Posted on 04/29/2009 9:58:08 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Coming soon to a battleground state near you: a new effort to revive the image of the Republican Party and to counter President Obama's characterization of Republicans as "the party of 'no.'"
CNN has learned that the new initiative, called the National Council for a New America, will be announced Thursday.
It will involve an outreach by an interesting mix of GOP officials... [John McCain and Jeb Bush].
In addition to Sen. McCain and Gov. Bush, GOP sources familiar with the plans tell CNN others involved in the new group's "National Panel Of Experts" will include: [Barbour, Jindal and Romney]
It will report to GOP congressional leaders, and among those signing the announcement that will be made public Thursday are:...[Boehner, Cantor, Pence, McConnell, Kyl, Thune, and Alexander]
"However, this is not a Republican-only forum," reads the letter announcing the new effort, a copy of which was obtained by CNN from Republican sources involved in the effort. "While we will be guided by our principles of freedom and security, we will seek to include more than just our ideas.
"This forum will include a wide open policy debate that every American can feel free to participate in," the announcement letter reads. "We do this not just to offer an alternative point of view or to be disagreeable. Instead, we want to ask the American people what their hopes and dreams are. Since January, the President and the Democratic Majority in Congress have - rightfully so - put forward their plan for the future, now we must listen, learn and lead through an honest, open conversation with the American people that will result in building policy proposals that will yield the best results for our nation's long-term success."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Well good luck with your NEW moderate repub party .. and you can already plan on now winning in 2010 - no matter what Obama does or doesn’t do.
You can’t take charge when you’re spineless.
This one deserves a three-bagger barf alert.
And what happened to Sarah Palin???? Is the GOP leadership just determined to ignore her?
I definitely agree that the GOP needs to be re-branded, but I don’t like the sound of what this new “council” is proposing. It sounds like more RINOism and “reaching-across-the-aisle.”
Sarah is the only one who can beat Obama. The GOP leadership are going to look like total fools when Sarah takes the primaries by storm, and wins the 2012 nomination. As I have repeatedly said, the liberals wouldn’t be attacking her so hard if they didn’t think she could unseat Obama.
Necessitated of course by the fact that they don't have a single one.
A GOP of RINO’s will only result in my changing my affiliation to Independent. I WANT A PARTY THAT FOLLOWS CONSERVATIVE VALUES - NOT ONE THAT WILL BEND IN THE WIND
OH Great the Rino crowd just what we need more of../sarc.
Lipstick on a RINO.
Well... they SAY they want to listen to “all Americans.” I hope they get a stinging earful!
For starters, any forum that includes McCain and Romney can’t be a worthwhile effort.
Btw, the article comments were priceless. ;^)
Why even bother posting anything from CNN? It’s all leftist agitprop, though some of it may appear to be right-wing agitprop.
Rebranding the GOP with these guys? Isn’t that like rebranding Detroit with the Gremlin, Pinto, Chevette, Geo and Fiesta?
much of the comments were the usual GOP=racism crap but sprinkled with anti-white bigotry from brown folks oblivious to it
which pretty much sums up the state of affairs today
to win one must be in essence anti-white
all this accomplished with a ridiculous brown inavsion and the willing accomplice of the left’s usual demographics here
We are not the party of no!
We are the party of maybe!
Don’t forget the Vega!
Her usefulness to them is over so she will be cast by the wayside and demonized.
It was reported on a different site that she was invited but never responded.
She’ll come back in the primaries, smelling like a wild Alaskan rose. She is destined to become America’s Margaret Thatcher.
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