next four years, the Muslim in professing sheeps clothing or the Mormon? Both deny the biblical Jesus, both serve a false god, both are servants of the devil, both lead others astray.

[JerryNumbers]

I disagree, have you not seen the hate spewed out of the heart of those of one party towards the other party?

Have you forgotten all the hateful things said about President Bush?

No, its a two party country & quite divided.

Lust for power had a bad effect on man.

[Oldtimer]

I disagree, have you not seen the hate spewed out of the heart of those of one party towards the other party?

Have you forgotten all the hateful things said about President Bush?

No, its a two party country & quite divided.

Lust for power had a bad effect on man.

Jerry, much of this "hate spewed out of the heart" is smoke and mirrors. For example:

The establishment Democrats praise ObamaCare because it does so much good for the people. They spew out venom against establishment Republicans who want to take health care away from the "little children".

The establishment Republicans despise ObamaCare because it's a form of socialism. They spew out hatred against establishment Democrats who want to destroy "democracy". (Forgetting that we were a REPUBLIC.)

Yet, our presidential choices are between a man who set up ObamaCare on a national level with the man who set up the ObamaCare model in his state first. Despite all the negative campaign ads between the two men, where is the true division between them on this single issue? That old cliche of the pot calling the kettle black comes to mind, as I type.

Now I agree with you that the country is divided. And is being divided, not so much along party lines (labels), as it it other lines. Those spewing out hatred are fanning the flames that pit the haves against the have nots -- class warfare. (How many poor politicians will be on the November ballot?). More hatred is being spewed every time the race card is played on a national level for political purposes. More of the same on gay marriage, abortion, environmental issues, and anything else that can have neighbor fighting neighbor.

Yet within EACH political party we see supporters of the other party's positions. It becomes a "so what" when a candidate comes out against abortion, for example, and agrees with the pro-choice folks on every other political issue. Where is the true division?

What's really sad and frightening is the "center" between the folks on the right and those on the left as moved so far to the left, since the founding of this country, the only choices (for all practical purposes) are those on the far LEFT. Instead of comparing Romney to Obama, stop for a moment and compare him to any one of the first half dozen presidents of this country. Is Romney more like one of those in his political views or more like Obama? Within that framework of comparision is there any meaningful division betweeen our presidental choices, come November? So what if those two spew hatred from their hearts against each other between now and then, it's all smoke and mirrors.

All that said, come November, the only division we'll see at the national level is the pace at which we'll continue to see the lust for power lead to our downfall.

It's time for me to get off my political soapbox on a Sunday morning and turn my thoughts to where they should belong.

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen.

[John81]

The hate which comes forth from the left is because they want everything NOW. They know when the Repubs are in office it takes them a little longer to get what they want.

For the most part, the hate is spewed towards those who are more conservative, the Republican Party as a whole isn't conservative.

That said, one of the basic operating procedures of the left is to constantly have an enemy so they stir up hate and anger every chance they can get, even if they have to fake it and make it up.

For instance, Sarah Palin says things the left doesn't like, but when you get underneath the speech, Palin isn't even a real conservative. She supports all sorts of leftist, unconstitutional things.

When we look at what has occured during Republican presidents, even Republican presidents who had a Republican congress, we see that none of the leftist policies, agencies and programs are ever ended. What the Republicans pretend to stand against one day, they support once the Dems get it passed.

The two parties have to pretend to stand for something different and bicker with one another because otherwise the whole house of cards of them being very different would collapse and perhaps another, truly different Party would be formed. They don't want any real competition.

[JerryNumbers]

Jerry, much of this "hate spewed out of the heart" is smoke and mirrors. For example:

The establishment Democrats praise ObamaCare because it does so much good for the people. They spew out venom against establishment Republicans who want to take health care away from the "little children".

The establishment Republicans despise ObamaCare because it's a form of socialism. They spew out hatred against establishment Democrats who want to destroy "democracy". (Forgetting that we were a REPUBLIC.)

Yet, our presidential choices are between a man who set up ObamaCare on a national level with the man who set up the ObamaCare model in his state first. Despite all the negative campaign ads between the two men, where is the true division between them on this single issue? That old cliche of the pot calling the kettle black comes to mind, as I type.

Now I agree with you that the country is divided. And is being divided, not so much along party lines (labels), as it it other lines. Those spewing out hatred are fanning the flames that pit the haves against the have nots -- class warfare. (How many poor politicians will be on the November ballot?). More hatred is being spewed every time the race card is played on a national level for political purposes. More of the same on gay marriage, abortion, environmental issues, and anything else that can have neighbor fighting neighbor.

Yet within EACH political party we see supporters of the other party's positions. It becomes a "so what" when a candidate comes out against abortion, for example, and agrees with the pro-choice folks on every other political issue. Where is the true division?

What's really sad and frightening is the "center" between the folks on the right and those on the left as moved so far to the left, since the founding of this country, the only choices (for all practical purposes) are those on the far LEFT. Instead of comparing Romney to Obama, stop for a moment and compare him to any one of the first half dozen presidents of this country. Is Romney more like one of those in his political views or more like Obama? Within that framework of comparision is there any meaningful division betweeen our presidental choices, come November? So what if those two spew hatred from their hearts against each other between now and then, it's all smoke and mirrors.

All that said, come November, the only division we'll see at the national level is the pace at which we'll continue to see the lust for power lead to our downfall.

It's time for me to get off my political soapbox on a Sunday morning and turn my thoughts to where they should belong.

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen.

No, its pure hate, because they want the power, & they hate thse that stand against them. don't be naive.

[JerryNumbers]

The hate which comes forth from the left is because they want everything NOW. They know when the Repubs are in office it takes them a little longer to get what they want.

For the most part, the hate is spewed towards those who are more conservative, the Republican Party as a whole isn't conservative.

That said, one of the basic operating procedures of the left is to constantly have an enemy so they stir up hate and anger every chance they can get, even if they have to fake it and make it up.

For instance, Sarah Palin says things the left doesn't like, but when you get underneath the speech, Palin isn't even a real conservative. She supports all sorts of leftist, unconstitutional things.

When we look at what has occured during Republican presidents, even Republican presidents who had a Republican congress, we see that none of the leftist policies, agencies and programs are ever ended. What the Republicans pretend to stand against one day, they support once the Dems get it passed.

The two parties have to pretend to stand for something different and bicker with one another because otherwise the whole house of cards of them being very different would collapse and perhaps another, truly different Party would be formed. They don't want any real competition.

Most of the right has the same thoughts, they want it right now, for they are not Christian conservative, they are worldly conservative.

[John81]

Most of the right has the same thoughts, they want it right now, for they are not Christian conservative, they are worldly conservative.

That's true, and while they talk against the Left doing wrong in the name of the end justifies the means, much of the Right is for the same thing when it comes to having their way. Neither side wants to abide by the Constitution, they want to have their way done and enforced regardless of the Constitution.

[Covenanter]

G K CHesterton wrote this in about 1900. I know he was RC, but the force of the hymn is even mor relevant now than it was 100 years ago.

O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.

From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation,
Of honour and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord!

Tie in a living tether
The prince and priest and thrall,
Bind all our lives together,
Smite us and save us all;
In ire and exultation
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A single sword to thee.

[Oldtimer]

No, its pure hate, because they want the power, & they hate thse that stand against them. don't be naive.

What makes you think I'm naive?

However, I suspect we may be talking past each other. My point is simply, there's very little difference between the established Republicans and Democrats. A candidate for either party doesn't stand much of a chance of election (especially in the national arena) if they don't toe the line of those already in power.

Romney already had this sewn up tight before the MAY primary in NC. I'm sure you saw how quickly anyone with an idea or two that didn't agree with the status quo fell by the wayside. Not much, if any difference, when McCain rose to the top, last time around.

Much of the "hate" before the elections seems to evaporate after the votes are cast. Afterwards, it's let's put aside our differences so we can get this (whatever this may be) done.

IMHO, yes, they spew hate to further their agenda. However, a better word to use may be "greed". When people truly hate each other, there's rarely an opporunity for the two sides to compromise. However, when the greed for power and control is foremost, compromise is frequent (even if it's with the devil, himself) when compromise achieves their goal.

It isn't hate, it's greed that's creating all the "wars" being incited between neighbors. Generating a "hate" in me for someone across the street from me is a tool being used to keep me distracted, while the greedy gain control over me.

[JerryNumbers]

That's true, and while they talk against the Left doing wrong in the name of the end justifies the means, much of the Right is for the same thing when it comes to having their way. Neither side wants to abide by the Constitution, they want to have their way done and enforced regardless of the Constitution.

Exactly, the large majority of those that will be in charge, whichever party they be in, do not want to abide by the constitution, but they lust to be in charge, to tell others what to do, & what they can do, for in that position you have position, power, money, popularity, prestige, & become famous, while having others eating out of their hands..

Jesus could have had worldly power, you know, government power, could have ruled the world, even with an iron fist, but He didn't, He came to offer mankind grace being the Savior of mankind, He place no one under the law, He only knocked at the door, & only enters if invited.

Politicians have an agenda, & I gave the agenda in the last words of my 1st paragraph.

[JerryNumbers]

What makes you think I'm naive?

However, I suspect we may be talking past each other. My point is simply, there's very little difference between the established Republicans and Democrats. A candidate for either party doesn't stand much of a chance of election (especially in the national arena) if they don't toe the line of those already in power.

Romney already had this sewn up tight before the MAY primary in NC. I'm sure you saw how quickly anyone with an idea or two that didn't agree with the status quo fell by the wayside. Not much, if any difference, when McCain rose to the top, last time around.

Much of the "hate" before the elections seems to evaporate after the votes are cast. Afterwards, it's let's put aside our differences so we can get this (whatever this may be) done.

IMHO, yes, they spew hate to further their agenda. However, a better word to use may be "greed". When people truly hate each other, there's rarely an opporunity for the two sides to compromise. However, when the greed for power and control is foremost, compromise is frequent (even if it's with the devil, himself) when compromise achieves their goal.

It isn't hate, it's greed that's creating all the "wars" being incited between neighbors. Generating a "hate" in me for someone across the street from me is a tool being used to keep me distracted, while the greedy gain control over me.

Greed hates anyone & anything that stands in its way of what it wants, of course, Mr. Romney has bought the republican candidacy for president, he has been campaigning ever since the day Mr. Obama got elected president, even before that, for he never stopped campaigning..