It's growing in Turkey and Egypt, it's working out in Iraq, Lebanon got raped by foriegners, Kuwait has an elected parliament.  I see no reason democracy won't work better than in Europe--where its sublimated to a bureaucratic technocracy.

Kissinger wasn't Philo Vance, I grant you, but as you've said earlier, he accepted defeat as a reality.  Loo, seerr.

Arkham Assylum?  sounds like a porno

hrm it's 50% dropout in LA Unified, 20% teen preggers, not yet...Planned Parenthood wants it 99% sexually active and 0% pregnant.

but already 50% of high school freshmen will not graduate.

Dictators tend to be temporary.

"Not if by moving to the middle you lost everyone on the right's support, as has been the case in recent history. Sure, you COULD go all the way to the left and meet Obama at socialism. It might even get you more supporters. But short of that move, they'd only do better to actually get the non-socialists in this country voting rather than staying home because it really doesn't matter if you're ALL THE WAY left or just 9/10 the way."

I'd agree! except...they're not gonna pick up more voters, that's the sad thing, the Left trusts their own veteran crew, the indies know these guys are being total whores.  If their split-the-difference system worked, McCain should not have lost 7 million Bush voters.  McCain was never ahead of Obama.  Never.

"Abstinence education and spreading democracy in the middle east are examples of a lack of pragmatism.
The Republican party needs to stick to free-market economics and a self-interested/goal directed foreign policy, and abandon all this religious and social authoritarianism crap."

Try promoting the free market with 50% dropout rates and 20% teen pregnancy.
democracy in the middle east IS a goal-driven, self-interested foriegn policy.  Giving Muslim dictators whatever they want didn't work for Kissinger either. Google "Yom Kippur War" and "Ayatollah Khomeini"

"By moving further right you are decreasing the size of your voter base. You are appealing to a smaller group of people."

Disproved by the last two elections.  Bush got 62 million votes, McCain got 55 million.

"If a party wishes to survive it must be inclusive to as many groups of people as possible, which is more to the center right."

Center-right "inclusiveness" means letting us "extremists" vote and volunteer and donate, but not endorsing their views or shifting policy one inch in their favor.

" You can choose to be either part of the solution or continue to be part of the problem. "

The solution is general economic malaise, foreign distrust and contempt for America, and universal acknowledgement that the Left and Center have failed.  Since you wont be TOLD not to sit on a hot stove...

"The best things for far right conservatives to do is to simply bite their tongues and be quiet while the party rebuilds so that it can have a voice once it regains some of it's political power again."

Inclusion, eh?

"If they continue bickering like this they will eventually be cast out of the party, form a new party and the democrats will have unsurpassed political control for several decades."

See the described solution above.  It took Ford and Carter to elect Reagan.  Sad but true.  I've already left, many of us have, and we won't come back til you have sense beat into you. 
You could do everything TIME wants you to do to rebuild and they'll STILL vote Democrat.

'I prefer having some diversity in the political spectrum, one house democratic, one house republican or something like that. It forces compromise and dialogue."

I don't want any of that, and it's because the Party settles for that crap instead of REFORMING GOVT OUR WAY AS PROMISED that it's in therapy

I can't tell my story it involves a client

More BS. Brennan's dreams were realized in 2005 and 2006, solid Republican majorities that governed by ignoring "extremes" and doing whatever the hell they wanted. It is because of those lies the Party got its ass handed to it.

Guess what? MOST Americans don't vote, most Americans have never called themselves "Conservative" and most have not registered Republican. It's never been higher than 33%. But conservative Republicans still get 55% of the vote.

Somehow the "pragmatists" insist the last Republican victory is no model at all. I know why. Because in 2004 the GOP said, "we're all on board, vote Republicans in and we'll govern like a well oiled machine in Congress and the White Housen we'll do what we've tried to do for twenty years". They won big on that message. And then they said "oh you thought we meant NOW? Oh haha you silly conservative".

The whole point of the greasy oily "listen to America then come up with core values" campaign is to obliterate any policy commitment by the Party. Any elected Republican can do what they like.

I said for five years, the Party could either be millions of people working for a purpose, or it could be a professional association for nonDemocrat politicians. They chose the latter. But guess what? It ain't your "leader" who tells friends and families and total strangers why Republicans are good and necessary. It aint Mitt Romney walking neighborhoods banging on doors for the GOP. It ain't McCain telling the carpool moms they can trust that Republican on TV. Those very necessary people have been used and know they were lied to and made tools of liars against their own kin. And now the message to them is "anybody who cares about the agenda is too extreme to be heard".  I'm one, I hear from others and we're pissed at being lied to, which is "not helpful" to the new GOP. Fine. Get bent.

Instead of quoting polls and demographics about how people don't agree with you YET, as an excuse to do nothing, try arguing your core values to the people. But that presumes the moderates have any. And I don't think they do. They have preferences they're "realistic" about.

Rooster I was wrong

You are evil

You should be killed

Speaks French like a Frenchman who can't speak French

Well ok you're not evil but you're smoochin with the Dark Side

Lol

It led me to Jennifer Love Hewitt pix