Posted on 11/12/2012 10:21:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Gingrich: GOP needs to be "inclusive"
In the aftermath of Mitt Romney's presidential loss last week, Newt Gingrich is joining the cadre of Republicans calling for the Republican Party to more actively reach out to a more diverse electorate, arguing on Monday that the party needs to become more "inclusive."
"I think we need to be inclusive, and I emphasize the difference between inclusive and outreach," Gingrich said Monday morning in an appearance on ABC's "The View." "Outreach is when five white guys have a meeting and call you. Inclusive is when you're in the meeting. And I think we have to understand to be inclusive."
Gingrich, who was joined by his wife Callista on the show, argued that Republicans had "misunderstood the American people" in 2012, and that the GOP can't just wait until 2016 to try to broaden its reach.
"The Republican doctrine of highly paid consultants spending hundreds of millions of dollars on 30-second ads doesn't build a party," he said. "The Republican Party better not wait until 2016. The Republican Party better rethink in 2013 how we're going to deal with the country's issues and do it in a way that the average American looks up and says, you know, those are folks I'm willing to trust with my future. We lost that."
He added that "there were a whole series of fundamental things that were really wrong" with how the GOP framed the 2012 election, including the fact that the Obama campaign so successfully appealed to non-white voters.
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We have to change our country to be more like the failed state(s) that these people who now inhabit our country hail from. Does anyone see the insanity of this?
I am soooooooo done with these people on "our" side.
We are inclusive, but we are painted as something else. We have to work around the media and the opposition party to change perception. It is amazing how effective the demonization is.
Even this year, our entire convention was built to show our inclusiveness and showcase some of our exceptional Republican women, Hispanics and blacks. Little of that gets through the media filter.
We have to go straight to the people and somehow defeat this.
You wanna know the problem? Who today can honestly stand up and say “I am proud to be a Republican?”......I bet you could count them on one hand......Most, like me, just hate Democrats even more....but no way would I say right now that I am proud to be Republican.....THAT’s what the GOP better start figuring out. Because there are millions of Democrats out there that love to boast about being Democrats.
Be prepared to hear all about lots of “voters staying home”...the Bipartisan Oligarchy would rather we all stew in that mess..than having us all bothered, and deciding to investigate, about all the voters voting who never voted...
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
The very LAST thing the Bipartisan Oligarchy want or need is any semblance of Constitutional Federal Gov’mt or a clean vote.
Both those are up to We the People to cram it down their throats so hard in DC they will, someday, never do otherwise. The “leadership” of either party, including Newty, isn’t gonna go anywhere with any of this.
Absent a clean vote.....We the People are being taxed without representation..Ask George III how well that worked out!
This is something that RINOs and liberals will never understand.
To be conservative means that you truly judge people by their character, and by their ideas, not their ethnic group or external characteristics.
And you don’t pander to groups the way Democraps do. To do so would be contrary to conservatism. We naturally accept people of different races, colors, etc. if they share our values.
The problem is not that conservatives are not “inclusive” enough. The problem is that the Media and Ds have brainwashed certain groups that the GOP hates them, and there’s not too much we can do about that unless we can penetrate the fog of MSM propaganda.
They tried being inclusive with Mia Love and Marco Rubio at the convention, but the media deliberately and intentionally REFUSED to broadcast their speeches.
Whenever a non-White Republican inspires and fires up the party the left immediately shoots them down.
The media’s agenda is to keep everyone thinking that the Republican party is the party of rich white men.
Besides, most NON-WHITES have been well trained by the left to be dependent on government and our hard work. THAT’s why there are so few non-Whites in the Republican party.
He/The GOP is seeing the direction our country is going by election. Now is they opened their eyes and see it is not going that way but voter fraud makes it appear that way!
AMEN!
The real problem with America is that it is now divided into special interest groups and all the groups want to fleece the nation, or force the whole nation to kowtow to their individual issue.
We no longer see ourselves as Americans or a nation of like individuals who care about the country and share the same goals.
The left has forever ruined the concept of a “united” states. We are just a bunch of tribes sharing the same space and fighting with each other.
The real problem with America is that it is now divided into special interest groups and all the groups want to fleece the nation, or force the whole nation to kowtow to their individual issue.
We no longer see ourselves as Americans or a nation of like individuals who care about the country and share the same goals.
The left has forever ruined the concept of a “united” states. We are just a bunch of tribes sharing the same space and fighting with each other.
Correct. Why vote for the imitator if you can vote for the real thing?
That’s what happened when the “melting pot” became a “tossed salad.”
>>This does not mean compromising or changing our principles. It means explaining them instead of ignoring these groups. It means doing what Paul Ryan wanted to do: going into these communities and telling people there why conservatism is good for them.
Actually, it does mean compromising or changing our principles. You can’t explain anything like the value of hard work to people who greet you with “show me da money”. You can’t fight the media in nation where the unemployed can afford cable TV.
How can you win over people who vote for skin color and free stuff? How can you make conservatism work under a system where labor is taxed to pay entitlements to the non-working? How can you be pro-life while encouraging abortion? Why do we have to struggle to promote blacks and hispanics as candidates just to prove how “big tent” we are?
Freedom to live as you see fit should be our Big Tent. But most Americans do not want to live free. They just want free stuff and they want someone else to work for it. That’s the hard fact of life in the 21st century USA.
The Dems won, so all we’re left with is “Burn Baby, Burn!”
Tell us, then, who on the campaign trail really did mean everything they said and the experience to do it?
That's news, when did they chose Newt? Fill us in.
Well, gee, maybe none of them, including Newt.
On the view?
What a whore
Should the GOP turn for its leadership to the likes of Christine Todd Whitman, Lowell Weicker, Susan Collins or Dick Riordan?
I suspect Mr. Gingrich and I have a different view of what “inclusive” means.
His probably means “let’s play the pander game and get demographic X to like us more.”
My definition is “let’s make a better effort to get our true message out to demographic X instead of the usual distortions of the MSM or the opposition party (which are often one and the same.) “
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