Take Whit Ayres , a leading Washington, D.C. political consultant with over 30 years of experience in polling and survey research for high profile political campaigns, and add Steve Hayes,a columnist for 
The Weekly Standard and the official biographer for Vice President Richard Cheney, and you are bound to have informative and LIVELY discussion about the survivability of the Republican Party.
Whit Ayres: www.politico.com/arena/bio/whit_ayres.html
Steve Hayes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Hayes