This is the best quote, and it sums up how I feel about the Republican party:

Comment by Roger Fleming
November 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am

I agree the Repubican Party needs to return to the Party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan and re-adopt those core values. First you need to clean house and move away from a radical form of conservatism that only separates this great nation of ours. I am referring to people like Rush Limbaugh and others who??s whole career is based on partisan politics. The other thing you need to do is start accepting responsiblity for their mistakes. Stop blaming the other guy for your failures. If you do so you will improve - grow - and move forward as a viable party that this country needs. Continue the way you have and you will fall by the sidelines becoming little more than ??McCarthism?? and other radical ??better than thou?? movements. The people gave you a mandate and eight years ago and you failed.
I think the Republcans needed a good slap to wake them up, and now they have had it. Now they can compose themselves and think about what is next. They'll have a few years in the wilderness to think about it. The Republican party has historically had a lot of good things to offer and many things that I believe in, but they had moved away from all that and embraced the outdated culture warrior bullshit. They embraced the religious right and instead of getting government off of people's backs, they started getting into the personal details of our lives and shoving their beliefs on us. They need to shed all that and go back to some core principles. I've heard that same argument from conservatives on this site many times, especially those who identify as Libertarians and the Ron Paul supporters.

This is why I think Sarah Palin's future in the party is not as bright as some people think. She represents the wing that the party needs to move AWAY from. Her divisive talk about the REAL America is a part of what killed the McCain campaign. You look at the people at an Obama event and that is where you saw the REAL America, the people who you see every day at work and at school --- culturally, ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse people of all ages, not just a bunch of older white guys, like what you saw at McCain and Palin rallies. If the Republican party is going to survive, it needs to figure out how to relate to the people who make up the country, not just some small sliver of it that live in white, rural, small towns. I know my perspective is a bit skewed because I live in California, which is more diverse than some other parts of the country. But no matter where you live, you can't ignore the fact that this country is becoming more diverse. The Republiacans need to think about whether their message of the past few years is going to work with the diverse future population of this country. I think the core values of the Republican party could appeal to anyone of any culture, but not the culture war crap that is rooted in white, Evangelical cultural values and divisive partisan politics.