A GOP Disaster Avoidance Plan (Barf Alert!!!)

Townhall.com ^ | July 2, 2015 | John Warren

[Kaslin]

With Governor Christie’s splash in the pool, the population pining to be POTUS is now large enough to hold a special Republican Primary: only the declared wannabes would participate, each egotist getting three votes. Naturally, we’d eliminate all their first choices and zero in on the next two, thereby distilling a much tighter cluster of potential electables.

Seriously, we now have a candidate for almost every splinter view imaginable, and good people though each of them are, they collectively exemplify a party in confusion and dysfunction. As one wag pointed out, the last time there were this many declared candidates, a major party produced Jimmy Carter. To the nation, this gaggle of diverse leaders is proof positive of such a gamble: they seem not to be able to agree on who and how to govern, as each fears the Conservative Inquisition if they depart from the rigid testament of a relative few. That the GOP will produce an electable candidate in this cycle is becoming chancy at best.

Whether the rest of us live in fly-over country or in the four or five battleground states to matter in 2016, there are a few things on the GOP Must Do List my politically disparate group of acquaintances seems to agree on:

• Coalesce in the nearer term, and firmly unite behind an electable philosophy. Then, choose a brilliant, likable campaigner with broad appeal. Right now, however, the core right needs to welcome groups who agree with them 75% of the time.

• Without a full court public embrace of Latino and African-American like-minded voters, winning in 2016 and beyond is impossible. In each group, there are substantial numbers who share similar views on respect for life issues, aspire to middle class standards and values, and believe in American exceptionalism, but missteps about matters like artifacts of the confederacy, use of racist code words, and ethnic denigration are damning. Without success with diverse groups, states like Texas, once thought an indelible red, will turn a permanent, cerulean hue.

• If before the summer of 2016, elected Republicans do not present firm outlines for better approaches to Obamacare and immigration—without caterwauling from the diehards—give it up. Let me restate that, GOPers: No game, your shame. Noisy opposition is one thing; no reasonable alternatives—widely publicized—border on the politically criminal.

• Embrace with a smile the recent SCOTUS decisions overturning your worldview. Hard? Perhaps. Necessary? Absolutely. Enough people have benefitted from Obamacare that to continue to talk repeal only scares them and makes the GOP appear both churlish and mean. And most Americans know someone they like who is gay—a relative, friend, or co-worker. Parsing the biblical and anthropological definition of marriage is one thing; alienating a highly influential, sympathetic group—many of whom are conservative—is plain foolish.

• Ensure that people understand the relationship between unmanaged immigration with insecure borders and the stagnant state of low and middle-range wages: unregulated, cheap labor depresses wages at the entry, supervisory, and junior management levels. It’s that simple. Seal all the borders and create a path for those in-country (deporting, of course, all illegals who are also felons). Tweak the minimum wage, yes; wreck the job market, no.

• Agree to modest tax increases for the fabled one percenters just to take that card off the table—for good. Use the proceeds for infrastructure improvements Americans appreciate.

And who are my acquaintances? They are Christians, Jews, Muslims, and atheists who vote. They are indies, left and right of center types—but not edge huggers—and we may not agree 100% on all of the above, but we know we don’t have to. With whatever scorn the hard-core right chooses, they can call us moderates, RINOs, or rudderless weaklings for that matter, but if the GOP can connect the political dots above, everyone will also call us winners.

[PATRIOT1876]

They forgot:

Make a large statue of Oprah

Make free jelly beans and McDonalds as a right

Make Bill Nye the Government Science Czar

Make the Pope the Government Science Pope

Put Whoopi Goldberg in charge of everything else

[Jim from C-Town]

More unsolicited advice from the same losers that gave us McCain and Romney.

STFU. You are the problem Jackhole!

[Old Sarge]

And doughnuts, let’s not forget doughnuts...

[KC_Lion]

And Yet Again, Surrender is Always an expectable strategy!

Just ask the French!

[Norm Lenhart]

Or we could tell the lesser evil garbage to crawl back to the GOP, FOAD, and instead vote for and like the conservatives we come to FR and claim we are.

Radical idea I know.

[taxcontrol]

Surrender monkeys are out in full force I see.

[Flavious_Maximus]

“Embrace with a smile the recent SCOTUS decisions overturning your worldview”

Stopped reading right there. Why are conservatives always required to embrace the leftist talking points? I will tell this guy to go to hell. When the country finally collapses (soon, I hope) I will be there to remind him about what happens when you embrace leftist propaganda.

[Kaslin]

Mitt Romney would have been a thousand, no make that a million times better than that arrogant pos that occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Whether you like it or not

[D_Idaho]

“With Governor Christie’s splash in the pool... There’s an image I could do without”.

[Jim from C-Town]

Oh, I voted for Mitt. I think he would have been a good POTUS in many ways. Significantly better than Obama who is a complete disaster!

[Kaslin]

He sure would have and I will never forgive those on our side who stayed home because they didn’t like the nominee. The same thing will happen in the 2016 general election and Hillary will be the next president if the republican voters stay home because they don’t like the nominee

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Agree to modest tax increases for the fabled one percenters just to take that card off the table—for good.

Until the next time.

[Shethink13]

“With Governor Christie’s splash in the pool... There’s an image I could do without”.

Haha...I was just wondering if any water was left in the pool after that splash...

[MortMan]

Gotcha. You will never forgive those who stand up for their principles.

[Norm Lenhart]

Ask any NY resident about one time increases.

[Norm Lenhart]

You will never forgive those that would not empower the father of gay marriage in America ans a personal sponsor of killing babies.

Got iT.

That is the guy you won’t forgive us for not empowering so it is true.

[Norm Lenhart]

He hates us with a purple passion actually. Ask him.

[Jim from C-Town]

I would even go out and vote for Christie or Bush if it came to that, God forbid. Anything to not have that old harpy cackling and screwing things up for the next several years.

[SaraJohnson]

With Governor Christie’s splash in the pool...
New Jersey flooded?