Scott Walker and Mike Pence are the kind of conservatives who can win.
You need to have Reagan’s character, optimism, ability to connect with Americans and a brand of conservatism that makes a difference in people’s lives.
The GOP is still the majority party in the country but it keeps being hobbled by the lousy presidential candidates it keeps on nominating. The GOP needs to revisit a nominating process that allows the next primary loser to win the GOP nomination by default.
And the GOP needs to find a way to compete on the new political terrain in this country or its faces extinction! This is not exactly rocket science. We were forewarned of this four years ago but the party did nothing to change and prepare for the future. Conservatism has remained stuck in the past. Reagan is history! If we’re not willing to build a new coalition, we will never again see a Republican President in our lifetime.
I read with amazement the comments here for days saying that Romney was winning because of high turnout at his recent events, or the ones here from fellow Marylanders (a very Dem state) citing high voter turnout at the polls, meaning they must be Republicans voting, when they were Dems. I even got a few mad at me for challenging this last point.
As I said, you cant win a race when you throw away your compass and run the wrong way. Not only did Rs focus mainly of shoring up the white baby-boomer vote but Romney had the problem that to win the primary he had to play act someone else and then in the general try to avoid many of those things he never believed in.
And he really looked like an out of touch white male rich elitist, perfect for O to use, remember Newt called him out on it before O did.
In the shorter term is there any reason why Boehner should make things easy for O now ?
O won big now (at least it looks that way to the bread and circus crowd) and shouldnt Boehner talk like O is charge of the congress so if all the taxes go up and the spending cuts go into effect O can get all the credit/blame, and those who voted for him won't look too smart?
Helping O by delaying the tax increases and spending cuts didnt too work, well it worked great for O.
I am seriously considering this.