Does the GOP need to shed itself of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity?

Hahahaha - I see one of the other posters has credited Former Governor Palin with some attributes she clearly lacks. The problem with Gov. Palin's candidacy is that she is unelectable. Nobody concerned about our national competitiveness , education standards, alternative energy development or any other of a variety of complex issues is going to support her. So she'll win some percentage of the evangelical, big oil vote, but I suspect that the glory days of the GOP where they could hitch any candidate up to the evangelical bandwagon without considering anything else, are past us.

We spent 8 years enduring that, and much to their credit - the evangelical community itself slowly realized that the Republicans were largely playing the tune they wanted to hear but then abandoned them after the elections were over. While such naked Machiavellian ambitions are rarely seen in politics quite so obviously , I'm thinking what the GOP REALLY needs versus what it's promoting for itself are two totally different things.

So the Arbitron ratings for Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity - could be right - or it could be that they aren't and you just have some distorted sense of where the people's viewpoints are.

The presumption is that the John Birch society should have a seat at the GOP table, that the GOP has successfully courted these seditious fringe radicals, but here's a question.

How many people listen to Rush or Glenn Beck just to hear what kind of unhinged rhetoric will come out of their mouths. It's painful to see that Mr. Beck even knows he's a baffoon but like Imus or Howard Stern , eventually ratings give way and the ranting just get's tired.

In a way I'm happy to see some semblance of the less radical GOP at least notice that the party has been hijacked, - that in and of itself is refreshing , but that it's 10 years (at the least) too late - is the problem, and where were there enlightened viewpoints 20 years ago when trash-talk demagoguery and PAC influence took down GW Bush (1).

McCain's advisor needs to get with reality. The GOP needs to shed short armed McCain. He is a backstabber and a user and swings from both sides. He bounces from one side of the aisle to the other. Look what he did to Palin.

No, Democrats need to shed themselves of the mentioned people. Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity are enemies of the LEFT, not the right.

The Republican party needs to shed those who are trying to be bigger liberals than Democrats. John McCain and other RINOs do much more harm to the Republicans than any of those folks.

The GOP desperately needs these people to keep their reputation of embracing a rigid, hard-nosed, right-wing ideology.

Sadly, they have become just another party of exclusion.

They are headed down the same path as every minor fringe party.

They are not the Republican Party that I joined and supported.

I think so. Hannity, Limbaugh and Beck ultimately do the party much more harm than good. I think some of the more pragmatic leaders of the GOP realize that they've created a monster.

For a talk show host, to have 10 million adoring fans who believe everything you say and repeat it over and over, at the cost of having 30 or 50 million people who hate your guts, that means success. Controversy helps these people. Limbaugh used to brag that he was 'the most dangerous man in the world' only because so many people hated him. He has built a huge career on being hated!

But for a political party, that is -death-. Elections aren't won by how passionate your fans are if your fans are in the minority. This is just one reason Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity/O'Reilly/Coulter don't actually run for office. 8^)

Clearer heads in the party leadership hired a new chairman to try to begin to repair the damage done to the party's image by GW Bush. He tried to characterize Limbaugh as 'just an entertainer'--a label Limbaugh has often applied to himself, BTW--and Limbaugh was powerful enough to get him to apologize.

So now the right-wing bigmouthss are destroying the party for their own careers, they are leading the party off a cliff!

Palin, OTOH, her biggest draw is that she is Bush in a skirt. Substituting 'gut decisions' for knowledge, self-confidence for actual ability. At this point she is the GOP's leading candidate for 2012. And I think that shows you just how much trouble the party is in.

The GOP needs to stop taking advice from liberals and talking heads in the news media and be what America wants: fiscally, socially Conservative strict constructionist!

They are still on your mind? Good. Should the Democrats shed themselves of the propeller-heads, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, and all the czars that are so liberal and left that they think Clinton is a conservative. Too funny.

Nope... the GOP needs to shed itself of liberals like McCain and his flunkies. It was McCain's fault that the republicans lost the election, along with the willing media becoming Obamabots, instead of questioning.

BEck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and so many more are trying to shed light on these cockroaches, but you guys continue to follow blindly like sheeple.

And we should all report to the liberal re-education camps so that we, too, can be blind followers of the One. There is no need to hear blasphemy contrary to the preachings of the holy liberals. Help me please. I need to shed this lack of faith and to regain my trust in the all seeing, all reporting mass media.

Palin and Beck have the #1 Books right now. Beck is on fire, he's gotten Van Jones fired AND he's helped take down ACORN. Limbaugh tells it like it is and Hannity does the same. Why would we give them up??? If you're feeling like leaving the party then just go. Judas.