Posted on 04/06/2016 11:48:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
After the 2012 election, when Americans re-elected Barack Obama, Republican Party leadership rightly did some soul searching.
Republicans were in shock that Americans could re-elect a man they saw as clearly bad for the country, weakening us at home and fueling instability abroad.
Polls showed that Obama's signature law, the Affordable Health Care Act -- Obamacare -- was not popular.
It was clear that economic recovery was moving far too slowly, and that the economy was of top concern to Americans.
And that Obama's claim to understand the mind of Islam and that he would usher in a new era that would calm the forces of terror was false.
Yet, despite it all, Obama was re-elected.
When you lose, you can get mad or you can check yourself and change. Fortunately, Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus understood that the party needed to change. Not change what it stands for, but change its messaging and marketing to reach the growing minority populations that have been lodged in the tent of the Democratic Party.
The fact that it is now possible to be elected president of the United States while receiving the votes of only 39 percent of white Americans, the percentage that Obama received in 2012, served as a wake-up call to Republicans.
The Republican National Committee drew up a game plan for reaching minorities and started implementing these programs over the last few years. How effective they are remains to be seen. But you learn by doing.
What is clear is that Republican outreach to nontraditional Republican voters is vital. Projections are that white voters will constitute 70 percent of the electorate in in 2016, down from 72 percent in 2012 and down from 88 percent in 1980.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party keeps moving further to the left.
The future of a free and prosperous America depends on the success of Republicans to get more blacks, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, women, the unmarried and our youth to understand that they will be better off with a government that protects their freedom rather than a government that taxes and spends and plunges us into trillions of dollars of debt.
But at this halfway point in the primary season, the forces in the Republican Party that want positive and creative change have been overpowered by the forces that are just angry and fearful.
If the forces of anger and fear prevail, we will pay a dear price.
Donald Trump, the current leader in the Republican field, has succeeded by channeling anger and fear. By being flip and provocative, rather than delivering a thoughtful and comprehensive conservative vision that all Americans can buy into, he has simply ticked off and alienated the very voters essential for a Republican win in the general election.
Recent polling shows Trump's negatives at 70 percent among women, 77 percent among Hispanics and 86 percent among blacks.
You might argue that voters are so repulsed by Hillary Clinton that Trump can still prevail despite these massive negatives. But current polling does not show this. And this is not thoughtful, rational analysis. Cold math and logic point to a wipeout if Trump is the Republican nominee.
Put all this in context that Barack Obama's latest approval rating, 53 percent, is the highest it has been in over three years, and that it is higher than where President Reagan's approval rating, 50 percent, stood at the same point in his presidency. It should be clear that Republicans have challenges ahead.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Whoever molds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions."
Let's recall that Reagan was known as the Great Communicator. He succeeded in winning over nontraditional Republican voters by successfully communicating a conservative vision for America that they could believe and buy into.
This is the kind of leader Republicans need today.
Star Parker?
Lets all do what the GOPe tells us to do and everything will be fine. Not THIS voter. No thanks!
They gave us Romney, the loser that threw the election to Obama, and then did “soul searching?” Sure they did.
Why hold primaries. The victor in them is dismissed.
LOL
The GOPe/RNC and their lackies are outing themselves more each day.
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The GOPe/RNC and their lackies are outing themselves more each day.
Think of the money that could be saved. The GOPe lines everyone of the candidates up in a room and says, "You're fired", "your're fired" etc until they get to the guy they want. Easy Peasy.
But no....Republican voters continue to believe the next politician/lawyer will change things...what is that saying about doing the same thing over and over and over and over again?
Agreed.
And all the Cruz supporters here are in favor of it.
Why, we must do that today!
I agree. What’s that definition again, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome?
Lawyers...
Political insiders...
Washington cronies for decades...
Why not vote for another one? Come on folks, vote for another one.
Hey! Republican Party!
Ya Need To HAVE A Soul Before You Go "Soul Searching"!
Really? Then why are most pubbies in favor of uncontrolled illegal and legal immigration, mostly from non-white third-world shit holes?
Yup....and there’s more than several out here on FR who will back this endless, third world LEGAL immigration even though it is killing conservatism here in the States. 80% of LEGAL immigrants since the 1965 immigration act, over 40 million strong, vote democrat. 92% of Middle Eastern LEGAL immigrants are on food stamps....it goes on & on. Cognitive dissonance is being kind to what these people suffer from.
This is a pile of crap from the cheap labor lobby and their political cronies in the DC establishment, this is what is literally destroying this country by means of cultural genocide so that their will only be two classes - the elite globalist cheap labor “task members” such as CFR Heidi Cruz along with the political class such as Bush, Romney, Graham, Walker anr Cruz, and the rest of us who move down into the turd world status of life surrounded by goons, thugs, illiterates, grievanance mongers against white males, leaches and the government plantation.
What this article is saying is, how dare Trump say he will build a wall, and how dare anyone vote for him.
As far as “immigration”, I have an idea. Let us stop all illegal and legal “immigration” from Mexico and the turd world, but let us INCREASE legal immigration ten fold from cultures that will strengthen our identity instead of replacing it, let us play the same game the Democrat and Republican establishment have been doing to us for decades, but instead of demographic favortism for South of the Border and “Syrian” refugees et all, let us bring in hordes of Europeans, Australians, Russians, Eastern Europeans, and so on, to offset the 32 million Mexicans et all.
Let us play the same game to hit “reset” on the demographics.
What do you have against her other than she is a true conservative?
She is an interesting lady.
“Google” her and let us know what you find out. Her life — is an interesting one — a good read.
I read on a thread here that a GOP superpac recently bought 400,000 copies of Mark Levin’s book. Just wondering how many of Star’s books they bought to get this hit piece.
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