Who/what did the most damage to the GOP brand name?

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If I had to pin it on one thing, I pick the media. Fox drove them away from reality, allowing the crap to rise to the top and stink up the party image.

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-Newt
-George Bush
-Akins, O'Donnells, Angles, Mourdocks
-The outdated social platforms
-The media itself
-The top 1% label

All of these except The Media. The Media supports Republicans.

The Media follows a nonbias fallacy that plays to Republican benefits. But look at it from a different lens.

"The Media hurt Republicans". That could mean the right-wing media bubble driving them into the realm of the crazy, or the rise of MSNBC, or both.

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Here we go:

1. Social issues, at least too much emphasis on them
2. The Tea Party movement
3. The ideology hacks ("RINOs vs. real conservatives")
4. The simple fact that Democrats are almost always more popular, even when the GOP is at its zenith

The RINO thing is one of the worst. I can understand a dislike of Republicans who are as liberal as the average Democrat (i.e. John Lindsay or Jacob Javits), but regular Republicans who differ on a few social issues? Virtually all 30's-50's Republicans would have been labelled "RINO" by these same social conservative nuts had they been around then, except for maybe McCarthy and a few others. Hell, they consider Nixon to be a RINO now!

They dont even like Ike