Posted on 01/17/2013 1:05:09 PM PST by cizinec
Kevin Madden, a GOP strategist who worked on Mitt Romneys presidential campaign last year, said the retreat gives lawmakers a chance to start laying the groundwork necessary to re-establish the GOP brand.
Right now, we are caught in a vicious cycle of just reacting to events that happen in two-week increments. Instead, we have to look at our challenge of rebuilding in a much more comprehensive fashion, Mr. Madden said. What is the positive impression that we want voters to have two years from now, and then four years from now, when we have another presidential election?
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Ford OConnell, a Republican strategist, said the updated party message also must appeal to nontraditional supporters.
If we look at polling, the Republican brand is in the toilet. Part of that is the ideas are not connecting with what we would call the mainstream of the moderate voters,
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LOL, yet those are the complete opposite of the libertarians.
That’s policy, not strategy. Unless you have a strategy for gaining power, you don’t get to set policy.
Lower your voice. The big government knuckleheads who claim to be conservative don’t understand shouting any more than any other intelligent use of the English language.
1. No foreign military interventions without a formal congressional declaration of war.
2. Oppose inflation.
3. Bring home the exported jobs, put Americans to work again, making money, buying things, paying taxes and voting GOP again.
Who was shouting ? CAPS is shouting. I use bold italics to distinguish my comments from someone else’s when I’m quoting them. No emotional element here.
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