I not only think that the GOP will survive but it will flourish in the coming years. The conditions are ripe for this. Historically the societies that have relied on religious mythology are those that are undereducated and at the poverty level but the U.S. has been expanding that class for the past two or three decades. In reality there exists little difference between the Dems and Reps and any difference you percieve is by design. The nation is so divided between the two that an underlying hatred for each other has come to exists and that type of division works for the politicians. The last thing the Dems or Reps want is a nation of people united on either side. In times of scandal the repercussions would be devestating for the party in power. As long as the nation is deeply divided those repercussions can be managed. A united nation requires that nation to be informed and knowledgable not just about internal affairs but but have an understanding of the world as a whole. With the dumbing down of America we have created a population that is motivated and steered by ignorance and politicians now wouldn't have it any other way. It's this national ignorance that sets the stage for religous mythology to become the politics of the nation and will become the platform for Dems as well as Reps. In the future both parties will be using "God" as their guiding light and the nation will follow simply because they won't have an intellegent argument for doing otherwise and the nation's deviding line will be established by the two parties different views of what "God" wants. And that division will even more heated than what it is today. Religous mythology has always been the most effective way to keep a population under control so both parties will be strengthened by this. With a population deeply entrenched in mythology, the Republican party will be needed by that population like never before.