November 8, 2006 - The “Gingrich Revolution” and Rovian Dreams of a “Permanent Republican Majority” are Dead!

This election revealed that in its current incarnation the Republican Party has devolved into a Southern extremist sect whose core members are primarily motivated by their hope of turning the U.S. into a Christian theocracy.

Voters abandoned the Republican Party in droves not because their leaders failed to live up to their supposed conservative ideology, but because in the wake of Enron, 911 and Katrina, the ideology of unrestrained corporate greed and ineffective government has no potency.

But in the final analysis this election was mostly about the rejection of Karl Rove’s politics of fear and demonization, which is bound to fail when an arrogant, incompetent and scandal-ridden party employs it.

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