[Jim Robinson]

Fight the bastards or perish!

[exist]

Romney and Jeb should read this:

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.

It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?

Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?

Reagan 1975.

[bk1000]

Well, there you have it. It’s all Bush’s fault.

[Kimberly GG]

We need to find a listing of where they are going to be holding their Town Hall Meetings and “tea party” them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Give ‘em Hell Jim!

[DangerZone]

Do you advocate the creation a conservative third party?

[pnh102]

Conservatives won’t accept this socialist-lite rebranding either!

[Cheetahcat]

“with its unwillingness to face up to its responsibility for many of today’s calamities and the crimes of its leaders”

Meaning?? RINOs Democrats by another name. We need to clean house and let the Communists be Dammed.

[BenLurkin]

the modern Republican Party – with its unwillingness to face up to its responsibility for many of today’s calamities and the crimes of its leaders – has become a clear and present danger

They don't want to go there -- and they better figure that out soon.

[Tennessee Nana]

The left will not buy Romney’s GOP rebranding. They demand total capitulation!,
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Romney capitulating in ...

7, 6, 5, 4, ...

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The conservative right isn’t buying it either.

[broncobilly]

The left will not buy Romney's GOP rebranding. They demand total capitulation!

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I think there needs to be a rebranding, because the left is always trying to change our brand in the minds of the public.
They brand us as the party of the rich.
We need to rebrand ourselves as the party that results in prosperity and freedom, which is for the little as much as it is for the rich.
They brand us the war party.
We need to rebrand ourselves as the “peace through strength” party.
They undermine national security, which leads to wars.
They promote the nanny state, sexual looseness, and feminism which destroys the family, and has destroyed the black family life.
A healthy economy, jobs, self reliance, responsibility, and dignity is the brand we want to reinstall.
etc. etc.
Rebranding doesn't mean we have to find a new brand, new compromised policies. It just means that the public needs to be reeducated about the benefits of the brand called conservatism.
It is not so much of a rebrand as a clarification and reselling of original brand.
And don't think that doesn't need to be done.
And a good way to do that is to listen to what people are concerned about and then tell them how conservatism addresses their concerns.
Let's not be knee jerk about the word “listening” or “rebranding.”

[Will88]

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com. His two previous books, Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' are also available there. Or go to Amazon.com.

This guy is not worth the time. Seems he's been on the extreme of anti-Republican and anti-Bush viewpoint at least back to Iran-Contra.

[Cyber Ninja]

The power the liberals have right now is like that of a paperboy with a big Sunday newspaper rubber band and wants to shoot his enemy. They have it stretched to the limit and when it breaks, and snaps back to hit them in the eye; they will be momentarily stunned and blind in one eye. But they will not change course.

The rubber band snapping will be the people reaching the tipping point from all the big government activities that are doomed to fail and disappoint.

That will be the moment when a conservative leader will have a chance to lead.

There must be no mention of a government solution of any kind. The problem will be that the government has over-reached. That must be the only mantra and chant. Big government is the problem. Big government is the problem. Big government is the problem.

No “I told you so”, just: “Now, let’s get government out of the way and get to work.”

Cut this overbearing, bloated government in half. Free the people to succeed. Cut income taxes. Reduce capitol gains taxes. Eliminate corporate taxes, so they have money to hire. Eliminate government ownership in companies, so competent management can take over. Poorly run companies must fail and the infrastructure can be bought by others who can hire, manage better, and succeed. Unions must rethink their roll in the success of the United States of America. Eliminate the Dept of education and return authority for schooling to the States. And so on, to a million more reductions in government intervention.

Conservatives, be ready.

I haven’t been able to think of any other pleasant scenarios that can end this.