Andrew Sullivan on the state of denial in today's GOP

Until the GOP accepts its cultural and intellectual dead-end, it will not endure for long as a national party. They've lost three generations of voters - those who came of age under Clinton (and liked him), those who came of age under Bush-Cheney and are still nauseated by the memory, and those who have come of age in the Obama era. I propose two places to start: a commitment to developing conservative ideas for environmental protection and a volte-face on gays. That was one way the Tories climbed back to electability in Britain. But David Cameron didn't have a fundamentalist religious movement and a far right media-industrial complex to overcome. And it took the Tories three consecutive losses to get real.

--Andrew Sullivan