Thread: GOP: now & in the future

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Another example of how the Statist Media has brainwashed the Low Info's:

Poll: Majority Back Republican Ideas Until They Hear that the Ideas Came From Republicans.

Doesn't get any more stark that that...

No secret that the Repubs have a reputation for being mean spirited. Look in the mirror bm. It's all lies, innuendo, smears and intimidation. Right wing media is the problem. No wonder the public is turned off and their message is lost.

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

GOP: now & in the future

What future? Or are they going to move the party to another country?

It's called The Caymen Islands.

Originally Posted by Humbert

the public is turned off and their message is lost.

Precisely. Whats new, grows old, What once worked, now backfires. The blogosphere throws mud, other mudslingers then recycle and amplify it, and it goes round in circles in this little swamp known as the right wing blogosphere. In their induced hysteria, the denizens fail to notice middle america turning away and yawning.

their message is lost

The GOP has no coherent message any more. It is a lobby group for the already rich and business interests, hanging on the coat tails of every fading populist demographic in an attempt to stay relevant. Teabaggers, gun nuts, good ole boy racists, religious loons, oh and the already Rich. Some national political party.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Too funny

A mere two months after the Republican National Committee rolled out its $10 million minority outreach campaign, the committee’s director in charge of Florida’s Hispanic outreach says he’s now “taking a stand against this culture of intolerance” and is abandoning the GOP to become Democrat.

RNC Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach Pablo Pantoja wrote a scathing letter published by Florida Nation on Monday, in which he explicitly attributed his party switch to a controversial Heritage Foundation study on the costs of immigration reform. Reaction to the study was tainted last week once a 2009 doctoral dissertation penned by its co-author, Jason Richwine, was unearthed alleging that Hispanics are “low-IQ” immigrants.

The GOP’s new outreach program

RNC Latino outreach director now a Democrat

Smart move Pablo, you're way too good for the Republicans.


Republicans sure have mastered the art of offending minorities...

This sounds like an interesting read:

How the GOP Destroyed its Moderates:



Rule And Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Too funny

A mere two months after the Republican National Committee rolled out its $10 million minority outreach campaign, the committee’s director in charge of Florida’s Hispanic outreach says he’s now “taking a stand against this culture of intolerance” and is abandoning the GOP to become Democrat.

RNC Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach Pablo Pantoja wrote a scathing letter published by Florida Nation on Monday, in which he explicitly attributed his party switch to a controversial Heritage Foundation study on the costs of immigration reform. Reaction to the study was tainted last week once a 2009 doctoral dissertation penned by its co-author, Jason Richwine, was unearthed alleging that Hispanics are “low-IQ” immigrants.

The GOP’s new outreach program

RNC Latino outreach director now a Democrat

This is no surprise to me. I imagine that this is just the beginning of the Latino defections from the GOP/Racist party.

^^ Very true- I used to be one, intellectually (I have no actual right to vote in the US). Truly a disgrace.

I suppose the warning signs were there ever since they started banging the religion and nationalism drum. Sure sign of scoundrels.

So the once something GOP is going down- until it reinvents itself. I hope it is for quite a long time.

The GOP, the DMC both parts of the same problem. Major overhaul and radical new thinking is required.

Originally Posted by sabang

Why the GOP may regret its Obama scandal obsession

Why would they regret it? If they manage to unearth something they will be happy and if they don't they will claim it as proof that the scandal has been buried so deep it must go right to the top.

When they appeal to peoples vote and this mythical person known as Joe Average, who decides elections, will say to himself 'why should I vote for a party that is only interested in boycotting legislation and discrediting my country's government?'

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by sabang

Why the GOP may regret its Obama scandal obsession

Why would they regret it? If they manage to unearth something they will be happy and if they don't they will claim it as proof that the scandal has been buried so deep it must go right to the top.

When yet more voters see them as selfish, spiteful wasters who are only interested in getting themselves re-elected so they can steal more money, and will stoop to anything in a attempt at doing exactly that.

Originally Posted by sabang

When they appeal to peoples vote and this mythical person known as Joe Average, who decides elections, will say to himself 'why should I vote for a party that is only interested in boycotting legislation and discrediting my country's government?'

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

When yet more voters see them as selfish, spiteful wasters who are only interested in getting themselves re-elected so they can steal more money, and will stoop to anything in a attempt at doing exactly that.

Both fair points but the current demographic of US voters seems to ensure that roughly 50% will vote GOP no matter what.

All this frenzied howling will shore up the rabid base come the next election cycle allowing all the sweet superpac money to be spent on seats they consider vulnerable.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by sabang

When they appeal to peoples vote and this mythical person known as Joe Average, who decides elections, will say to himself 'why should I vote for a party that is only interested in boycotting legislation and discrediting my country's government?'

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

When yet more voters see them as selfish, spiteful wasters who are only interested in getting themselves re-elected so they can steal more money, and will stoop to anything in a attempt at doing exactly that.

Both fair points but the current demographic of US voters seems to ensure that roughly 50% will vote GOP no matter what.

All this frenzied howling will shore up the rabid base come the next election cycle allowing all the sweet superpac money to be spent on seats they consider vulnerable.

Yes, but the Hispanic, Black and Muslim voting population will have risen again by that time.

That is an eye opening chart. Pathetic that the neo-cons still try to blame the Obama administration for the US deficit.

What the GOP became (a disgrace) never funded anything. Not tax cuts, or wars. Now they expect you to pay for it.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by sabang

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Bereft of ideas, policy & talent.

Heh...you mean no new ways to tax & spend?

Regarding talent - got you there. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and a whole cast of up & comers ready to take the country back from the Nanny Staters.

Believe it - the country's attitude towards more 'takers' then 'makers' will swing around and put a boot up these progressives asses.

Is this the same Marco Rubio who publicly embraced Jonathan Karl’s Benghazi lie?

Marco Rubio sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

So how is it that Marco Rubio publicly parroted Jonathan Karl’s lie in May despite the fact that he was briefed on the actual emails in February and March?

Either Rubio was willfully negligent, not even bothering to double-check the emails, which he had access too ever since the briefing, before going public. Or, Rubio knew Jonathan Karl’s story was a lie, and repeated it anyway.

If Marco Rubio is the "savior" of the Rebublican party, I daresay the Dems don't have much to worry about.

In focus groups, voters who had left the Republican Party said they found the GOP to be "scary," "narrow-minded," "out of touch" and the party of "stuffy old men."
(Source: RNC Issues Scathing Analysis of GOP - WSJ.com)

What's wrong with the Republican party?

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

If Marco Rubio is the "savior" of the Rebublican party

He's going about things much more sensibly than Ted Cruz, I'll give him that.
Bending over backwards to cater to the teabaggers might get you headlines but, as the last election surely showed, it's the kiss of death if you want to appeal to the national vote.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

If Marco Rubio is the "savior" of the Rebublican party

He's going about things much more sensibly than Ted Cruz, I'll give him that.
Bending over backwards to cater to the teabaggers might get you headlines but, as the last election surely showed, it's the kiss of death if you want to appeal to the national vote.

Ted Cruz hardly deserves mention- the chances that the first term senator from Texas could be a serious contender for the White House are minuscule. His appeal is limited to Tea Party voters. He has alienated fellow Republicans. He lacks the charisma necessary for a presidential candidate. And unlike Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., with whom he is frequently compared, Cruz has no solid Latino base.

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Marco Rubio sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The intelligence committees need a base from which to measure zero, hence Rubio. It's the same reason that Bachmann is on the house intelligence committee.

In the wake of all these Obama Scandals it now appears that the folks trust the GOP more than the Democrats:

The Democratic Party’s edge over the GOP on who the public trusts more on ethics and corruption issues has flipped in the wake of the IRS and Benghazi scandals, according to Rasmussen Reports.


Not only do voters trust Republicans more now, they have their highest level of confidence in the GOP and the lowest level in Democrats in seven months.
While the Democrats had an eight-point “trust advantage” over Republicans a month ago, Rasmussen’s latest poll said that edge has disappeared and now the GOP has a two-point advantage."


Only reason the folks placed trust in the Democrats is thru a combination of low information voter attitudes and plain stupidity.