So a partisan hack called the President a talking point... oh whoop-dee-friggen-doo my world is unchanged aside from a few wasted minutes skimming this thread.
I will admit that the apparent Republican tactic of trying to negatively alienate anyone who disagrees with them is getting old. Very old. Not that the Democrats are blameless, but the Republicans seem to be determined to build a platform on sheer negativity, which is always doomed to fail. It failed for Kerry/Edwards, it'll fail for Romney if he takes that route. Look at the growing irrelevance of the Tea Party for starters.
Methinks Republicans have become too cohesive. They've immersed themselves so much in their own party many of them are growing ignorant of the outside world. But then again most rural, isolated areas are Republican, so I guess that reflects a good chunk of their constituents.
Bottom line: There's a problem when the stereotype of your party is an uneducated Mississippi redneck wearing a colonial hat with tea bags hanging off it. There's an even bigger problem when the main party establishment promotes this stereotype. Meanwhile your opponents at least have "educated" in their stereotype and last I checked aren't promoting the stupid hippie image.
The GOP must change, or the Democrats must do something extraordinarily bad. Otherwise the GOP will split and partially implode on its own negativity. Having the base support of the party is nice, but you don't win elections without the moderate mainstream.