Posted on 05/03/2009 6:05:21 AM PDT by Born Conservative
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said.
The former president's brother, often mentioned as a potential candidate in 2012, said President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans.
"So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said.
"From the conservative side, it's time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because, you know, things do ebb and flow."
The Florida governor joined former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor on Saturday at a small pizza parlor in Arlington for the inaugural event of the National Council for a New America (NCNA).
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I understand that a third party only elects demon-crats, which puts us in a quandry, if the Gop continues as demo lite then a vote for the gop is the same as a vote for a third party!!! what to do???
Less than one in four identify as Republican
But unlike Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who became the first U.S. senator in history to leap directly from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, voters who once called themselves Republicans are not ready to jump into bed with the other side. Though Democratic identification has inched up in the past six years, former Republicans are now largely calling themselves independents.
What ever that butt wipe is for I'm against. Period, no negotiations.
Earth to Jeb and Romney and everyone who might agree with them:
This new strategy exemplifies exactly why the RINOs will lose election after election. They cannot understand that there was actually a message to the public from Reagan, and it resonated.
Yeah give it up, and copy-cat the Dhimmis in their tactics. That makes stale sense, and is as transparent in its bankrupt outreach as One thousand points of light and No child left behind.
This is complete crap from the so-called leaders of the GOP. The only people on your side now were sitting on the sidelines while 50 years of indoctrination of the children took place. There is no winning an election now, only whining about how you will be losing them.
I ask people in this forum to stop thinking that your ideas are winning people over or making any difference. They’re not, even if they do make rational and logical sense. You are preaching to a choir that is shrinking as the thoughtful people quietly die or give up.
The dhimmis don’t listen to rational arguments or logic anymore. They don’t have to because they have won the hearts and minds of the electorate, who just want a lot for nothing, and have no idea what a just and free society is made with, or was built upon, or how it makes sense to continue that legacy. They just want hope and change,
I leave it to you people to figure out how to take your country back. Posting bitches and whining about how the dhimmis are winning, or trashing the only good ideas from Reagan that have come down the pike for 50 years, isn’t going to do it. Sorry.
The Bush family has always been Globalist One Worlders. They’ve never hidden that view from anyone listening. Bush 2 helped pave the way for Obama. The former held hands with the Saudi Arabian nazi king, and the current deeply bows to him. McCain is a relic from the past glory days of America, yet he still sucks up to Soros money to fund his bogus Climate Change foundation. Anyone who stands for a sovereign and free America will never be President. Beware of sheep in wolves clothing.
Since a purely Democrat sample base would result in off-world reports, it's been necessary for the pollsters to build up their "independent" sample base.
Eventually you will find the pollsters telling you that NO ONE, not even you, self-identify as a Republican!
Since a purely Democrat sample base would result in off-world reports, it's been necessary for the pollsters to build up their "independent" sample base.
Eventually you will find the pollsters telling you that NO ONE, not even you, self-identify as a Republican!
BINGO!!
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html
National Council for a New America Formed
...
Our National Panel of Experts:
Governor Haley Barbour
Governor Jeb Bush
Governor Bobby Jindal
Senator John McCain
Governor Mitt Romney
...
Sincerely,
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Carter, Pete Sessions, David Dreier, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Blunt
Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, John Thune
Are any remaining Republicans still listening to anyone named Bush? If so, wow.
Wrong, but they would not vote for willard are another bush.
young cubans don’t vote like older cubans
In my own bumbling way, a liberal from a family of liberals cannot teach something they have no comprehension of and never practiced.
No wonder the freakin' republican party is sinking - it's no different from the socialist/fascists on the left. Perhaps a bit slower to reach the ultimate goal, but they're heading in the same direction and that direction is the opposite of freedom and liberty.
Eff 'em.
So true that the message of the dems is an easy one...we will give you stuff for nothing. The right has a harder task which is going into a business (government) that they are wanting to be smaller. I think once the politician is accepted into the “company” of the government they then decide they want it to be bigger and more powerful. This leads to a left turn and gets more left the longer they are there.
I don't self-identify as a Republican. I'm an Independent.
And it appears to me that the "leadership" of the formerly grand old party is doing a fine job of moving their own numbers steadily towards zero.
Let me guess, you were for Ron Paul before he gave up his newsletter?
Hmmm ~
He is indeed a RINO, but his replacement (Charlie Crist) is even worse!
I see now, the moderates have formed a new Republican Party and want to bury Reagan and conservatives. Same bunch of losers Reagan had to beat back in order to win landslides in 1980 & 1984.
I don't see Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, etc. any true conservative, on that list. Shows how phony this 'new' GOP strategy is. Their 'listening' tour is bogus.
2010 Primaries are coming up. Time to sweep out the moderates one election at a time and put in some conservatives that will really listen to the people.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.