Republican Party – Delaware Liberal

Did GOP Moderates Just Become Relevant?

By nemski May 15, 201622 Comments

Stephen Greenberg, a Democratic pollster and author of American Ascendant, writes, “Moderate Republicans will have the last word in this dramatic presidential election year.” Greenberg believes that moderates make up 31% of Republican party.

GOP On The Road to 1,000 Years of Darkness

By nemski September 12, 20122 Comments

Lindsay Graham continues to narrate the demise of the Republican Party. “If I were Obama I’d be nervous about the economy, but if I were Romney I’d be nervous about…

Schwarzenegger to GOP: “Come with me if you want to live”

By nemski May 6, 20121 Comment

In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Arnold Schwarzenegger calls on the Republican Party to be a more inclusive.

Republican Intransigence Caused by Income Inequality

By nemski May 4, 2012

If you haven’t read Paul Krugman’s column today, why not? I really don’t think I need to remind you do so.

A Document on the Decline of the Delaware GOP

By nemski May 1, 201210 Comments

If Priscilla Rakestraw’s going-away op-ed doesn’t show that she doesn’t understand what’s happening in the Republican Party, then nothing will.

Eric Cantor Seems To Want Tax The Poor

By nemski April 20, 20121 Comment

Eric Cantor isn't exactly channeling the Dead Kennedys, but he sure seems to want to tax the poor.

Saving The Republicans From Themselves

By nemski April 19, 20123 Comments

I took a lot of ribbing (some of it good natured, most of it not) that we should rebuild the Delaware Republican Party. My solution was an Open Primary. Charlie Pierce over at Esquire has a better idea.

Study: Republicans HAVE Gotten More Conservative

By cassandra_m April 14, 20122 Comments

Surprise, right? Except this time it is backed up by political science research that shows pretty clearly the steady rightward shift of the GOP. Look at this graph (click for a larger version):

Cantor Exacts His Revenge

By nemski April 10, 20121 Comment

Is the Party of the Failed Confederate States beginning to thin its ranks?

Tea Party Teabagging the GOP

By nemski April 7, 201211 Comments

When a group is founded solely on the hatred towards one man and the media stops reporting on the group's idiotic rantings, it turns out that the Tea Party is actually beginning to harm the Republican Party.

Tom Corbett Hates Poor People

By MJ January 12, 20122 Comments

Why is it that rethuglican elected officials hate poor people? It seems as though Tom Corbett, who usually scurries away from television cameras like a cockroach when the lights come…

Virginia GOP Officially Becomes Autocratic

By MJ December 29, 20114 Comments

I always love hearing the Fatman and that other RWNJ on WDEL spout off about how Democrats and Liberals are nothing but a bunch of socialists and “fellow travelers.” Apparently they haven’t been paying attention to the Virginia Republican Party. The Virginia GOP has declared that anyone who wants to vote in the Presidential primary must sign a loyalty oath. Yes, you read that correctly, you must swear allegiance to the GOP and cross your heart and hope to die that you will vote for whomever the GOP presidential nominee is.

Fear of a Black Republican

By cassandra_m July 30, 20112 Comments

This is the name of a documentary movie by film maker Kevin Williams that is screening now at Theater N in Wilmington. I went to the 11Am screening of this movie, presented by the filmmaker and his co-producer wife in person -- both of them engaging the audience in a lively Q&A afterwards.