Change or die ... Mitt's biggest problem ... the GOP

Crabtownboy · Oct 3, 2012

It is time, yea it is past time for the Republican Party to do some soul searching and change its philosophy or it will die as a major player in politics. That would be a tragedy for the USA. We need two viable, rational political parties to function well.

The following quote is not from liberal think-tanks.

Today’s Republican Party is more radical and extreme than it’s been in more than 80 years.

Don’t just take my word for it. Norman Ornstein, a distinguished political observer and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (hardly a liberal bastion) and his colleague Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than four decades. They say they’ve never seen Washington as dysfunctional as it is now. And they blame Republicans.

“We have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party,” they wrote in the Washington Post in April. In their view, the GOP has become “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

While Democrats “may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25,” say Ornstein and Mann, “the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post.”

Most Americans don’t pay all that much attention to politics most of the time. But as the presidential election has begun to loom, they’ve started to notice.

They saw the Republican primaries and then they watched the Republican convention. And they’ve found a GOP far removed from the “compassionate conservatism” the party tried to sell in 2000.

Instead, they’ve found a party dominated by Tea Partiers, nativists, social Darwinists, homophobes, right-wing evangelicals, and a few rich people whose only interest is to become even wealthier.

These regressive elements were there in 2000, to be sure. They lurked in the GOP in the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich took over the House. They were there in the 1980s, too, although Ronald Reagan’s sunny disposition gave them cover. In truth, they’ve been part of the GOP for more than half a century.

But never before have these regressives held so much sway in the Republican Party. Never before have they called the shots.

Unfortunately for the GOP, most Americans don’t share these extreme views.

In other words, the GOP’s problem isn’t Mitt Romney. It’s the other way around. Mitt Romney’s problem is the GOP.
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targus · Oct 3, 2012

Didn't Crabby already start an identical thread a few weeks ago?

Why does he expect a different result this time?

What is it that they say about someone who does the same thing over and over but expecting a different result? :laugh:

targus · Oct 3, 2012

And yet again Crabby copies and pastes the work of other's with out attribution.

Winman · Oct 3, 2012

The article posted by Crabby was written by Robert Reich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich

Reich was the first Democratic candidate for a major political office to support same-sex marriage. He also pledged support for abortion rights and strongly condemned capital punishment.
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Wow, Reich thinks Republicans are extreme, what a surprise.

saturneptune · Oct 3, 2012

Maybe we could conclude that the Republicans are being hurt by leaders like Mitch McConnell for being too liberal. One might conclude that Republicans are too liberal due to the deficits that Bush ran up, or that the present Republican House allowed to continue. The Republicans could be accused of having a nominee that once had a liberal record and now has presented no articulate reason why he should be President.

To say the Republicans are too far right or conservative, or are too literally interpreting the Constitution is a problem they do not have.

LadyEagle · Oct 3, 2012

The Republican Party is what JFKs old party used to be and JFKs old party has turned socialist.

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