The full blown demise of the Republican Party is doing nothing for the betterment of the country. That’s right, you heard it here. The ongoing collapse of the GOP highlights the flaws of a two party system. From a liberal perspective, Obama’s programs have a lot of merit but the absence of viable debate is not good. There are no leaders in the House, the Senate or among those who would be candidates for President in 2012 from the Republican Party who carry any political weight and none of them certainly can’t stand up to Obama. Those who oppose Obama’s agenda are hoping either his own party bogs him down or his policies fail on their own merit. It will not be the Republicans who bring Barack Obama down.

Many believed the bottom for the GOP had been reached with the 2008 election, but events within the party continued to spiral. It wasn’t just your average tawdry tales that has rocked the party. Rather it was decisions made by men within the party who chose to build up their credentials with fonts of morality only to fall way short of their own convictions. Ensign, Sanford and now possibly Palin have caused raised eyebrows from the party’s staunchest allies. (If it isn’t an impending scandal that has caused Palin to step down as Governor, the speech she gave today should be cause enough to end a political career.)

So the question is, who will emerge from the Republican Party to be a worthy adversary of Barack Obama? When some have staked their claim to Limbaugh to be the voice of the party, when the National Chairman is Michael Steele and there is no politician that contends to have any comprehensive answers to the problems that face this country from the conservative side, it is clear the GOP has some serious soul searching and a lot of ground to make up.