Posted on 05/21/2014 9:46:20 PM PDT by Theoria
Hoping to push their agenda ahead of the presidential election, a group of prominent conservatives has devised a 121-page policy manifesto aimed at giving the Republican Party a message that will attract some of the middle-class voters the party lost in recent White House races.
The document, to be unveiled Thursday, features eight essays with proposals on issues including health care, taxes and education. The authors hope the book will help Republicans address the economic anxieties of Americans and nudge the party from its most polarizing positions and constant confrontations with President Obama.
“We have to do more than ‘Stand athwart history, yelling stop,’ ” said Pete Wehner, a conservative scholar, referring to William F. Buckley Jr.’s vision for National Review, the conservative magazine he founded.
“Sometimes you have to do that and then try to bend history in a different direction,” said Mr. Wehner, one of the contributors to the manifesto.
A group of right-leaning writers and policy analysts, calling themselves “reform conservatives,” have been all but pleading with Republican leaders since the 2012 presidential election to move from the Reagan-era’s small government bromides and a mere opposition to liberalism to address voters’ everyday challenges.
But there has been little appetite for embracing such an expansive agenda among Republicans, many of whom see more benefits in their confrontations with Mr. Obama over issues like the attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
'The new Republican ideas are being promoted by a conservative group, the YG Network, with ties to Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader. Mr. Cantor and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, are set to attend a gathering on Thursday at a Washington policy group where the book is to be released.'
How about attracting back the conservatives you lost?
A group of right-leaning writers and policy analysts, calling themselves “reform conservatives,” have been all but pleading with Republican leaders since the 2012 presidential election to move from the Reagan-era’s small government bromides and a mere opposition to liberalism to address voters’ everyday challenges.
Right-leaning writers and policy analysts? The establishment is at it again with the help of the leaders of the GOPe. Is this another version of “compassionate” conservatism. Uh, we already went down that path with GWB just recently and all we did was grow the government. The Republican Party is the stupid party.
Ever notice how the retards down at the New Yawk Slimes never write articles about their “massas” down at the DemocRAT Party.
The first two authors are:
Peter Wehner - a center-left Neo-Con at Commentary Magazine who habitually and viciously attacks traditional Conservatives.
Yuval Levin - a center-left Republican who uses his exceptional writing skills to advocate for Big Government.
Ramesh Ponnuru - wrote the concluding chapter. I don't know much about him, but, years ago, he and John Derbyshire would get into some tremendous arguments about Immigration at National Review Online. My recollection is that Ponnuru favors Amnesty covered with a couple of “Conservative” fig leaves.
The fact that Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell will be attending the book release tells me that this book is the usual recipe for political disaster favored by RINO’s who are ALWAYS searching for a “New Way.”
Let’s do it the ‘democrat way’..
Invite 60 million Chinese to come here illegally IF they agree to vote Republican.
I’m sure the boys at the New York Times like Jonathan Martin won’t question us bringing in 60 million Chinese ‘dreamers’ any more than they question democrats doing it..../s
The Republican worries outlined in the manifesto are echoed in a new Democratic research project showing their House candidates faring better when Republicans are portrayed as not caring about working-class Americans in favor of the wealthy and corporations.
Instead, the authors lay out a set of ideas that they hope elected officials and candidates can make their own: replacing the new health law with tax credits for those who do not receive employer-based coverage; a tax overhaul that benefits middle-class parents; and changes to the student loan system.
These writers and scholars thought Mitt Romney was overly focused on entrepreneurship. Kate O’Beirne, who is an adviser to the YG Network, said the 2012 Republican convention “seemed like an N.F.I.B. convention,” a reference to the National Federation of Independent Business.“News flash: Most people don’t own their own businesses,” she said.
Cantor and McConnell?? Conservatives??
Hahahahshaha
Kids don't seem to like their fathers much in this generation.
Afraid the republican voter has to take the rap for these dodos, they wouldn't be there if we didn't vote for the lesser of two evils.
A vision of no more Obamanomics might ring a bell with voters.
Just run ads 24/7: "How are you doing under Obama?"
Full stop.
But it is so much easier to lie to fresh faces.
They haven't heard the same song and dance over and over and been thrown under the bus after the ballots are counted.
They are in no way stupid. They are progressive oligarchs that have a shockingly large number of so called conservatives (sheeple) in their back pocket, that`s not stupid, Machiavellian, yes. Stupid? Hell no!
So it is 121 pages of BS.
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