[MovementConservative]

"Given what's happened to them{GOP} nationally and in this state, if they don't realize they need to change, they're not only driving the state over a cliff but their whole party, too," he said.

Never take advice from the opposition. The national party has been punished because they haven't been fiscally conservative and have come across as intrusive puritans. There are many Republicans/faux conservatives, even here on FR, who support totalitarian police state power, intrusion into the lives of adults for things that only affect an individual and are anti-science. The general public notices this and for obvious reasons want no part of it.

The American people are fiscally conservative, social libertarian, detest abortion, and not anti-intellectual. The present form of the GOP is not this way.

[Jack Black]

The Republicans are Charlie Brown.

[Jack Black]

The Some American people are fiscally conservative, social libertarian, detest abortion, and not anti-intellectual. The present form of the GOP is not this way. Another 40% are socialist, abortion-loving, nanny-state liberals. They are known as "the Democratic base".

There, I edited for completeness.