The Republican Party doesn’t need “A Big Tent”, that’s a media created fallacy, derived by number crunchers.
What we NEED is a Republican Party based on SOLID CONSERVATIVE IDEAS, with LEADERSHIP that is able to COMMUNICATE those ideas across a braos swath.
It’s a PROPOGANDA WAR, folks. And we have lost EVERY round but a few since the election of 2000
“What we NEED is a Republican Party based on SOLID CONSERVATIVE IDEAS....”
ROFL!!!!!! Yea, that worked real well. Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Biden, et al...thank you for your support. If only we had had a SOLID CONSERVATIVE we would have beat Obama?
Sigh, commonsense has left this planet, I swear........
Yes, we need solid conservative ideas and effective communicators to articulate them. We also need leaders that will actually IMPLEMENT those ideas (or at least fight hard for them) when elected. That is part of what has damaged our brand.
We know that, when polled, around 60% of Americans consistently say they are either very or somewhat conservative. No, we don’t need wishy-washy, go along to get along moderates. Those types can vote with us if they want, but their watering down ideas are NOT welcome in our conservative movement.
In 1994, the Contract with America contained no social issues — zero, zip, nada.
Since those days of limited government, strong military, fiscal responsibility, etc., we have spent as much time on social issues and growing Government under Bush as anything. The touchy feely programs. The Congress under Denny Hastert and Trent Lott/Bill Frist spent money like drunken sailors and giving us more and more federal programs.
They forgot what won us the Congress — true fiscal conservatives who were for limited government.
We had a great election in Oklahoma this year as we took the OK Senate for the first time EVER in the history of the State, kept the OK House, took back one of the Corporation seats and protected the other one, and clobbered Obama 66% - 34%! Went sent Jim Inhofe and 4 out 5 of our Congressional delegation back to DC. Why? Because our candidates ran on less government and less taxes.