PoliticsUSA: Political Parties: Republican party structures in crisis — why?

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Notes from a Byzantine Rite Calvinist (December 2m 2k11)
by Prof. David Koyzis, Political Science, Redeemer University College
— Reposted here by Politicarp
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US party reform needed

David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush, wonders aloud: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? The German weekly Der Spiegel carries this article in its English-language edition: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses. Even if this is rhetorical overkill, the Republican Party's range of would-be presidential nominees is rather less than impressive. Those who were sceptical of Obama's deliberate cultivation of messianic expectations in 2008 hoped he would face a credible opponent in 2012. But thus far the GOP has yet to deliver and shows no signs of doing so any time soon.

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