No they won’t. Even the wacko leftists aren’t enough to make most democrats vote republican.

The GOP will continue to damage its standing by standing for nothing- except opposing Democrats– leaving lots of people with no perceived choice.

One of the biggest issues in the GOP? The death tax starting at an amount that few poor people can relate to. A millionaire’s tax that captures the imagination only of rich people. Poor and middle class people hear this and it cements their view that the GOP is rich person’s party.

Immigration enforcement? The GOP has been a no show on constructive action for decades. Its trying to ride the issue but it has no comitment to it as we all know. It did almost zero to control the border.

Pension reform? The GOP is a latecomer here too. Its actually snuggled up the the trough with all the other officeholders: find me the GOP pension reformer a few years ago.

Abortion? 70 percent or more of people in California want the uneasy truce imposed by the Supreme Court left alone. The GOP choses religious zealots over what most people find acceptable.

Gay marriage? The GOP will continue to oppsoe it, even though most younger republicans couldn’t care less: in the process, the GOP seeks to impose the personal religious views of its members or personal dislike of gay marriage on the voters.

Schools? The GOP has virtually conceded the issue of education to the democrats: No Child Left Behind was a poor substitute for vouchers, for teacher tenure reform etc. The GOP has avoided the scut work needed for real educational reform.

The GOP has lost its reason for existence, other than sipping drinks, whining about Obama and not being democrats. That’s a pretty poor basis for voting for anyone, although it will proably win this year.

But its not enough. The GOP is losing because it stands for almost nothing. Even its fiscal reputation is in tatters. Even if the GOP captures Congress, it’ll only take them a year or two to become the cozy politicians paying no attention to the country and like 2006, they’ll be back to being a minority party.

They COULD stand up: For pension reform. Vouchers. Teacher tenure reform. Immigration reform and enforcement. Oppose pork. But that is ahrd work. So they’ll just be out there with a wet finger in the wind.