To help the GOP "rebrand" and start anew, Kos designed the "Goposaur":

It's looking back, to the past, refusing to evolve with the times as it longingly dreams of the days when only good, white, god-fearing dinosaurs roamed the earth and those multi-hued and highly evolved mammals weren't taking over the place and turning it into a socialist same-sex utopia with reeducation camps and 100% taxes. It's also ready to "go Galt", which apparently is a euphemism for quitting work and starving to death, thus negating the need for the giant asteroid. Their brains are the size of peanuts, after all.

Great work! But Dinosaurs are facts, which is far more than can be said about Republican "ideas." So here's my Republican "rebranding" - let's call it the Raelian Party:

Raëlians believe that Vorilhon, who is known by the movement as Raël, received special knowledge and instruction for mankind from the creators of life on Earth, human-like extraterrestrials called Elohim whose technology enabled them to appear as "angels" or "gods" in the eyes of ancient people.

And the swastika at the heart of their logo is the heart of their ideology.

Update 1: Since 2004, Republican self-identification has plunged from 30% to 23%. Clearly a growing number of Republicans aren't willing to become Raelians.

This graph details the shift since August 2008. The biggest shift began around March 1, when roughly 20% of Republicans became Independents. That was when all but three Republicans voted for Depression by voting against the Recovery Bill. (Arlen Specter was one of the three, along with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.)

Update 2: Howie Klein nails it as always:

The problem the Republicans have is that when they try enlarging the teeny weeny pup tent into something resembling a national party, they wake up to the shrieking and wailing of the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks and Ann Coulters, the Hannitys and O'Reillys and all the kooks and loons who have become the voice of modern Republicanism to the unwashed masses-- the base.

Update 3: David Neiwert has a similar thought:

Monitoring Fox News can take a terrible toll on one's mind. One of the coping mechanisms I've developed is just to think of these as reconnaissance missions to Planet Wingnuttia, which is an entirely different planet in an entirely different dimension than ours.

Fox is just relaying transmissions from this planet, and people who watch it believing they're seeing news from here on dear ole Planet Earth get terribly confused, even deluded. So it's important to monitor these transmissions and help keep the confusion down.