Posted on 03/27/2014 8:14:05 AM PDT by cotton1706
The prospects of the Republican Party winning elections and governing the country are undermined by "the persistent belief of many voters that its candidates are out of touch and do not care about people like them," veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
The party's future depends on the success of reform conservatives to put forth their new vision on how to grow the economy and foster upward mobility, Rove wrote in a commentary. He cited Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as among the GOP reformers.
Reform-minded conservatives want to apply "conservative principles to 21st-century challenges" such as college education costs, healthcare, and tax reform, Rove wrote. Reformers want to think afresh how to protect the vulnerable and make work a viable path out of poverty, he said.
The conservative reformers can influence the midterm elections by sketching out their vision. Over the long haul, the GOP's future requires the reformers to expand on their ideas and mobilize support within the party for them, Rove wrote.
Ryan has been investigating what goes into making antipoverty programs successful. His data will be made available in a forthcoming book and could serve as a conservative blueprint for achieving upward mobility, according to Rove.
Rubio has focused on how to expand the economy. He is probing the nexus between government research and ideas that private companies can bring to market. Rubio wants to push investment by simplifying the tax code, energize job creation by moderating federal constraints, and encourage trade by removing barriers, Rove wrote.
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In your dreams, Karl.
Why does it have to be the USA?
Hoping Allen West will run agains’t Rubio for his senate seat next year.
“...he thinks...”
The third person pronoun “he” is used in my post to refer to Karl Rove. When the thoughts of cdcdawg are offered by same, they will be preceded by the first person pronoun “I”. So, when I write that these are candidates that “he thinks” will be more in-tune with what the base wants, I’m conveying what I perceive to be Karl Rove’s thoughts. If these were my own thoughts, I would say “I think”.
Sorry I made that so complicated in the original post.
You are probably right, but I don’t know that he would actually work for a conservative. The closest he’s come is GWB, and that’s where we got the “compassionate conservatism” garbage. Rove needs to made irrelevant, but I don’t know how that could happen.
He’s a democrat in name if not by affiliation.
Paul Ryan is the Vichy GOPee poster boy. He needs to be defeated at any cost to send a message to the rest of the GOPee.
conservative reformers?
Sort of sounds too much like ‘compassionate conservatives’.
Too many of the ‘reforms’ these guys are pushing are anything but conservative.
Rove has to tread lightly on this — the party elite cannot continue to trash conservatives and then claim some of the party elites are ‘conservative reformers’.
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Haha. No worries, I had a little too much fun being a smart-ass in the reply.
Yes, Hannity ditching Rove would be an awesome start!
“Rubio/Ryan 2016? Or Ryan/Rubio?”
BARF!!!!!
Cruz/West
Walker/West
Cruz/Paul
Christie/Ryan ??
Rove: “Reform-minded conservatives”.
This is “compassionate conservatism” repackaged.
This is also the kiss of death for Ryan and Rubio.
“Christie/Ryan ??”
Stop it, you’re killing me. Lol
Two ways that might help. One, if we could mobilize FR to all send an e-mail to Karl telling him that anybody he touts for president is automatically disqualified. Second, mobilize FR to write to FOX news and tell them that Karl Rove has to go,that we find another channel when he comes on. That is what we on FR can do and it might help. But it has to be a number large enough to get attention, and it has to be at the same time. Crash their computers.
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