What would it take to make the GOP a "coalition" party like the Democrats?

[kwc57]

To be a coalition, Republicans would actually have to care about groups other than the rich

well well, the other idiot has arrived.

Republicans were killed last time as the party that only cares about the rich

They could do nothing to prove otherwise

Of course not. It's hard to overcome a complicit media machine.

 

[rightwinger]

well well, the other idiot has arrived.

Republicans were killed last time as the party that only cares about the rich

They could do nothing to prove otherwise

Of course not. It's hard to overcome a complicit media machine.

No it isn't

All they have to do is demonstrate all of the GOP policies that support working Americans.

 

[regent]

Today's Republican party is America's third major conservative party. The other two conservative parties are gone, kaput, dead, why?
Today's Democratic party traces its heritage back to its first liberal party the Jeffersonians.
A democracy needs at least two political parties to keep democracy alive and it is in the best interests of the people to keep a two party system, but Republicans may have to offer more for the American people than they have been doing. So far their tried and true accusations of socialism and communism don't seem to be cutting it as they have in the past.

 

[Redfish]

Republicans were killed last time as the party that only cares about the rich

They could do nothing to prove otherwise

Of course not. It's hard to overcome a complicit media machine.

No it isn't

All they have to do is demonstrate all of the GOP policies that support working Americans.

They do, but your repeated talking point is noted.

The GOP wants opportunity for working americans

The Dems want welfare for working americans

 

[JWBooth]

Do ideologies in political parties change from time to time, or have the Republicans ALWAYS been Conservative and the Democrats ALWAYS been Liberal?

You think they changed? With the support of Abortion to control black population and keeping them on welfare so they stay in their ghetto slave pens? No they didnt change. The only difference now is they incorporated black racists in to their party and used these house Negroes to keep the black people oppressed.

You seem like a person whose mind is pretty much made up and set in concrete. Perhaps I should not waste a lot of time trying to reason with you. I just wonder how you formed such intractable positions?

You gotta cut him some slack. He is, after all, barely sentient.

 

[rightwinger]

Of course not. It's hard to overcome a complicit media machine.

No it isn't

All they have to do is demonstrate all of the GOP policies that support working Americans.

They do, but your repeated talking point is noted.

The GOP wants opportunity for working americans

The Dems want welfare for working americans

You don't have to convince me, you have to convince the voters

Right now, Republicans are doing a pretty poor job of convincing voters that they are not only for the rich

 

[Dot Com]

What would it take to make the GOP a "coalition" party like the Democrats?

the sun would have to start rising in the west.

Seriously though- their current members don't want "other-looking" people in their small/cramped tent.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Since we are talking about the need for the GOP to build a coalition

Republicans have elected six (yes six) Congressmen, Denators, Governors, Presidents in the last 100 years

Some coalition

you had better check your numbers RW......
California has had 12 Republican Governors in the last Hundred years....they have had dozens of Republican Congress people......and there have been 10 Republican Presidents in the last 100 years....did you mean 10 years?.........

 

[rightwinger]

Since we are talking about the need for the GOP to build a coalition

Republicans have elected six (yes six) Congressmen, Denators, Governors, Presidents in the last 100 years

Some coalition

you had better check your numbers RW......
California has had 12 Republican Governors in the last Hundred years....they have had dozens of Republican Congress people......and there have been 10 Republican Presidents in the last 100 years....did you mean 10 years?.........

My bad

I was refering to Republicans electing black representatives

 

[Nosmo King]

nope, not monollithic. two factions in the dem party: the ruling elite, and those on govt handouts. Wow! what a great combination for america.

Your characterization of the DNC could be fairly applied to the GOP. Two factions. Tea Party radicals and the Country club pro-business set. Neither of which will benefit the vast majority of working class American households. And, oddly enough, neither GOP faction seems interested in reaching out to an ever changing demographic. How does that bode for the future of the GOP?

thats simply not true. Marco Rubio, Alan West, Nicky Haley, Deneen Borelli, Thomas Sowell, Bobby Jindal, just to name a few minorities in the GOP.

the future of the GOP is very bright, full of smart people with good ideas and a good understand of what freedom and the constitution are all about.

the continual demonization by the left just shows how deep their fear of the GOP really is.

I did not reference minorities in the GOP. I referenced disparate I political ideologies. And with those different ideologies and the tactians who employ them, I doubt that the future of the GOP looks anything other than bleak.

I find it interesting that you jump so easily to the conclusion that there is "fear" in the Democrats. Republicans love to use fear as both motivator and excuse. I suppose that's because fear is such a plentiful tool in Conservative politics today.

 

[deltex1]

Right now the GOP is 90% white. If other groups are growing faster than the GOP then eventually, they will have to actually try to attract people with sense. How will they do that?

There are not enough losers left over once the Dem coalition is calculated.

 

[kwc57]

No it isn't

All they have to do is demonstrate all of the GOP policies that support working Americans.

They do, but your repeated talking point is noted.

The GOP wants opportunity for working americans

The Dems want welfare for working americans

You don't have to convince me, you have to convince the voters

Right now, Republicans are doing a pretty poor job of convincing voters that they are not only for the rich

Again.....the whole complicit media spreading the DNC talking points. It's hard to counter when they only tell one side of the story.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Of course not. It's hard to overcome a complicit media machine.

No it isn't

All they have to do is demonstrate all of the GOP policies that support working Americans.

They do, but your repeated talking point is noted.

The GOP wants opportunity for working americans

The Dems want welfare for working americans

And this is one of many reasons why republicans will continue to lose voters, idiotic lies such as the bolded.

Voters don’t care how ‘awful’ republicans perceive democrats to be. Voters want to hear what republicans are doing to address the many problems facing the GOP – how are republicans going stop alienating Hispanic voters, women voters, and minority and younger voters; particularly weak democrats/moderates/independents who decide most of the elections in this country.

 

[JakeStarkey]

are there no women, hispanics, and minorities in the GOP? are there no conservative women, hispanics, and minorities?

women, hispanics, and minorites do not want to be "reached out to" they want a country that gives them an equal chance, does not tell them how to live, and does not tax them into poverty as the dem party has done.

Whatever the Republicans are doing, it is not working. Playing the....Look everyone......We have (blacks, hispanics, women) too!
Is not working out too well at the polls

Republicans need actual programs and political positions that attract and do not chase away minorities

They have, the GOP controlled house has passed several budget bills and other legislation that would help minorites, Reid has not let a single bill get to the floor of the senate for a vote.

The ACA was passed without any open discussion, no GOP amendments were allowed to reach the floor for vote. They had many good ideas, but the dems blocked them and forced a terrible piece of legislation up the collective asses of americans.

No, the GOP did nothing of the sort.

No, I remember Boehner debating it on the floor.

So: stop the lying.

 

[daveman]

Since we are talking about the need for the GOP to build a coalition

Republicans have elected six (yes six) black Congressmen, Senators, Governors, Presidents in the last 100 years

Some coalition

And yet reality tells a different tale, as it so often does when progressives claim something.

Tea Party Fuels Surge of Minorities Into Office - NationalJournal.com

After the 2010 wave election, Republicans saw the number of minorities in their ranks in Congress and governors’ mansions jump from three to 14. And most of these candidates, from Rep. Tim Scott and Gov. Nikki Haley in South Carolina to Rep. Raul Labrador in Idaho, caught a tailwind of antiestablishment fervor.​

Now go ahead and say the non-black minorities don't count. You know you want to.

 

[daveman]

Your characterization of the DNC could be fairly applied to the GOP. Two factions. Tea Party radicals and the Country club pro-business set. Neither of which will benefit the vast majority of working class American households. And, oddly enough, neither GOP faction seems interested in reaching out to an ever changing demographic. How does that bode for the future of the GOP?

thats simply not true. Marco Rubio, Alan West, Nicky Haley, Deneen Borelli, Thomas Sowell, Bobby Jindal, just to name a few minorities in the GOP.

the future of the GOP is very bright, full of smart people with good ideas and a good understand of what freedom and the constitution are all about.

the continual demonization by the left just shows how deep their fear of the GOP really is.

Doesn't address the problem that minorities refuse to vote for the GOP. It comes down to more than minority faces and depends on GOP positions that chase minorities away

Until the GOP learns that America has changed, they will remain a party for older, white, christian males

Exodus: Inner City Blacks Fleeing Barack Obama and the Democrat-Liberal Agenda

Paul McKinley, an outspoken Chicago resident and voice against liberal-Chicago-machine politics, Rahm Emanuel, and President Obama, spoke to me directly about the ongoing violence in the black community, explaining, “the real cause of violence in the community is caused by narco-terrorism facilitated by Chicago’s liberal-sanctuary-city status, in addition to the historically high unemployment rate among black men between of working age,” which he claims is never addressed by the President and comes last, if at all, in the liberal agenda.

McKinley points to a Univiersity of Wisconsin Milwaukee “Race and Male Employment in the Wake of the Great Recession” study, which found that for the 40-year time span between 1970 and 2010 the employment rate of black males between 16-64 years old has fallen by 28% to 55% in the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas. Over these 40 years, he claims his community, the “poor-black community,” has been controlled and devastated by black Democrats implementing a “white-liberal agenda.” He specifically points to the President’s policy of putting issues such as same-sex marriage and amnesty for illegal aliens in front of the struggling black community and curbing violence.

McKinley says boldly, “There is no Tea Party in my community, there is no Republicans in my community, so they can’t blame Republicans, they can’t [blame] Tea Parties; I can only blame the democrat-liberal agenda.”​

That's what happens when you take people for granted.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

They do, but your repeated talking point is noted.

The GOP wants opportunity for working americans

The Dems want welfare for working americans

You don't have to convince me, you have to convince the voters

Right now, Republicans are doing a pretty poor job of convincing voters that they are not only for the rich

Again.....the whole complicit media spreading the DNC talking points. It's hard to counter when they only tell one side of the story.

Yet more deflection and idiocy from the right.

The voters don’t believe you; they’re not interested in republicans lying about the ‘liberal media’; they don’t want to hear republicans whining about how 'unfair' everything is, how republicans are perpetual victims, forever at the mercy of the ‘evil liberal elite.’

That voters reject all things republican has nothing to do with ‘the media,’ voters hear the republican message loud and clear – they’re hearing the GOP’s message and they are rejecting it.

 

[daveman]

You don't have to convince me, you have to convince the voters

Right now, Republicans are doing a pretty poor job of convincing voters that they are not only for the rich

Again.....the whole complicit media spreading the DNC talking points. It's hard to counter when they only tell one side of the story.

Yet more deflection and idiocy from the right.

The voters don’t believe you; they’re not interested in republicans lying about the ‘liberal media’; they don’t want to hear republicans whining about how 'unfair' everything is, how republicans are perpetual victims, forever at the mercy of the ‘evil liberal elite.’

That voters reject all things republican has nothing to do with ‘the media,’ voters hear the republican message loud and clear – they’re hearing the GOP’s message and they are rejecting it.

...except when the Republican wins; then it's a "stolen election!!"

Right?

 

[Euroconservativ]

Since we are talking about the need for the GOP to build a coalition

Republicans have elected six (yes six) black Congressmen, Senators, Governors, Presidents in the last 100 years

Some coalition

I thought the GOP went nuts in the last few years. That's what liberals say. OK, it was 100 years ago...

 

[JimH52]

Keep the far right, but reach out sincerely to women, Hispanics, and minorities.

How do you do that with the Tea Party?