Gideon would disagree.
Oh boy.
Why is a Bush in the middle of all boneheaded GOP thinking?
Baloney.
Paul would never get my vote.
Democrats occupy the WHite House and the real power of executive by including every group they can gather. Gays, immigrants, minorities, are all welcome.
Republicans will lose again in 2016 if they keep excluding every group who does not fit their strict criteria.
Result? More executive orders shoved down our throats, more Supreme court appointments lasting 30 years, more harm to military and Israel, more late term abortions, more control of healthcare and our lives and of course higher taxes.
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Paul is backing Jeb?
I’d say the deal has been struck.
I’m not buying.
He’s correct, but probably not as he intended. Purging the Party of TEA Party conservatives is indeed narrowing the Party, enough to collapse it. Paul’s clinging to his state’s other Senator will be his undoing for 2016.
If the GOP would stop siding with its corporate paymasters and become the party that protects American workers, it would reverse the current downward spiral. Knock off the specific outreach to minorities and immigrants and concentrate on issues that appeal to all voters.
You want a narrow GOP?
Make the conservative base leave the party and you gain NOTHING in return.
Just what do these morons mean by “outreach to Hispanics”?
To them it means endless pandering: amnesty, citizenship, welfare rights, goodies, affirmative action priority, and all that “gimmee stuff” crap.
I real honest outreach would be a lecture on the rule of law and how it governs the rights of all, an instruction on property rights, and how one should not be forced to yield his hard earned wages to a demanding rabble, an appreciation and acceptance of another nations culture, language, customs, and laws, and an eagerness to adopt them.
The outreach should also educate Hispanics that if they fall for the siren call of the Democrat welfare state, they will end up in the same position as the blacks, trading their votes for broken families, unemployment, and a permanent underclass status to the democrat massahs.
Really? Who knew?
I’m not sure Rand Paul is saying anything wrong, but I do think he should stay out of the Bushes. It can only serve to alienate his conservative and libertarian fans.
Someone care to explain why Freepers, supposedly more informed and intelligent than the average LIV or liberal, still harbor the fantasy that this idiot is a conservative and worse yet, promote him as one?
Someone? Anyone?
The problem with the GOP is that it’s spending too much time being a vanilla version of the Democratic Party. Instead of telling people the truth that our federal government is too large and too intrusive in our lives the GOP goes out there and says we can make government more streamlined and better than the Democrats. Huh? When I see that there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties and don’t you think most voters see the same thing. Reaching out to minorities and other affected groups means the conservative message is going to get watered down to a squishy, centrist position that any run of the mill liberal can beat down in a debate and demagogue as extremism. What gets me is if the conservative message was adhered to and promoted night and day by the GOP they would obliterate the left big time and it would force the Democrats to run to the center if they wanted to remain politically viable. Oh, but I guess it’s only a pipe dream since today’s GOP is blending in with the Democratic Party to become one big government-centered, free-spending political entity. Yuck!!
To do so is to surrender to the leftwing premise that Americans are disparate groups happening to occupy the same geographical region.
Anyone can understand and appreciate being able to keep more of their hard earned income. But it seems like the GOP has totally given up tax cuts as an incentive.
Hanna understood that the cities were the key to electoral dominance because people were leaving the farms. The key to the cities was that whole body of immigrants, who had to be lured into the GOP, else the current wisdom would be correct. But he saw a weak spot for the Democrats.
Traditionally, the Democratic Party had been the party of immigrants. But the Populist Party was nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, agrarian and anti-urban. The marriage with the Democrats might be convenient, but it would create an opening for the Republicans among immigrants whose presence would no longer be welcome in Democratic Party circles.
Hanna sent political organizers, who could speak the languages, into urban immigrant neighborhoods to create German-American, Polish-American, Lithuanian-American and Italian-American Republican clubs. People would be recruited for these clubs even before they became citizens, as the clubs helped indoctrinate immigrants into the American way – and the Republican Party. Once the immigrants were naturalized and could vote, they became part of urban Republican machines, part of the American political process, and they voted Republican. My father’s side of the family was enrolled in an Italian-American Republican Club in Philadelphia when they arrived from Sicily in 1908, and my father’s side is still staunchly Republican.
Hanna’s ploy worked, as the Democratic-Populist alliance failed badly in 1896. Hanna’s new coalition based on immigrants held together until 1932, except for a few dicey spots where there were 3-way races,
What Paul and Bush are trying to do may be the only way to survive the latest wave of immigration. These immigrants come from traditional societies, and the Democrats’ latest enthusiasm for social change may provide an opening.
Rand is right, you know.
A bigger CONSERVATIVE party is a better party.
I guess folks here sometimes think (x) cannot possibly be a conservative.
x=blacks, Hispanics, single women, teachers, northeasterners, etc.
Fact is, if we are telling the truth, and doing it in a WINSOME manner, we WILL bring people to our side. Not necessarily in great numbers—but enough to make a difference.
We cannot, must not give up on these populations that aren’t currently “trending” conservative.
Sometimes I think we conservatives forget Churchill’s adage to NEVER GIVE UP. :)