Wutch u talkin' about. They have successfully rebranded as the fringe, just say no, lunatic party of stupid squared. Earth flat or round , you decide.

How do you rebrand a group of crazies, whose one uniting factor is that they don't want a N*CLANG in the White House?
A lying bunch of tools, willing to twist facts, science, the law, morals, ethics, and arms - for their various lunatic versions of what the world should be like?

The GOP is dead. Unfortunately, what may emerge could be a lot worse.

Why should the GOP rebrand itself? It is the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan.

It is pursuing a different but very successful strategy - rebranding BHO and health care reform.

It is pursuing a different but very successful strategy - rebranding BHO and health care reform.

Ow, Parody Al. That one was waaaaaay too accurate.

The GOP doesn't have to rebrand itself. Their strategy of attacking Democrats has worked quite well in the past, and it will continue to work well.

Just look at the current coverage of the healthcare debate. We have now reached the point where most of the mainstream media is allowing the big GOP talking point about "death panels" to go unchallenged. At best they frame it as he-said, she-said, but most are now just showing right-wing nuts spouting the talking point with no rebuttal or even hint that it's completely false.

With the national media pushing your agenda has hard as possible, why bother rebranding?

The D.C. types in the GOP can't rebrand the party because once they look into it, they discover the party is now Sarah Palin, and that scares them.

Overheard in the Members Only lounge at the Union League:

"Har-rumph, egad, suh; our country has gone to the dogs,now that wimmen and ne-groes got the vote. . ."

Much worse ? The only substance to that idea is what identifiable currency is being given to the Grand Old Party . There seems to be more of the "signifying nothing" in the balance than what appeared possible after the campaign of "Maverickie Mavericks" . Despite it seeming agreeable to Cantor and his masters Limbaugh et al , the flail of in your face denial has little traction outside the "magic" of the drummers to sell and the drummed to buy .
It is more common to American experience to enjoy the show without accepting or paying for a new soap .
All these years of being a disruptive class clown have given the Grand Old Party a knee jerk reflex that at this point is painful to just about everyone trying to make ends meet .
Bachman Caribou Barbie Cantor Jean Schmidt etc
There is still that ghostly pleasure in annoying the prepared worker with buzzing wedgies , the day is over when that is what gets talked about after the ritual killing of the "Liberal" .
I hope

Lipstick on a pig.

A shout out from Rachel last night!!!

"If Dems are successful, the reasoning goes, voters will reward the majority."

Agreed. That is why I thought there was nothing to be gained by Democrats who voted for the Iraq War bill. No credit if it goes well-shared blame if it goes poorly. Probably a smart move by the Reps.

I wish the Dems would at least make an attempt to show how unserious the Republican health care plan is. Much of the hesitancy about supporting current reform bills seems to stem from the idea there may be a better proposal we haven't looked at. It needs to be clearer that the better alternatives are more government oriented, not less. Position this proposal as the middle between single payer and the Republican nonsense.

There are Republicans who are rebranding themselves. The base is rebranding as the Klan. The others are quietly joining the administration while still calling themselves Republicans.

The last time the US had a party crash and burn, the Whigs smoothly transitioned to Republicans. This is going to be much uglier.

Unless Fox and the corporations using the GOP as their tool pour ever more resources into the flat lining party, the current Republican party is dead. In at most two more election cycles, the tubes will all be pulled and the fight will be begin over the probate.

What will emerge is a business party, much like the old GOP, and a racist, fundamentalist, ultra nationalistic, mostly Southern/Appalachian party like George Wallace's. This fringe party will ally with the business party to win elections against the hated colored and gay and liberal party. But the important point is the the husk of the GOP will be wrenched from the "Base" and made respectable as the party of the Chamber of Commerce. The "base" is becoming too toxic and must be isolated into their own little ghetto party where they can be controlled and at the same time denied.

I am simply not sure who gets the name "Republican" or if both parties will change their names.

Rebranding?

They're rebranding themselves at every town hall meeting.

Keep those youtube videos coming!

" .... the husk of the GOP will be wrenched from the "Base" and made respectable as the party of the Chamber of Commerce."

Somewhere (here?) I recently ran across what at last sounds like a believable description of the actual purpose of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Its reason for being is to say the things that corporate honchos are too embarassed to say themselves.

You must be mistaken. The GOP rebranding is nearly complete. The new brand is the Circle RL and it is emblazoned on the asses of virtually the entire GOP leadership. Branding takes place at the annual CPAC round up.