Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
When the Republican Party started creating policies that only benefited those with concentrated wealth, they set themselves up for a very challenging political game. The game was this: they had to get average Americans to vote for policies that did not benefit them. They thought they were voting on issues like abortion, but it turned out that they were voting to help a small group of investors access cheap overseas labor. In order to be so divorced from reality, the Republican Party needed to build its base out of mentally unstable people. They needed functionally illiterate people - people who don't know the difference between Bin Laden and Hussein. They needed people who don't know the difference between moderate Muslims and radical jihadists. They needed people who were under educated and easily fooled.
Unfortunately these well-meaning people are incapable of electing a candidate who has the sane centrism to appeal to the broad swath of Americans.
The GOP is like a man who goes to bed with a plumper, but doesn't know how to get her to leave in the morning. Meaning: the tea party is great for shutting down health care debate, but not so great when you need to elect a rational human being.
.
At least Schmidt is trying to come up with ideas, to shake things up a bit. I see no such effort from the rest of his party. The GOP just lost to a President presiding over an 8% unemployment rate, and they have convinced themselves --sound familiar?-- that it's because they weren't conservative enough, that they have no problem with messaging.
The GOP can attack Schmidt all it wants, but at least he isn't denying the fact that the American electorate is undergoing a historic shift.
.
The gop needs to start selling their message better
but when they are up against the rabid hate and fear mongering of the Democrat party with a lapdog DNC media
but this idiot thinks blaming a radio host and the PEOPLE in his party, then he can go straight to hell or go work for the Democrat party, he'd fit right in
When the Republican Party started creating policies that only benefited those with concentrated wealth, they set themselves up for a very challenging political game. The game was this: they had to get average Americans to vote for policies that did not benefit them. They thought they were voting on issues like abortion, but it turned out that they were voting to help a small group of investors access cheap overseas labor. In order to be so divorced from reality, the Republican Party needed to build its base out of mentally unstable people. They needed functionally illiterate people - people who don't know the difference between Bin Laden and Hussein. They needed people who don't know the difference between moderate Muslims and radical jihadists. They needed people who were under educated and easily fooled.
Unfortunately these well-meaning people are incapable of electing a candidate who has the sane centrism to appeal to the broad swath of Americans.
The GOP is like a man who goes to bed with a plumper, but doesn't know how to get her to leave in the morning. Meaning: the tea party is great for shutting down health care debate, but not so great when you need to elect a rational human being.
The right should read and re-read the above. It echo's of Thomas Frank's book "What's the matter with Kansas"
...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook the sweaty piety of the new Republican masses, the social conservatives who raise their voices in praise of Jesus but cast their votes for Caesar.
― Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Conservatives should just abandon the Republican party and start something new and clean. The Republican party is dying a slow death due to incompetence, ignorance and just flat out evilness.
yeah and the people in the Democrat party doesn't need any books.
good grief
The gop needs to start selling their message better
but when they are up against the rabid hate and fear mongering of the Democrat party with a lapdog DNC media
but this idiot thinks blaming a radio host and the PEOPLE in his party, then he can go straight to hell or go work for the Democrat party, he'd fit right in
Do you need a house to fall on you?? Their message sucks!!! Start selling it?? Where have you been, under a rock?? The American voters rejected their message. In 2008 and 2012!! Wake up!!!
LOL, that's how they won the house in 2010 and 2012
you all win a re-election by a small margin and believe it's YOUR message the whole country has embraced..
well that isn't happening dearie, but if it blows your skirt to think so, go on with it.
