“Put bluntly, can this party be saved?”
Hell, SHOULD it?
Reaganomics is what we need to put back in place (low taxes, the government is not the solution, it is the problem, pride in country, a strong national defense, etc.).
“6. Fan the fear: Ignore the critics, Republican wise men say — there is still no better way to win than to stir up concerns about Democratic patriotism and their commitment to national security and killing terrorists.”
Frankly, the Repubes have nothing else.
“It often remains the best call in the GOP playbook, especially with McCain atop the ticket.”
Well McGore is only getting the same loyalty that he showed us for the better part of the last decade.
Our political system is being Mexicanized. We’re in for 150 years of single party politics.
Republicans should give up their principles and bow to Democrats’ agenda in the spirit of bipartisanship.
McCain’s got it covered!
“We talked to some of the smartest minds in Republican politics....”
That is the problem. All their so-called answers come from inside the beltway, they quit talking to the ‘people’.
This is hands down the best article I have seen yet on a solution to the GOP’s problems.
We’re a country full of freeloading socialists and they seem to be in the majority. Whatever repubs do will be too little too late.
Illegal immigration: Close the border and deport the illegal aliens.
There it is.
Thats all six reasons rolled into one. - Nobody is listening.
A better question is can the Democrats capitalize by moving to the center and embracing soldiers, small businessmen, hunters, and last, but not least, Christians? A: probably not. So they will fail as well and the pendulum will bounce back.
Uh ... that's what they've been doing to get into this mess! Cooking up new ideas? crafting attractive agendas? How about trying that which works - CONSERVATISM! the point of which is that we _already_ know the answers, and problems stem from deviating from them.
The RNC and Republicans in Congress could save the party by stopping sodomizing the Conservative base and appeasing the liberals at every turn.
I have just one suggestion: Stop listening to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and their spin-off, Politico.com. Start listening to the folks back home.
I don’t know that I can come up with six ideas, but here’s a few...
1) On the war: Have the guts to tell the American people “Grow up!” We’ve been at war with Islamofascism since before Jimmy Carter left Plains to pretend to be President. Whining and bitching about the war won’t end it. It ends when we kill the bastards who started it or they kill us. There’s no in-between. You may not like the way George Bush has run the war, but at least he had the balls to actually do something about it. Can you say the same thing about any Democrat who’s not named “Lieberman”?
2) On “Family values”: Stop carping about them! The GOP spends way too much time worrying about who’s schtupping whom and in what position. We wind up sounding like a bunch of Church Ladies and get little done to actually promote the values we claim to support. Government can’t promote family values. The best you can hope for is that it does as little damage as possible. Don’t whine about Britney Spears flashing her goods outside a nightclub. Instead, point out that she and her fans are overtaxed and that this harms all families. Then point out that the Dems think that we’re all undertaxed.
3) On man-made global warming: This is a tough one since most of our idiot neighbors buy into this myth. But whatever we do, McCain’s stupid carbon tax crap isn’t the answer! Killing off the American economy won’t change the Earth’s surface temperature by a single milliKelvin. Instead, hijack some of the Greenies’ ideas and promote them from a national security angle. Reducing fossil fuel use won’t affect global temperatures, but it will de-fund our enemies. (Giving the Saudis money that they, in turn, give to Al Qaeda is pretty stupid.) If it turns out to benefit the environment, so much the better. But point out that the Democrats’ only plans end with the US economy in the crapper.
I can probably come up with more; so can others here. But in any case, it’s a sure bet that the Stupid Party won’t listen.