[Gaffer]

In their four-minute video (search YouTube for "the Pizza Turnaround") executives, employees and chefs at the company confront their harshest reviews head-on. They talk about how much it hurts to hear that their product "tastes like cardboard" and is worse than microwave pizza. But they admit the truth and commit themselves to starting over with more flavor, better crusts, and cheese that doesn't taste like discount weather caulking. Domino's says that the American palate has improved, and they want to update their recipe to take account of that fact.

One of my inlaws ran a Dominos...he said that the ingredients for a typical pizza were about 25 cents cost. This is one of the reasons that I don't eat at McDonalds anymore....their meat does not taste like meat..their french fries seem like it's just compacted processed 'buds' of some sort approximating a potato.....about the only thing they haven't 'improved' is the coke...

[Uncle Ike]

We don’t want the ‘Party of No’ — we want the ‘Party of HELL NO!!’...

(I don’t know who came up with that first, or I’d attribute the quote — but it captures the mood out here pretty darned accurately...)

[ebshumidors]

The airlines tried this in the 90’s. ‘Nuff said.

[freekitty]

Good article. However, the Dems may have confessed their screwup with Clinton; but they went back and did the same thing with Obama which is worse. They don’t pick winners. They pick frauds because they are frauds.

The GOP should get with the program. They have an opportunity to join the people. Let’s see if they do.

Dominos Pizza does stink.

[The Great RJ]

For the Republicans to say we screwed up is one thing, but to get some discipline on earmarks and pork barrel spending is something else. The American people are mad about a lot of things but especially the orgy of spending coming from Congress. Far too many members of our party have gotten earmarks and special interest projects for their districts and are little better than Democrats. Then there is the issue of RINOs.

What the Republican party desperately needs is leadership and a tough no nonsense fiscal policy. That will mean giving up those earmarks and pork for the good of the country

[Rebelbase]

I tried a new Domino’s pizza earlier this week. It’s a big change from the prior product but nothing to write home about.

[Teacher317]

Republicans are a bit like the Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Americans were sick of Bush and the Republicans back then, so they threw their support behind the Democrats by default.

As with virtually all things, I'm reminded of a scene from "The Simpsons". The Springfield crowd is rallied to support a neighborhood watch. Ned seems to be the man for the job after everyone was chanting his name, and he humbly begins to say that he doesn't have much experience, so Moe impatiently interjects "Someone Else!"... and the crowd begins chanting, "Someone Else! Someone Else!" (Homer then realizes aloud, "Hey, I'm Someone Else!")

That basically sums up the wisdom used by the majority of swing voters... and often, the GOP candidates

[reagan_fanatic]

I tried one of Dominos pizzas after I saw the new commercial.

It still sucks.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Avoid the Noid!

Avoid the RINOs!

[savedbygrace]

Even if the GOP were to do as Jonah suggests, they would only be pretending to be conservative. The same people would be in charge and the same big donors would still be pulling their strings.

[spodefly]

But the GOP's troubles over the last decade have a lot to do with the fact that Americans didn't stop liking what the Republican Party is supposed to deliver. They stopped liking what the GOP actually delivered.

No matter how complicated you try to make it, it really is that simple.

[sickoflibs]

RE:” The trick for the GOP is to figure out what it will say yes to. Republicans are a bit like the Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Americans were sick of Bush and the Republicans back then, so they threw their support behind the Democrats by default. The Democrats over-read this support as a sweeping mandate for their agenda.....For too long Republicans confused supporting big business with supporting free markets, when big business is often the biggest impediment to fair competition. Other fresh new ingredients would almost surely include pro-family tax policies and the de-linking of legal and illegal immigration as interchangeable terms. But first, the GOP needs to admit it screwed up.(amen sol comment)”

I agree with much of this (see bold)it is sad and ironic that while the R party may look anti-legal-immigration over illegal immigration/amnesty, there was a massive historical wave of new legal immigrants to this country under Bush's eight years. It fed the housing boom on the east coast eating up every plot of open space in many areas . So what do we have now? Unemployment and immigrants voting Democrat (at least the past 6 years.) Did we really need them?

[AdaGray]

Step One: Get rid of Michael Steele now.

[randog]

Domino’s *is* bad pizza, but like McDonald’s, you get what you pay for. I think the best bang-for-the-buck pizzas are the fresh bake-yer-own pizzas.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"For too long Republicans confused supporting big business with supporting free markets, when big business is often the biggest impediment to fair competition."

Bingo! Being "pro-business" has hurt the GOP for decades. They never learn. They need to be "pro-free enterprise" and tell people, if big business stops serving Americans well, they deserve to go out of business and be replaced by businesses that ARE producing and serving the American People.

[Last Dakotan]

The connection is that Domino’s and the Democrat’s target market is children who don’t know better.

[Inwoodian]

The ‘Pubs might consider creating a fund to buy TV time after the election to (bypass the media and) explain to the American people directly what policies they are promoting and why. I know that it’s quite expensive but otherwise the mainstream media will skew the message.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I tend to agree with this author. I used to complain that the Dems just hated everything the Repubs were trying to accomplish, but had no real suggestions of their own to solve the problems addressed. Now I see the party of “no” doing the same thing. The GOP needs to be putting intelligent plans together to solve the problems the Democrats are addressing.

Examples:

The GOP did nothing to address the rising cost of health care when they had the floor.

The same could be said for illegal immigration.

Both are being addressed by the liberal govt recently installed. They are taking control of the health care system the way their party would handle it by making the govt even bigger and taking more liberty away from its citizenry. They are making “illegal immigration” an oxymoron.

[Mister Da]

Here's some suggestions on things the Pubs can say yes to:

Domestic & offshore oil drilling
Nuclear power plants
Fair Tax
A return to ethical & open gov’t, which we haven't had in a very long time
Spending & deficit reduction
smaller gov’t
a proactive, “get them before they get us” strategy in the WOT

More suggestions welcome!

[RJL]

But the GOP's troubles over the last decade have a lot to do with the fact that Americans didn't stop liking what the Republican Party is supposed to deliver. They stopped liking what the GOP actually delivered.

Well said, Jonah.