Conservative Radio Host: GOP Under Attack By "Living Dead"

The Republican Party has become many bad things--intolerant, inert, fly-blown, incoherent, and delusional--but the worst is that the GOP is no longer young. The GOP, according to a Gallup poll, has lost, forgotten, ignored, just generally scared off the younger voters, non-white voters, and female voters in all demographics.

What is a political party that is vastly white, middle-aged, male, Southern, pious, conservative, aggrieved, impotent, nostalgic, rude--and regarded negatively by more than half the respondents? Time magazine's Republican political consultant Mike Murphy looks at the demographics and warns of a coming "ice age" for the party. That is grossly optimistic. No longer in second place, the voter self-identification polls place the Republicans well behind the leading independents and the second-place Democrats. The GOP is the equivalent of a shrinking third party on its way to becoming a museum piece beside the Whigs, the Greenbacks, and the Prohibitionists. The GOP is like a zombie cartoon reading the daily headlines of the last four years and asking, "Am I dead?"

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