The party of NO ideas….it fails to EVOLVE.

The GOP used to label itself as the party of ideas.  It had solutions to complicated problems so it claimed.  Now we know that the GOP only has two approaches to any problem. First is to cut taxes for rich folks and the second is deregulation. .  Maybe this approach was beneficial in the 1980s, but it is an impractical blueprint for future leadership.

Then - Fareed Zakaria November 2008 

Conservatives have dominated Western politics for the last three decades because they proposed solutions to the problems of the 1970s -- slow growth, social unrest, and Soviet adventurism. But those solutions don't work anymore. 

They don't address the problems of today -- an out-of-control financial system, rising inequality, unaffordable health care, poor infrastructure, a broken energy policy

Now - David Frum June 2012

"Here are two of the smartest men on the economic right, one [Phil Gramm] a former chairman of the Senate banking committee, the other [Glenn Hubbard] a former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Yet they insist on treating today's economic crisis as a repeat of 1979-81—and Europe's agony as a debt crisis (which it isn't), not a currency crisis (which it is). Why? Well you will consider only one policy solution—cut taxes and regulations—then you must insist that there can be only one policy problem. 

Yet in almost every way, today's economic problems are exactly the opposite of those of 30 years ago. Then we had inflation, today we are struggling against deflation. Then we had weak corporate profits, today corporations are more profitable than ever. Then we had slow productivity growth, today it is high. Then the to-individual income-tax rate was 70%. Today it is 36%. Then energy regulations produced energy shortages. Today the removal of banking regulations has produced an abundance of debt," 

 It think the real problem is that the GOP has failed to evolve and adapt to its environment.  Under Darwinian conditions, the answer to this problem would be extinction. Actually this is the preferred solution to the problem. The GOP would just go away and a more fit party(s) would rise in its place.

Unfortunately, much like failing communist regimes were able to survival well beyond their expiration date by sucking out the resources of their people and nations, today's GOP continues to survive past its expiration date due to the patronage of rightwing billionaires and the creation of alternative media such as the Foxnews.  In this regard, instead of adapting to the environment, Today's GOP occupies an artificial counter culture of its creation build on a unstable foundation of party doctrine and bullshit ideology.

This example shows us that political parties do no always evolve in Darwinian terms, but sometime regress to more primitive means of social organization.  Evolution, in this sense, does not imply progress. It can be the opposite of progress. The GOP is case in point.

Furthermore with all these Darwinian comparisons to the GOP it seems to me more than a coincidence that Rep Paul Ryan is now advocating a return to social darwinism of the 1880s with his Ryan Road Map to privatize Medicare and gut Medicaid in order to pay for even more tax cuts for rich folks.  It is as if the GOP is regressing at light speed.  I hope we will not need a meteor to save us from this party.