Question to the Republican Party Leadership: Where do you see yourselves 15 years from now?

How do you expect to win elections in the medium to long-term future?

I mean, if the demographics are accurate, and the nation is becoming more Hispanic and more atheist, and gays and feminism is more and more acceptable, who is their target demographic? Can they really win by ignoring or even disparaging blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays, young people, seculars?

Because you just got your clock cleaned in 2006 and 2008 because of this.

And stop with blabbering about how this is a center-right nation. No one legitimately believes this.

The conservatives I've talked to who have actually attempted to answer the question basically either denied the demographics (which are especially strong), or pooh-poohed the list of minorities as "special interests". But who are they going to ply for votes, angry white Christian straight males?

If you all truly think Sarah Palin is the future of your party, you are in for a rude shock in 2010 and 2012. Look at the demographics of the people who came to her rallies. 75% male. 90% Christian. 90% at least white. You're rallying an increasingly small base, not appealing to a majority of Americans.

The far right's entire world view is coming undone. Not only their political philosophy, but their entire way of life is becoming extinct. Less government? No one cares. Universal health care? Inevitable. Fundamentalism? Derided. They know that the "values" they love (marriage between a man and a woman, abstinence, states rights, pro-life, pushing their religion on others, intelligent design, anti-stem cells, drugs are evil, gambling is evil, continuing to drive monster SUVs and pickup trucks, etc) are on the way out. Either a majority of the population disagrees with them already or the economics or demographics sometime in the next decade will simply overwhelm them.

Take their opposition to global warming initiatives. Sooner or later, a majority of people are going to have had enough and aren't going to tolerate the silliness any longer. Sooner or later, oil prices will go high enough that the most rabid Republican won't be able to drive his monster HUMMVEE any longer.

After Katrina, after the housing crisis, after the bailouts and the acceptance of socialism - yes, socialism - by the Bush administration as a way to prop up the banks, the idea of rugged individualism is pretty much gone into the dustbin of history as well.

So, are they in denial or what?

They can only hope Obama takes a fall at this point.