of the reason’s the GOP is in political jeopardy (although it should be criminal jeopardy) from a post from the daily KOS.
social moralizing, beyond-the-pale cronyism, an unhealthy dose of nativism and racism, corruption so blatant it has become institutionalized, a borrow-and-spend budgetary philosophy, and redistribution of wealth to the very rich that has appalled all but the Christianist right and some very wealthy allies
Here is the KOS entry as well as the Economist article they were discussing.