No sooner than Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania announces his switch from the Republican to the Democratic party, than the GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell is saying it is a disaster for the country, and Rush Limbaugh is saying that Specter should take John McCain and his daughter Megan with him to the Democratic Party! As the saying goes, OY! LOL
With this kind of mentality, it sounds like Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are also being pushed by implication out of the sinking Republican minority. How can the GOP expect to revive if they keep on making themselves more narrow in their base? A recent poll indicates only 21 percent of the American people call themselves Republicans. Do the Republicans have a death wish? Polls indicate vast majorities favor the Obama Presidency at this point, and instead of trying to appeal to these people to come back or at least consider the Republican alternative, instead the reaction is to "cut off their nose to spite their face", as the saying goes.
Until the Republican party can appeal to the moderate center and not consider the word "liberal" a dirty word, they will languish in the wilderness, seen as an historical curiosity. New leadership, based on a broad understanding of the American population, is desperately needed if we are to have a viable alternative at any time in the future!