Well, I suppose this report is a step in the right direction. Everybody recognizes that the GOP needs its own DLC. I suppose the big difference is though that the GOP has a base that is strong enough to fight moderating efforts while the Dems were demoralized and on the verge of extinction throughout the entire nation in the 1980s, making a shift to the center far easier to sell/push through.
Republicans can deny that they are in trouble all that they want, but that isn't going to stop them from losing. They will probably gain a Senate seat on the net and might lose little in 2014 in the House. But when things go bad for them things will go very bad very fast. They are not finding new constituencies, and the ones that they have are at best not losing in numbers. They have the moneyed elites. Protestant fundamentalists are shrinking in numbers due to age.
America is becoming less white, Anglo, Christian, and straight every year, and the GOP is losing just about every identifiable group that isn't white, Anglo, Christian, and straight even as such people join the middle class and start paying higher taxes than they used to. Democrats have the majority of schoolteachers, people who can influence youth. Young adults are going strongly Democratic, and they are setting their tendencies. It won't be long before the youth born in the 1980s start making high office, and they are already predominately Democratic. They have been learning from one of the most masterful strategists of politics that America has ever had. They associate the Republican Party heavily with one of the worst Presidents in history.
