Rest assured, that moment will never come. Political courage is not their forte.
Posted on 12/05/2014 3:51:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
And they’re still a bunch of surrender monkey weenies.
Something tells me that Fred and I would disagree on the parameters of this judgment.
“Then there’s the ideological direction of the Democratic party. It’s tilting left. All the energy and passion is on the left. The party is being McGovernized.”
LOL. The dems were McGovernized in 1972 and have never looked back.
Yup. I’m old.
The Republicans lost my trust and support when they nominated McCain.
They have a long way to go to earn them back.
No it doesn't. The only division is between the political elite who want open borders, and the large majority of Americans who don't.
Even blue state Oregon voted 2-1 in November to deny drivers licenses to illegals.
How could one forget MorTON?
Barnes shows he’s as clueless as the GOPe leadership.
Republicans need to attract more votes from minorities, particularly Hispanics.Democrats need to attract white voters. The Republicans shouldn’t let them.
Most of all, Republicans must avoid self-inflicted wounds such as prompting another government shutdownto say that is to say that they must cave on every budgetary issue. If not every issue. Obama can “shut down the government” any time he wants. And Fred Barnes will cooperate preemptively in blaming the Republicans for it.
or nominating a poor presidential candidate.That pretty much boils down to not GOPe again. I wish I were confident on that score.
If shutdowns hurt us, how did we win so big a month ago?!
Candidates yes, but people with talent, conviction and character not so much.
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You got that right. After our blowout midterm, each of them who belong to the GOPe jumped on the band wagon thinking the blowout was because of them.
Those people will be weeded out quickly in the debates and the remaining will be someone with Conservative values.
Will Republicans put up a strong leader as their Presidential candidate in 2016? In 1980, in selecting a Presidential candidate, the Republican electorate rejected timidity and chose the bold vision and strong leadership offered by Ronald Reagan. In 2016, rank and file Republicans will have the choice of one more candidates of similar mettle. My guess is that we will pick someone like Reagan.
OK, I'll bite. Which state does not have a legislative chamber?
“The GOP has a permanent mentality of defeat that is deeply embedded in the party’s DNA. They would rather switch than fight.”
Perhaps its the corporate lobbyists climbing up their butts.
Nebraska
Nebraska is unicameral, has only one house.
That’s why they are pretending that they can’t do anything about Obola’s executive amnesty.
Nebraska has a unicameral legislature (single House).
Each year, more than four million older Americans die off, thank God.
Young Republican voters helped midterm election’s red wave, exit polls show
The party, or parties, that can better sell their message for the future to the younger voters will be the party(ies) that control the future of the country.
The GOPe did itself no favors by forcing their establishment candidates on the voters in this year's primaries, but they were able to do so because younger voters tend to participate less in primary elections than do the older voters. Fortunately, the Democrats do no better with the younger voters in primaries than do the Republicans.
In my not so humble opinion, the Republicans (due to their overwhelming wins in the 2014 general elections) have an opportunity with the younger voters. Several prominent younger Republicans are entering office. Several were show-cased after the election, namely Mia Love, Tim Scott, the young lady in the WV House, and the NY congresswoman, etc.
None of the Democrats who recently won have been show-cased as anything; they were simply older commies who somehow managed to hold on to their butts in hard-core leftist territory.
Older politicians of both parties need to be ridiculed out of existence. They need to go away. Until they do, people just need to point and laugh, and throw tomatoes, or something. The shift in younger voters toward the GOP is discussed in the link above. Republicans need to exploit that shift with younger candidates; younger conservative candidates; younger common-sense conservative candidates.
Republicans need to talk to younger voters. Democrats already do, from the time the youngsters start walking. If they never hear an opposing point of view, they will only have the leftist message circling through their grey matter. Younger voters are not children. They are young adults who have been lied to all their lives, and their prospects for the future are particularly dismal at the moment. That makes for fertile ground in the compost pile of ideas.
Perhaps its the corporate lobbyists climbing up their butts.
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That and the gullible voters who elect them and allow them to get away with it. No accountability in this country anymore. You would think that in the Republican Party representatives who fail to walk the talk might be held to account but that is rarely, if ever, the case.
Most in the GOP are in DC to build political careers. Those people want our money and our votes, but not our principles.
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