GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan

AP / The New York Times ^ | 2010-01-05

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP all too often lost touch with typical Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: "We screwed up," he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party's resurgence.

That "we" includes the last two Republican presidents and the most recent Republican candidate for president.

In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

"We must support Republican officials who assert these principles," he writes. "When elected Republicans vote against Republican principles, the voters must withhold their support -- withhold it vigorously and consistently."

[FightThePower!]

Are there any small government Republicans? I think they are all pretenders. If Newt had been pro small government, he wouldn’t have caved to Clinton on the government shutdown, no matter what. If you actually believe in small government, who cares if they ever had funding?

[concerned about politics]

"We screwed up,"

You betch'ya.

[concerned about politics]

What REALLY REALLY REALLY screwed the conservative movement was the forgetfulness of the class of 1994...they were elected in a response to the abuses of a generation of Democrat rule—and quickly thought they would be there for a generation, too.

Not one wasteful social program was eliminated. Half the country is still feeding off the public teat. Schools are still indoctrination centers, and today they're worse than ever.

If the Republican party goes back to it's conservative roots and regains power, it has a LOT of cleaning up to do. Will they have the guts to do the right thing this time?

[Vaquero]

We Screwed Up!!!

and Michael Steele is a prime example of that screw-up....

[NormsRevenge]

Look at Calif’s Republican Governor, Arnold Wimponator. He recently announced he gave Dear Leader’s performance as Prez thus far an “A”.

With Repubs like that, who needs enemies?

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Yup.

Saw it this morning on loca news - The state of California is getting 50 Billion stimulus dollars sooooo..

The bigger problem tho is the gUb has been furloughing folks that process requests for stimulus funding.. so the money may languish around and not get spread around anytime soon.

and now, he faces actually having to layoff and reduce pay for workers. good luck, Ca GoP.

[SuziQ]

Proof’s in the pudding. We’ll have to see what the GOP does in this election cycle, and what candidates they choose to support.