[goldstategop]

What does the GOP stand for to conservatives? Forget Reagan. What does the GOP want to do in the 21st century? Personalities or celebrities won't solve the party's problem. It needs to give Americans a reason to vote FOR it. Not just vote AGAINST the Democrats. Libertarians like Greenhut are even more disenchanted and many of them abandoned the party in droves in 2006.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[facedown]

Libertarians like Greenhut are even more disenchanted and many of them abandoned the party in droves in 2006.

Then they are idiots. You put up the best fight you can during the primaries. In the general, there's only one way to go.

[Always A Marine]

It [GOP] needs to give Americans a reason to vote FOR it. Not just vote AGAINST the Democrats.

Well said. We should have learned this lesson when we put BobDole up against Clinton in hopes that revulsion of Slick would win the day. It didn't. It seems like each time the GOP has had an opportunity to offer a clear distinction, we've trotted out a slightly less-bad version of the Democrat opponent. From Nixon through the Bushes, the lone exception was Ronald Reagan.

[pawdoggie]

Libertarians like Greenhut are even more disenchanted and many of them abandoned the party in droves in 2006.

The Libertarians abandoned the GOP? I thought they had their own party. Besides, I just came away from a running gun battle with a joker who says losing the Christian Conservatives is what the GOP has to worry about, not the freakin' Libertarians.

[Theodore R.]

What ails the GOP: the failure to enact its own platforms since 1952! Pretty soon, people wonder why the GOP doesn’t even try to carry out its goals. Why does it adopt EMK-HRC type programs all the time?