Posted on 01/25/2013 6:29:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the Republican Party to "stop being the stupid party" on Thursday as GOP leaders promised fundamental changes to help stave off future losses.
In the keynote address at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, Jindal said the GOP doesn't need to change its values but "might need to change just about everything else we are doing."
"We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," he said. "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."
Jindal, thought to be a potential 2016 presidential contender, offered little detail in the 25-minute address. He called on conservatives to shift their focus from Capitol Hill number crunching to "the place where conservatism thrives — in the real world beyond the Washington Beltway."
Hours before the speech, Republican leaders promised to release in March a report, dubbed the "Growth and Opportunity Project," outlining recommendations on party rules and messaging designed to appeal to a rapidly changing American electorate. President Barack Obama's November victory was fueled, in part, by overwhelming support from the nation's Hispanic, Asian and African-American communities.
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If the GOP is the stupid party, how come the stupid elected stupid to be our Prez?
I know, I know. We've been round and round on that.
While we totally disagree, I do admire your persistence.
Cheers.
One thing to add, the NY/East Coast MSM determined that Romney was going to be the GOP Candidate and look what it got us ? Another 4 years of Obama.
Now. Stop outsourcing the very jobs the younger voters need to live.
Oh look, its the Cringing pro-union, pro-tariff broken record.
Stop strengthening the Dems. Bring back American strength and American companies.
We tried outsourcing. All it got us was unelected.
Wait, the Dems have largely supported and pushed through the same free trade agreements that the GOP supports. Obama just recently got the South Korea, Colombia and Panama free trade agreeemnts passed. And the Dems are in charge. The Dems are winning with the free trade platform. Your logic is faulty.
Bring back American jobs.
As usual, what you really mean is keep competition out with massive tariffs. No thanks.
Conservatives thrive on competition, leftists hate it. Were it up to you we’d still be stuck with only the trash the big 3 automakers were churning out. To the extent they improved was solely because of competition.
Free Trade only works between countries that are basically both socially and economically even in terms of development.
Besides the federal government is supposed to ONLY be funded by Tariffs as prescribed by the constitiution.
He’s right. In addition, we need to stop being the whining party. Look back through these responses.
RR won because he articulated the conservative message well (not stupidly) and projected a positive vision for the future (no whining or negativity allowed). Those tactics, if followed today, would create the same megabloc of voters that overwhelmed the liberals cobbled together coalition of freaks, free riders, and freakin MSMers.
I think limiting political debate to "Does the Constitution permit?" this particular law, tax, regulation, or other government expansion would be enough, if rigorously adhered to by the opposition coalition. I won't say Republicans, because opponents of government expansion are a minority faction within the Republican Party.
Read his entire speech CAREFULLY before posturing.
2 comments
1. Jindal is a major player in the Republican Party. How does calling the Republican Party to which he belongs the “stupid party” help him or the party? Whether we agree or not, it appears like a naive statement to make in public. In private, yes. In public, no. His dem opponents will just use it against him
2. Jindal then said “We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I’m here to say we’ve had enough of that.” What does he mean here? Before we agree with Jindal we need to know if he was referring to conservative Republicans or liberal Republicans? I don’t trust Jindal.
Bobby needs a mirror. He does NOTHING to change the GOP or further the conservative cause. All he did during the BP “disaster” (that wasn’t) was whine and thump his chest.
Did he, as governor, tell Obama to go F off? No. Did he ignore federal BS and tell the fishing industry to keep on trucking? No. Did he tell the feds he’d sue in court and as governor welcome the help of foreign ships to clean up? NO!
Go to hell Jindal. You phoney. Try doing ONE THING to clean up 1% of the corruption in your back yard you useless twat.
Cheers right back at you.
:D
Your post warms my heart, the GOP are like Priest molesters to me.
Speaking of stupid statements! Jindal couldn’t have given Liberals more to use for their benefit if he’d allowed them to write for him.
The whole statement is a sickening admission that our values and principles have been flawed and we have been excluding worthy ideas and people. That’s the same speil the Liberal propaganda machine churns out every day. Now it has been acknowledged as legitimate by Republicans themselves. And in the next few weeks, more taxes will be unveiled to feed and house a new crop of Dem voters that will be put on the backs of the American taxpayers with the full consent of the Republican cowards in Congress.
I can’t wait to remove my name from the roles of this bootlicking, spineless party. Perhaps, if I live long enough, there will be a resurrection of the values that made this nation great in another political party. However, the descent into Communism usually has to run its course before a nation rises from its destruction and breeds ageneration that will fight it. An attitude adjustment in the form of a national collapse might bring that about sooner.
Until then, we will feel the burden of supporting the Obamanites until our backs break and our children take it up. Get ready, Republicans, to tolerate and bow to the antithesis of everything you ever stood for just so you can remain marginally recognized.
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