by Alexander Massa

Created on: May 26, 2010

Much like the Soviet Union, the Grand Old Party will never truly die. Rather, it will merely be transformed into something else. Over the past few years, the Republican Party has drifted towards the center and the center-left of the political spectrum, and what we are witnessing now is not the death of the Republican Party, but the pull of the Tea Party and others, pulling the GOP back to the right side of the spectrum.

Because of this, the liberal Republicans of the past few years will die away, and they will be replaced by new conservatives and libertarians; similar to those people who rode into office as part of the 1994 Republican Revolution. From an outside perspective, this may look like the Party is imploding or is about to split up or collapse, but the opposite is true.

We are witnessing a purging of liberal and centrist elements from the GOP and a return to true conservatism and conservative leadership, which over the past few years has been sorely lacking.

And when this purge is over, we will see a renewed sense of unity and purpose within the GOP; those are the qualities of a party that can and will win elections. The Republicans took a beating in '06 and '08, but they seem to be prepared to take back many, if not all of their lost seats, this November.

If the Republican Party does somehow die in the coming months, it would truly be fascinating, as our two party system has survived from the early 1800s. Our whole political system would be altered, and unless a party moved in to fill the void left by the Republican Party, we would be living in a one party state run by the Democrat Party, which none of us want.

Simply because of this, the GOP cannot die. The stakes are too high, and those in the upper echelons of the party know this.

The Party may suffer setbacks, but it does not die. Just as the Democrat Party didn't die throughout the 1980s, when in the 1984 election they won a whopping one state. Parties go through cycles of popularity in power, but rarely, if ever, completely die out. Questions such as this are often very short sighted.

Who knows, perhaps in twenty years people will be asking the same question of the Democrats, and then, in turn, twenty years later they will be asking this same question again. Much like all things, party politics is cyclic.

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