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Right now the republican party is fractured. They just got their asses handed to them in back to back elections and now the party is basically sitting in two different camps. There are some republicans who want to take the party further to the right. They want to full on wage the culture war and they want to go after the hard religious right to regain their base. These are the limbaugh/palin republicans. There is also some that want to drop some of the social stuff and focus on getting back to what the republican party used to me about which is spending less money, smaller government and more state/local government freedom. They are still pro-life and still have some of the social beliefs, but they don't want to hit people over the head with them. These are the Romney/Guliani republicans and there are still others that are starting to pull in a more libertarian way and look to people like Ron Paul as guide.
It is no different than what the democrats went through after the republicans took power. The democrats, however, never really found a voice until recently and that voice was basically, "we aren't them." They pointed the finger at the republicans and claimed they could do a better job and since things were fucked up it worked.
So the republican party either has to find a common ground or they have to wait until Obama and the democrats fuck up and lose their popularity. Either way they aren't going to be an effective party for a while to come.
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