From the land of 10,00 lakes, 5,000 fish and 20,000 fish stories, here’s another fish story.

  

NEW YORK (CNN) -- This week the Republicans gather for their convention. For four days, they will labor under the illusion their party is still relevant. It's not. 

   

It is entirely fitting that the headliner for this masquerade is a feeble looking 72-year-old white guy who doesn't know how many homes he owns.    

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It's more than symbolic that when a million Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure, the Republican candidate for president has lost track of his holdings.   

   

McCain surrounds himself with people like former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm who called America a "nation of whiners" and said we are only suffering a "mental recession."  

   

That's the same problem the Republican Party has. It has lost track of what it used to stand for: small government, a disciplined fiscal policy, integrity.   

  

In a way, the perfect storm of a rapidly changing population -- old white people aren't going to be in the majority very much longer (and isn't that who most of the Republicans are?) -- has combined with the total abdication of principles, Republican or otherwise, of arguably the worst president in the nation's history to mark the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

     

Republican Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia said it best: "The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."

  

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Right on as usual Jack.   

  

I was a registered Republickin longer than I have been a registered Dimocrat.  In my opinion the GOP has been sabatoged by the Newt Gingrinchs, Cheney’s and Roves of the party (he was a dimocrat before he was a Republickin – as was Ronnie).  These people have sabotaged the GOP, unwittingly or otherwise.   

 

Bush is simply a symptom, never was anything else.  A hood ornament.  But he is a testament to just how bankrupt the GOP has become since the days of Ike.  It's a lamentable deterioration that truly beggars the imagination!      

  

Too bad, so sad.  But everthing in our plane of existence has a birth-growth-maturity-decline-death cycle.  The Wigs became the Republicans, and now it is time for the Republicans (as currenty corrupted) to fade into the history books as something else takes up the baton for what it used to stand for: small government, a disciplined fiscal policy, integrity. 

     

Right on as usual Jack.