Posted on 11/25/2012 2:25:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On “Fox News Sunday,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said the GOP has work to do, including embracing “a bigger tent” to attract a bigger constituency.
“I think we have to have a bigger tent. That’s — no doubt about it,” McCain said. “And, obviously we have to do immigration reform. There is no doubt whatsoever that the demographics are not on our side. And, we are going to have to give a much more positive agenda. It can’t be just being against the Democrats and against Harry Reid and against Obama. You got to be for things, and we have to give them something like the Contract with America that we gave them some years ago. We’ve got to give them something to be for.”
McCain also suggested that the Republican Party should strike a softer tone on social issues...
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If that were going to work it would have saved Scott Brown who openly called himself a pro choice republican and supporter of gay marriage.
The only real difference between our parties is moral. We’re pro-life and pro-marriage. They’re not.
Economic and defense issues are important but get bogged down in numbers and technicalities. Obama uses phony numbers to pretend he is cost-conscious and strong on Defense like Republicans.
Obama says, just like the Republicans, I’m for tax cuts — for the middle class.
He says — I’m for budget cuts — albeit the phony Medicare cuts. I’m for a strong defense (despite his proposed Defense cuts) because I killed Osama bin Laden.
Abortion and marriage are more clear. You have to take a stand, one way or another.
Ah yes. Continue killing 3.300 unborn and newly born American citizens while allowing thousands of illegal aliens to cross our borders, use up our tax money, and vote for the sock puppet who lives in our White House. Do we live in a great country or what!
Sara Johnson to McStupid: A tent requires stakes and boundries. You got none.
The R party has followed McCain’s suggested approach since the 1992 election. It only won with Bush II who had a tough and slightly more conservative image than the other candidates. What McCain is recommending is to double-down on a well-tested and ineffective approach. I don’t think the R party realizes how awful their strategy is. In 2008, they ran against an inexperienced politician who came from the kook wing of academic political philosophies. If the R party hasn’t realized that being meek and vague doesn’t motivate voters, they need only look to the only period in the past 20 years when R voters were enthusiastic and a new American movement burst on the scene. That was with the Tea Party and S Palin. They should take some lessons from that movement—not necessarily run S Palin for Pres., although I think she is remarkable, but take some lessons regarding how to motivate voters without necessarily having to pay them with wages forced from the labors of working people, as does the D party.
If McCain wanted to help the GOP he might consider dropping his instinctive support for involvement in foreign wars that aren’t our problem (like Libya).
I’m not anti war but we aren’t even considering what the people want, American lives unnecessarily lost, cost or anything else these days. If there is a war anywhere in the world, the McCain wing of the GOP is chomping at the bit to get involved.
I wonder if McCain and other R party leaders realize how his comments and those of others in the days since Nov 6 have cost them in voters? They are weakening their base while chasing at dreams of a multi-culti electorate they can never attract. They are wounding themselves deeply.
Maybe that’s what they’re trying to do.
I should correct myself—I shouldn’t say the R party can never attract a multi-culti electorate, it is simply they cannot attract any electorate if they do not have an information media to communicate to the voters. They cannot retain their existing voters if they discourage and insult those voters. And, they fail against the most idiotic and disgusting opposition politicians. The R party does not realize how badly they manage campaigns. They CAN attract a multi-culti and traditional American electorate, but they cannot do so if they do not EDUCATE and INFORM. Those are the two keys. The D party dominates education and freely infuses political spin into education of the young. The D party controls the system by which journalists and media personnel are trained and perform in their jobs. Until these two factors, essentially arising from the early educational system, are tackled, the battle at election time is extremely difficult to win. Appealing to a “big tent” and sending a “softer” message is a fool’s errand and will fail again and again as it has for years.
What’s even more repugnant is that in the case of Libya and Egypt, McCain and his queer sock puppet Graham were both up to their kiss ass lips with “Arab Spring” groups in February and are now full of self righteous outrage over events in Benghazi and Gaza. They have a share of American blood on their hands too.
McCain...KMFA!
Actually Scott Brown was against gay marriage.
Still an uber-RINO though.
Ya know what would look good on her?
ME!
At times John McCain seems as bad as Obama.
John...not the time in your life when you should be mocking G-d.
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