It depends what you mean by Republican. Most of the good ones are gone, they left, or have been abandoned by their own party. It's kinda sad when Newt Gingrich is the remaining voice of reason. I think they're kinda like that dinosaur that was always running full speed and crashing it's skull into another one of it's kind. You think it would killed em off, but they had such hard skulls and such tiny brains that they were fine. What kind of dinosaur was that again? It's on the tip of my tongue and killing me! Anyway, if the current trend of extreme conservatism (mainly social, or entirely anti-government) that has had a resurgence because of Obama continues to run against Republicans for seats, well, they look like they'll win them. And short term, since they may be running as independents (who will side Republican) or running the current Republicans out in primaries the Republican party may look stronger in the short term, but it isn't spelling the demise of the part so much as it becoming a permanent extremist group. If the current trend continues, a new group will need to form to hold the used to be Republicans. The ones for smaller government, not nonsensical, or no government. The Republican party, has for a long time been shedding it's members and ideals, and those members and ideals have been picked up by other parties. They've held the banners the Republican party has dropped. But the party has dropped so many so recently--members and ideas that haven't found a place elsewhere that they'll either disperse and one or more of the current smaller parties will become much stronger, or they'll form a new party. Attempting to hold together conservatives of so many types across such a large spectrum wasn't going to work for long anyway. It was a never a great plan to begin with.

Good one. One can only hope. They are too busy endangering themselves to notice.

Fraid not. The ones who hold true to the Conservative values they espouse are systematically marginalised by the fifth columnist "hate at all costs: Neo-cons."

No - they will re-invent themselves someday.

Republicans maybe but conservatives no, they are making a come back just watch the elections on 11/3/09

No, nor should they ever be. People who want to silence voices because they disagree with them are just as bad as the ones they claim to hate.

That seems to be the question nowadays doesn't it, i wouldn't count them out yet, fox news has converted quite a few people that are clueless due to this healthcare reform.