Until people are willing to acknowledge the profound good President Bush did for this nation, this country is going to continue to flounder.
Bush hate is shutting down the critical thinking of of this country.
Why do we need to take advice from Dems? Obama is the one who tried to act like a Rep during the campaign, including promising 95% of Americans a tax cut. The article is pure BS from start to finish. Why even post it?
Why would anyone think that liberalism is the key to future Republican success- much less think that the idea is so obvious that objecting to it is “bizarre”?
Most of the carnage in the GOP over the past couple of election cycles has been RINOs getting beat by the Democrats.
The RINO way has been tried, the Republican Party even nominated McCain in 2008. Voters just aren’t inclined to vote for liberals just because of an “R” behind their name.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121979655649074871.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Mr. Gerstein, a Democratic strategist and political commentator based in New York, is the founder and president of Gotham Ghostwriters.
So, basically, the author of this article thinks if Republicans become Democrats, they will when elections? Right? What a moron.
Just for the Record, the statement about Republicans need “to repair the damage the Bush presidency had done to their brand”....
Bush did NOT damage the Presidency, the Liberal Media had 8 yrs of frustration and constant Bias to Damage the Presidency, and the Republicans did not have a Media voice.
A propaganda Campaign for the ages.
FOX news was “Delivered” to Americans out of this massive Media misinformation campaign along with the Death knell of the Liberal Print Media has also been gifted to Americans.
I’ll take 8 more years of Bush over 8 months of BHOle.
Anytime.
I do not want 8 more years of Pelosi or Reid, and neither does America.
When I read the phrase “Bobby Jindal’s widely-ridiculed response to the president’s address” my Freeper alarm system went off. That’s partisan claptrap. Agitprop. The article is bogus propaganda, and the author probably a slimeball. All based on that one turn of phrase “widely-ridiculed”.
The GOP would do well to stop taking advice from people who want to destroy it.
Well there's the problem right there...Who appointed these guys as leaders??? They're not MY leaders...They own the GOP???
You can't be a leader if you don't have followers...And the followers are fleeing the GOP like rats fleeing sinking ship...
If they won't leave the GOP, I'm joining a new Party, the GNP...The Grand New Party...
Oh please, if we don’t need to read this Leftist crap here, it is easy enough to find in any of the Moronic Media. Don’t feed the Commies!
I gave up on this piece early, at about the point where the author referred to the ignorant chattering class as the “sensible center”.
I would say Bush’s biggest failure was they closed door behind the scenes Shamnesty Bill debacle.
Conservative Republicans need to stick to their principals and scream them from the roof tops. I tired of so called Republicans preaching this BS.
Obama’s ratings are down from 69% to 56%, the worst “honeymoon” period for any elected president since polls were invented. The Democrats’ lead in the generic Congressional polls are down from nine points to one or two, with the GOP base energized an dlikely to come out in strong numbers. I fully expect the GOP to take back the House in 2010. And this idiot thinks it’s bizarre that the the GOP strategy isn’t to simply roll over?
The politically disastrous elements of the Bush strategy weren’t being too much like Rush Limbaugh; it was the unrelenting promotion of illegal immigration in the face of exasperated, angry and overwhelmign opposition, political correctness guiding domestic policy, and allowing Ted Kennedy to rule America.
Obama’s ratings are down from 69% to 56%, the worst “honeymoon” period for any elected president since polls were invented. The Democrats’ lead in the generic Congressional polls are down from nine points to one or two, with the GOP base energized an dlikely to come out in strong numbers. I fully expect the GOP to take back the House in 2010. And this idiot thinks it’s bizarre that the the GOP strategy isn’t to simply roll over?
The politically disastrous elements of the Bush strategy weren’t being too much like Rush Limbaugh; it was the unrelenting promotion of illegal immigration in the face of exasperated, angry and overwhelmign opposition, political correctness guiding domestic policy, and allowing Ted Kennedy to rule America.
Well, Dan, you seem to have made all the calculations regarding where the Republicans went wrong and where they continue to go wrong. So tell us, Dan, what do you BELIEVE in. I don’t want to hear your political calculations so that we can appeal to this group or that group. What do you BELIEVE in. McCain’s nomination was the product of a political calculation (and the dumbest primary election system ever conceived). McCain was supposed to allow us to reach across the aisle to capture disaffected Democrats and at the same time attract the moderate among our electorate to our cause. Guess what, McCain’s candidacy had no discernible cause. He appeared to stand for everything and thus stood for nothing sort of like the Republican party today. He was all over the map trying to appeal to this one and that one. His futile attempt to carve a message without a guiding philosophy (uh, conservatism) trapped him in a plethora of inconsistencies. He looked shaky and unbalanced and while not requiring a teleprompter 24/7, 365 he managed to alienate the very groups he was trying to attract and appeared to be operating from a different playbook than his vice presidential nominee who pretty consistently, but not always, operated from a set of conservative principles.
You guys who keep telling us that we have to moderate our beliefs to win, have it all wrong. Moderation is a loser. When we moderate we appear to stand for nothing or at least sound like the other side only lite. Principled politics is a winner. The liberals can’t do it because if their underlying principles were expressed publicly it would become very clear, very fast that they are socialists, thus the teleprompters and the euphamisms.
Moderation also means breaking the electorate in sub-categories and then promising these sub-categories things like money, public works projects, and jobs in return for their support. The Democratic party has something like 10 tribes that all must be coddled. There’s the trial bar, teachers unions, other unions, black race hustlers, Hispanic race hustlers, gay/lesbian etc alliances, abortion/women’s groups, illegal immigration proponents, environmental hoaxists, pornographers, the media (the same?), Hollywood (same, again?)and I’m sure many others. Where do you think all of those hyphenated Americans came from and why? You want us to go there?
Rush recently argued against policy “wonkism” on the part of the Republican party as opposed to getting “first principles” clear and communicated. I think this is what he was talking about. So, Dan, put the calculations aside for a moment and articulate your first principles because, to paraphrase, “If you stand for everything you stand for nothing.”
It's a shame that an operation run by a good conservative (at least on economic issues) like Steve Forbes employs lefties like Gerstein to write for them.
It so happens that, contrary to what Gerstein claims, the Republicans need no great novel approaches to the current political climate. Once voters take a look at their retirement plan statements and the values of their houses, or even worse, lose their jobs or businesses, their enthusiasm for O's assinine economic policies will melt as quickly as ice in the Sahara desert, and their fascination with Obama will tank accordingly.
Does this metrosexual have the same DNA as that weenie David Frum?
Surprised that Forbes would hire an idiot like this guy.