by Greg Dunn

Created on: June 09, 2009   Last Updated: June 12, 2009

Currently, the Republican Party is a faceless party in disarray. It will remains as such for the foreseeable future. It will continue to spiral down until the 2012 elections, when the Republican nominee Mitt Romney is defeated in a landslide in the reelection of President Obama. Romney will not have the charisma and political backing to overcome Obama's incumbency, intelligence and appeal. In addition to Obama's strengths, Romney will not be able to unify the party because you will still have conservative radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, whose rhetoric does not allow compromise or unity to occur.

It will take at least one more election cycle to have the American voter to forget the Bush Legacy and have the tide begin to flow back toward the Republican's point of view. A Republican Face will appear around 2014, while both parties are gearing up for the 2016 presidential elections. A relative unknown will burst upon the conservative scene with a fresh appeal to energize and to unite the Grand Old Party. This is what Bill Clinton did in 1990 and Barrack Obama did in 2006. Both came out of nowhere to win the Democratic Nomination and the Presidency.

This country is really a middle of the road nation. The two party system naturally shifts from one spectrum to the other in cycles. Right now, it is shifting to the left. This is because the citizenry has been dissatisfied with the way the country has been ran under a conservative leadership the last eight years. If you look at the history of the United States, you will see this shifting occurring every couple or so generations.

For the future leader of the Republican Party to surface, they will need to get back to their principles of smaller government and conservative spending. There will have to be some compromise on social issues. When polling the under 30 voter, the future majority in coming elections, gay rights, global warming, a women's right to choose, universal health care, all rank high amongst the group. There is a strong chance that what is considered to be a liberal point of view today, can be the norm five years from now. A case in point was the once conservative subject of integration of the 1950s, which has become almost a non-subject by the 1980's.

For me to name someone who is going to be a face of the future of the Republican Party right now, would be a fallacy because that single face is not known. The Party right now has many different faces going in many different directions. There is a huge fight of trying to keep the "old way" and not wanting change. For this to happen, one more good beating at the polls, will serve as a wake up and the ones against change will be forced out or at least have their voice minimized. It the party does not change it will die by the end of the next decade.

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