Former RNC Boss: GOP Risks ‘Permanent Minority’

National Review Online ^ | January 30, 2013 | Robert Costa

[old school]

“I don’t think the party dies immediately,” Gilmore says. “It’s not going to just disappear like the Whigs did, since there is so much law that supports the two-party system. But Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.”

[Paladin2]

"Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.”"

No disagreement. Embracing emotional thinkers is going to take some planning and strong efforts to develop the proper "stories".

[Uncle Miltie]

Loudly proclaiming Conservative ideas hasn’t been tried in a generation.

That would save Republicans from becoming an irrelevant “Revenuer for the Democrats” party.

[traditional1]

The Socialist Workers' Party (Democrats), now have control of the majority of the Public (parasitic/welfare tribes, and Union-enslaved workers, plus the Self-Dealing Unions in the Public Sector government workforce). Controlling how OTHERS' tax dollars are taken to fund their propoganda machine (the State-Run-Media), and indoctrinating the Yewts with their self-serving Unionized Teachers, there's no hope on the horizon for out-voting those dependants.

ONLY a war will change the circumstance, OR, when the money-supply-earners can't keep up with the handouts, and the grumbling of the parasitic-classes changes the vote.

[Paladin2]

"Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.”"

No disagreement. Embracing emotional thinkers is going to take some planning and strong efforts to develop the proper "stories".

[Tau Food]

Surrender is worse than being a permanent minority.

[qam1]

Another idiot who hasn’t a clue.

It’s not hard for the Republicans

1) Fight Back
2) Stop running RINOs
3) Rinse and Repeat

[LongWayHome]

Lol, that boat sailed years ago. You allow over 40 million LEGAl third world immigrants to pour into the USA since the 1965 Immigration Act was passed & this is the logical outcome. Any political party with a survival instinct (like the rancid democratic party) would have shut down this immigrtion flow, but not the GOP. The GOP were afraid of being called names....so they lost the nation over it.

[camle]

yeah. running as ‘democrat-lite’ hasn’t been working too well, has it. neither has been following the media’s advice, or appealing to the elites.

maybe, oh i dunno. Giving the people an alterative to the democrats???? can we at least try it? if you need ideas, ask Sarah Palin and the Tea Party

[FlingWingFlyer]

The way I see it, the GOP already is the minority wing of the DemocRAT Party.

[apillar]

I remember reading these same articles about the democrats back around 2005 when Republican had controlled congress for over ten years and held the presidency as well. These things go in cycles, eventually the democrats will do something to piss enough people off like they did in the early 1990’s and they will be gone as well. I'm not trying to sound overly optimistic but we are in a far better place today than we were in 2009 or the early years of the Clinton administration when Democrats controlled everything by substantial margins.

[rightwingextremist1776]

AGREED!

[Zhang Fei]

Results of the 2008 VA senatorial election:

In the November election, Gilmore was defeated, winning only 34 percent of the vote to Warner's 65 percent.

Yes, it was a wave election, but that was incredibly pathetic. George Allen only lost by 6% in 2012.

[cdcdawg]

“... Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.”

That’s very true, as far as it goes. The Stupid Party “rethinking” it’s approach doesn’t give me a lot of hope. I foresee amnesty, and more middle-aged, white guys trying to act hip. I’m nauseous just thinking about it.

[TADSLOS]

“Shrillness and extreme language are driving away the voters who could help us build a majority. We’re not speaking to them as reasonable conservatives. Republicans have to decide if they want to govern or play ideological parlor games.”

More tone deafness and empty chatter from the republican political class. A "reasonable conservative" is the very definition of a permanent minority.

[DJ MacWoW]

“It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)” Ronald Reagan

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[Phlap]

This just in. The Republicans hold the MAJORITY in the House. The chances they lose it in the next election? Nonexistent.

[LongWayHome]

Don’t agree. The left has imported a NEW people & will give some kind of amnesty to 20 million more soon. The old political calculus is OVER. We also lost control of our medical freedom, forever ! We have Obamacare. We no long longer have free market medicine.

[The Cajun]

3) Rinse and Repeat

The way things are, you should have added Rinse and Repeat about 10 more times.

[fattigermaster]

Our national choices before us now are Nazi, Vichy, or Resistance.