Party politics and the past election, in context - an editorial opinion.

In a recent comment to this blog,  we have these familiar words of criticism:

The viewership for Fox is a dying breed... elderly, white, and male. Doesn't represent the future of America. Thanks to the rise of the teaparty (the new KKK), America has rejected that extremism and ignorance, and the GOP has become the party of old white fundamentalist bigots. How many young minorities are Republican? Almost none. This year, minority births exceeded white births. The GOP is dying... clearly.

A look at an honest response might help all of this blog’s readership to put the past election into a real time context.

Editorial Response:

Fox News has nearly equal appeal in the three major demographics, Democrat, Republican and Independents, according to any poll taken as to the demographics of its viewership. 

Non-conservative pundits on Fox include the obnoxious Shep Smith and his two,  hour long daily news casts,  Juan Williams, and Bob Beckel, Walter Mondale's campaign manager,  who gives equal time on The Five,  and has co-authored a book,  with  Cal Thomas, entitled  “Common Ground.”  IMUS in the Morning,  is a three hour morning show on Fox Business  that is clearly non-partisan (if anything,  the Skelton Man leans left), and,  on the Saturday programming for Fox Business,  fully half of the programmed pundits are liberal.   I could go on but the point is this,  while Fox’s over-all outlook is Right-leaning,  it gives much attention to the Left’s point of view. 

Secondly, I find it laughable that a member of the party (the above blog critic)  which invented the KKK, segregated the military twice (WW I under Wilson and WW II under FDR), killed thousands of blacks, burned hundreds of their churches and continues to use blacks as tokens in the current political games, would charge the tea-party with the lie of "prejudice."   The “critic”  has never been to a single tea party gathering and couldn't present the three primary issues uniting the movement across this nation,  if her life depended on it.

In the past election, while the half white (and educated "white") Obama was busy losing 8 million of his 2008 supporters (the GOP lost just 1.5 million of its 2008 support), the GOP won its 30th state house. The GOP has 6 minority governors while the Democrats, a much larger political party, has only 3.

All the crack head commentators at MSNBC are white except for their resident moron, Al Sharpton -- and why didn't the Democrats ever support Sharpton's bid for the presidency, or Jesse Jackson's, for that matter?

Viewership at MSNBC is , ahhhh, DOWN. viewership at CNN is, ahhhh, DOWN. Current TV has never had 100,000 on average watch its televised nonsense. Over the course of a single day, FoxNews is viewed by nearly 20 million different people, in this country, on a daily basis -- the largest news audience in the nation including network "news." The LA and NY Times - both, Marxist rags - are both in serious financial trouble While the more conservative publications, the WJS, the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon, are all having great financial success.

The GOP, in a terrible election cycle for that party, lost just 2 seats in the Senate and four tea-party seats in the House, hardly a “devastating” defeat.

Does the GOP need to grow its conservative and minority base? Of course, but it is doing just that. Most importantly, we have no one in the GOP that is as remarkable stupid as Maxine Waters or Major Owens, nor as rabidly anti-colonial American as Barack Obama.

While the GOP is weak as to a collection of national spokespeople,  it is not weak on leadership.   As encouraging as this might be,  the lack of a national and orchestrated voice,  is a very serious problem for the GOP.  Can it learn how to compete with the wind-bags on the Left?  That has yet to be seen.  Currently,  it is losing in this game,  big time.  

What is the future of the GOP?  Time will tell,  but it seems to be on the right track.  If it capitulates in the current fiscal debate,  however,  the future of the GOP just might be in jeopardy.  The 30 million member tea-party contingency is not in the mood for continued do-nothing compromise with the Undisciplined Big Spenders in either party.  There is talk,  after years of refusal,  of creating a "third" party,  one that would work with the GOP,  but only when conservative concerns are pushed forward by that party's leadership.