Of course, when you are talking about Richmond suburbs, you are talking about white voters. White voters are the only real swing voters in the U.S. Women have voted majority Democrats for decades and single women voted DEmocratic 2 to 1 but if you remove black women, the number is not near as large. The same goes for everything else. When you have a demographic group that votes 95% for one party, that demographic dominates over others.

What those whites in suburbs Richmond (of course they live there because the Richmond Public Schools are overwhelmingly black and are horrible) is that as the U.S. becomes less white, they will become targets for higher taxes and for social engineerings. Then they will realize that in the coming one party state, that they will have no say in how the government works.

The right lost the Hispanic vote by obsessing over the open borders issue.

What you fail to see is that the GOP is also losing in areas that were their strongholds– like the suburbs of Richmond, VA which went blue for the first time in recent memory. Many moderates are leaving the party. Women also went for Obama, as did younger voters and college educated whites .Elections can be analyzed by looking at region, education level, gender, age etc. Race is just one of many factors.

To ignore the racia makeup of both parties is to ignore politics. Blacks and Hispanics are reflexive Democarts voters who the Republicans have zero chance of winning over. Thus, conservatives have to find a way to offset that advantage and the best way is to probably try to take over the Democratic Party from the inside. That way, conservatives can take advantage of blacks and Hispanics reflexive voting for Democrats and for the elite white progressives into a white only party on the left of the current Democratic party.

I guess that begs the question… why do they have to be white?

There are not enough middle class and upper middle class whites wo are small government conservatives but socially liberal to make a political party funcitonal. Even the current groups that make up the Repulbican Party are not demographically large enough to sustain a conservative party. Forcing out the social conservatives while appealling to urban whites is just another way for the Repulbicans to commit suicide.

If people are really interested in pushing conservatives ideas, they would probably be better off in voting the Democratic primaries for the most conservative candidate. Trying to take over the Democratic Party from the inside is about the only way that conservatives can hope to offset the advantages that Democrats have with Hispanics and blacks.

- As long as the GOP leadership continues to have a litmus test for membership that's written by the religious-right, they WILL alienate a large percentage of Americans.

- As long as they continue to call anyone who disagrees with them, “un-American”, “socialists”, “terrorist sympathizers”, etc they are going to alienate a percentage of Americans.

- As long as they continue to single out groups of Americans for divisive political stunts, they are going to alienate a percentage of Americans.

Why the Libertarian party continues to follow the GOP instead of flourishing on their own is beyond me.

First, the last time I looked, the consitution does not ban discrimination on the bases of business connection. However, it does ban discrimionation onthe basis of race and ethnicity.

Second, the preferences given to black and minorities but no longer given to women is much greater than the preferences given to legacies. That is why the University of Michigan has to be forced by court order to produce the documents on how much preference was given to the children of rich, white collar black families.

There are some odd niches that also hurt small government conservatives to include college professors, pubic sector emloyees, unions, Jews, gays, that the Repulbicans have zero chance of overcoming.

Can the small government party really ever welcome All Americans into their party. As long blacks demand quotas, AA, and Set asides, is there really a place for them in conservative politics. AS long as La Raza demands open borders and unlimited immigration, is there really a place for Hispanics in Conservative politics.

The Replubicans are caught in a demographic trap. They need to appeal to minorities but lose more white voters in the process. Look at the millions of Repulblicans who stayed home last Tuesday because they believe that the Repubican Party can gone left them.

Also, it is odd that the Democrats say that politics in the art of cmpromise but continue to give the CBC exactly what it wants even though most Americans want an end to quotas, set asides, AA and most Americans want more control on the borders.

The GOP will continue to lose elections unless they can silence the evangelicals and welcome ALL Americans into their party.

Yet, ever Republicans is forced to answer for some school board in Kansas when they push creationism or some school board in Texas that wants prayer at football games.

The Republicans have to face the fact that there are over 100 Congressional Districts where they have zero chance of winning and a dollar spent there is a dollar not spent in a competative district. Of course, admitting that also means that they to have the problem that the Repulbicans support for open borders and unlimited immigration was a horrible mistake.