Dixie-publicans

Looks like many Republicans I know will soon be heading for the sunny climes of Mississippi, Alabama, and the Carolinas. The congressional race in the 23rd District in New York state has turned into a Republican civil war, with wingnuts on one side and the establishment GOP on the other. The incumbent is taking heat from a hardcore candidate who is gathering endorsements from all the likely sources. Michelle Malkin calls the incumbent, who is considered on the conservative side of New York Republicans, a "radical leftist" because she supports abortion rights and marriage equality (time and again, the social agenda trumps the economic self-interests of the wingnuts).

As I have predicted in the past, numerous times, the Republican Party is heading for a deep schism, much like the Episcopalians did, over social and moral issues. What will be left, in the Northeast and West, is a collection of social moderates and fiscal conservatives who look, think, and act more like Democrats in their tolerance of diversity in their ranks; and in the South and the midwest, a Christianist* army of line-toeing theocrats who base their whole raison d'etre on guns, God, and gays. A more complete marginalization I cannot imagine happening. And what a mess it will create for the country.