Posted on 02/20/2018 9:16:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
A group of Republicans who have decided not to run for re-election told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Republican Party has changed, and not for the better.
Reps. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), and Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) complained about the GOP’s narrowing focus and the perception that the Republicans must pledge loyalty to the president instead of to GOP principles. […]
Royce said he always considered the Republican Party to be “a big tent party” with room “for a lot of different viewpoints.” He said part of the answer is for the party to look at “what we can do to change the fact that no longer do we really have the types of friendships across the aisle that we once had.”
When asked whether “the tent is as big as it used to be,” Dent said, “No, I don’t, actually. I think what’s happening in Congress is the political center is collapsing, but that’s not true across the country. What I found is that we have become enormously polarized here in Congress, and that polarization has led to a paralysis. I mean the very simple, basic tasks of governing, just keeping the government open.”
Ros-Lehtinen complained that “very few women” are running for office on the Republican ticket. “Far greater numbers of women are identifying themselves as being in the Democratic Party. Minorities that have always been traditionally a group that we should really be going after.” …
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Well, PRESIDENT Trump said he was going to Make America Great Again. Changing the GOP was part of that.
They need to change quicker. Vast majority are still like these four.
Well NO $hit! And just in the nick of time!
No, it hasn’t.
The GOP is still the same useless, dishonest piece of crap it’s always been.
The true republican party did not leave you. You left the party, you RINO bastards.
Ros-Lehtinen’s remarks surprise me, but the others are totally predictable.
Good riddance to Flake. His departure can’t come soon enough.
The Cheap Labor Express is losing control of the GOP.
All of them Bush League Republicans intent on making America into North Mexico.
I have no idea what these light-weights thought Republicans should advocate for.
Isn’t it the founding principles, small government, and getting out of the way so people could flourish.
My God, they have micro-managed us into oblivion.
Yes the party is changing go what it should be.
We only need one full-on Leftist unit on the field at one time.
I’m glad these folks are cutting and running. Trump is a master at cleaning house.
“Royce said he always considered the Republican Party to be “a big tent party” with room “for a lot of different viewpoints.” He said part of the answer is for the party to look at “what we can do to change the fact that no longer do we really have the types of friendships across the aisle that we once had.”
Yeah, those “friendships across the aisle,” where guys like Royce walked across with their pants at half-mast, did a 180, and bent over.
I would assume, then, that she will be hitting the fundraising circuit for Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee and John James in Michigan, then, right?
Yes, you’re right.
Not a lick of common sense within that entire group.
They’re all out of touch with AMERICANS.
The GOP is a big tent but conservatives aren’t allowed in.
The GOP hasn't had principles for decades.
The Real GOP principles:
F your GOP principles, as they are not the principles that have long been the GOP. I for one am tickled you have decided not to run. Saves us the trouble of replacing you.
That's funny.
8>) You nailed it!!!!
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”This has been going on for so long and little has been done to reverse it.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
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