>Actually, thinking about it more. I think the repubs have built a house of cards that has fallen down on them.
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>First, they promote themselves as the party of morals. Then have a member whose been supportin antigay legislation for years come out of the closet with his sexual behavior. Another guy come out of the closet with his gambling behavior...and the list continues.
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>Second, they developed a strategy of hammering on their opponents, not necessarily with the truth, on topics that they discovered resonate very well with voters. Such as the swiftboaters, Rove's strategy of push polling, where asking a question puts negative thoughts in a voters mind, etc.
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>Third, they've promoted the notion of a "liberal media" as an excuse to build massive media machines that hammer home whatever the message of the day is. But they've used this machine to split America. They've painted anyone who doesn't agree with their message as the enemy. An example is a quote I heard from Rush yesterday talking about Foley. I don't remember the exact quote, but something like "the dems support imperfect humans". Meaning gays in this case.

Somewhere down the line, this mass production of enemies will leave them with more enemies than voters. Or maybe the line was crossed already. We'll see.