via Specter’s switch underscores the GOP’s weakness | McClatchy.
Love the Frank Luntz quote here:
With Specter’s defection, it’s all but lost the ability to filibuster legislation in the Senate — it will lose it if Democrat Al Franken is seated from Minnesota, as expected — and with it the power to command attention or influence the national agenda.
It is, for the moment at least, what former Georgia Gov. and Sen. Zell Miller said so derisively of his fellow Democrats just a few years back: a national party no more.
“Anyone who tells you the Republican Party is on its way back is smoking grass,” said GOP strategist Frank Luntz. “For the party to win, it has to have a broad base. They’ve lost the broad base.”
Republicans are losing ground in a fast-changing America where women, minorities and the young make up bigger and bigger slices of the electorate, and they all tend to vote Democratic.
The GOP engine has thrown a rod, the oil is spreading up the windshield and the rest of the GOP just wants to floor it by targeting moderates during primaries and moving further to right. Go team!
