RNC, of which I allowed my membership to lapse under Duncan, hasn't changed its core beliefs.
I'd argue that Steele is being smart here. Attracting voters to the Republican Party is not, I will repeat that, NOT, the same as appeasing them or adopting their views as official Republican policy.
Look, this is idiotic. If this article was about a Demonrat leader saying how they planned to “reach out” to pro-lifers and 2nd Amendment activists — while not compromising their pro-abortion, anti-gun policies — we’d all laugh at how dumb that is.
You can't be serious.
"I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party" -- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents."
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1975
Deja vu all over again.
“Attracting voters to the Republican Party is not, I will repeat that, NOT, the same as appeasing them or adopting their views as official Republican policy.”
BS. Pro-abortion voters won’t vote for an anti-abortion candidate, period. The only way to get the votes of pro-abortion people is TO BECOME PRO-ABORTION. And if the Republican becomes pro-abortion, then many old school conservatives (including me) will not vote for Republicans.
Or do you think pro-abort people will overlook that Republicans are anti-abortion and vote for us because they want smaller government? (yes, I’m pretending for the moment that Repubs are actually in favor of shrinking the government despite no supporting evidence for the last several years)
NO, they want abortion all day every day, at any time for any reason, so they will vote Democrat. If the Repub party becomes pro-abort, then we simply have two Democrat parties and we’re back to “not a dime’s worth of difference.”