Do You Think Speaker Ryan's Speech at the RNC Convention will unite the GOP?

How about 6: I hope not.

I used to be a Republican ands pushed out of what was once a fiscally right-of-center and socially moderate party by the arrival of the religious right. That was in 1992, and since then the white supremacists, the no-tax loonies and the screw-the-poor fringes have been let out of the crazy tent and further torn-apart the party.

I really think that everything we see today with a bombastic racist buffoon as the nominee and senate and house majorities that would rather shut down the government than engage in principled compromise with the other side has made the party fully dysfunctional.

Our system, our government and yes, our country works best when one of our parties is not fully off the deep-end, so I really hope 2016 does what the 2012 Autopsy report was supposed to do, which is give such a shock that the party wakes up, returns from the extremist fringes of recent elections back to the near center of Reagan, Bush 41, Nixon and Ford.

The sooner they take the party out of the church and bring it back to the boardroom the better. All of this social-conservative religious bullshit will keep them out of the White House. Women won't stand for a party trying to restrict their reproductive rights. LGBT community won't stand for a party trying to strip of their right to not be discriminated against, and Hispanics, the FASTEST GROWING VOTING BLOCK, won't stand for a party that wants to deport mom, dad, grandma and grandpa.

The 2012 Autopsy report said all of this. It recommended moderating positions on abortion, gay rights, immigration and so on, but the hyper-partisans doubled down on the anti-immigrant rhetoric and Christianizing of the party. They should have listened to their own report in 2012, but instead they have damaged their party far more, and hopefully they will listen to the more scathing autopsy report that is certain to come from 2016.

3. Maybe?? But not being a Republican I have really not been following their campaign all that much since the Red Sox are doing much better this year.

No, The Republican party has failed, they have not represented the people in years. The only thing they do is work to stay in power and make back door deals, they are no better than the Democratic party. The corruption in DC has turned our political system into the worlds largest open sewage plant. The turds keep floating by, while telling us they are here for us, we need to do a massive courtesy flush soon before it overflows. The puppet masters are laughing at us while we still cling to the illusion that we have a choice.