CaGOPatriot
Craig Williams
Despite the neoconservatives beliefs, the Republican Party works exclusively for Big Business and the one percent. Except for the economically moot issues of being anti-choice, pro-gun, and convincing the Christian right that God speaks to the GOP, the chief focus of Republicans holding office is to protect the profits the very rich and find ways to make these profits grow.
For some reason Rand Paul believes the Republican Party must reinvent itself, and to do this they must connect with the Facebook generation. Paul wants the GOP to lead the fight in decriminalizing drug use, which is something Christian faith could not allow. Also, poor, naive Rand wants the GOP to go into the inner cities and shout at the top of their lungs "we are the party of jobs and opportunity. The GOP is the ticket to the middle class."
To Paul this all sounds great, but to the rank and file neoconservative voters it smacks of affirmative action and liberalism.
It would be a questionable boon to the GOP if they could convince minorities it was true, but given their devotion to Big Business and the super rich, the Republicans could never deliver the jobs, the opportunities, or the ticket to the middle class. This inability of the GOP would be exposed immediately after their first win helped by minorities who briefly believed in the empty Republican promises.
Add to the perception that the GOP was embracing affirmative action, by decriminalizing of drugs, far more neocon voters would join the Tea Party than minority voters would turn their support to the Republicans. This shows Rand Pauls idea to be the folly it is.
The many, many misconceptions conservatives and neoconservatives hold for minorities has them believing are all stupid, unskilled, and lazy. This unchangeable mindset will work against the Republicans, because any overtures to these groups by the GOP will be patently insincere.
Presently, the Democrats are able to exploit the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and some disabled veterans by keeping entitlements in place that allow these groups to maintain a meager but tentative level of life. But the Democratic Party is nothing more than a coalition of factions, the Blue Dogs that are just GOP lite, the centrists, the liberal, and extreme liberals. These groups, although identifying themselves as Democrats, actually agree on very few issues. However, when the Republicans are in power, they can usually count on the Blue Dogs and the centrists to vote for most Republican bills, and against any proposed by their more liberal Congressional brethren.
Boehner and McConnell need only maintain the GNOP obstructionism until 2014, and by then the voters will be convinced it is time for a change. They will have forgotten why the country has been in a recession for over six years, and they wont remember how the debt rose to such levels. With their victory in 2014, the Republicans will set the stage for a resounding comeback in 2016.
They will have the sound majority in Congress with the Blue Dog and centrist Democrats rubberstamping all Republican sponsored legislation. It will be a repeat of the Bush/Cheney years.
There are powerful individuals at the very top of the one percent that, for many years, have called the shots from behind the scenes. They command the Republican Party, and most other politicians, to do what they are paid to do, which is to look out for the best interests of the very rich. This means Rand Pauls plan is out of the question and the same tired and destructive agenda of Reaganomics the Republican Party has pressed for the past thirty-plus years will stay in place.
However, to maintain voter distraction, the Republican Party, at all levels, must go ahead with their anti-choice, anti-labor, pro-gun movements, and the crusade to get Christian prayer back into government offices and the public school system. With these noisemaking issues keeping what is truly important out of the public eye, the main focus can remain on deregulation, tax cuts, increased defense spending, and the elimination of costly entitlement programs. These are the core issues that keep the neocons voting against their own economic interests, and will allow the conservatives in both parties to keep the income gap widening, the middle class shrinking, and the nation's debt growing.
Sen. Rand Paul calls for new Republican Party - MarketWatch
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For some reason Rand Paul believes the Republican Party must reinvent itself, and to do this they must connect with the Facebook generation. Paul wants the GOP to lead the fight in decriminalizing drug use, which is something Christian faith could not allow. Also, poor, naive Rand wants the GOP to go into the inner cities and shout at the top of their lungs "we are the party of jobs and opportunity. The GOP is the ticket to the middle class."
To Paul this all sounds great, but to the rank and file neoconservative voters it smacks of affirmative action and liberalism.
It would be a questionable boon to the GOP if they could convince minorities it was true, but given their devotion to Big Business and the super rich, the Republicans could never deliver the jobs, the opportunities, or the ticket to the middle class. This inability of the GOP would be exposed immediately after their first win helped by minorities who briefly believed in the empty Republican promises.
Add to the perception that the GOP was embracing affirmative action, by decriminalizing of drugs, far more neocon voters would join the Tea Party than minority voters would turn their support to the Republicans. This shows Rand Pauls idea to be the folly it is.
The many, many misconceptions conservatives and neoconservatives hold for minorities has them believing are all stupid, unskilled, and lazy. This unchangeable mindset will work against the Republicans, because any overtures to these groups by the GOP will be patently insincere.
Presently, the Democrats are able to exploit the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and some disabled veterans by keeping entitlements in place that allow these groups to maintain a meager but tentative level of life. But the Democratic Party is nothing more than a coalition of factions, the Blue Dogs that are just GOP lite, the centrists, the liberal, and extreme liberals. These groups, although identifying themselves as Democrats, actually agree on very few issues. However, when the Republicans are in power, they can usually count on the Blue Dogs and the centrists to vote for most Republican bills, and against any proposed by their more liberal Congressional brethren.
Boehner and McConnell need only maintain the GNOP obstructionism until 2014, and by then the voters will be convinced it is time for a change. They will have forgotten why the country has been in a recession for over six years, and they wont remember how the debt rose to such levels. With their victory in 2014, the Republicans will set the stage for a resounding comeback in 2016.
They will have the sound majority in Congress with the Blue Dog and centrist Democrats rubberstamping all Republican sponsored legislation. It will be a repeat of the Bush/Cheney years.
There are powerful individuals at the very top of the one percent that, for many years, have called the shots from behind the scenes. They command the Republican Party, and most other politicians, to do what they are paid to do, which is to look out for the best interests of the very rich. This means Rand Pauls plan is out of the question and the same tired and destructive agenda of Reaganomics the Republican Party has pressed for the past thirty-plus years will stay in place.
However, to maintain voter distraction, the Republican Party, at all levels, must go ahead with their anti-choice, anti-labor, pro-gun movements, and the crusade to get Christian prayer back into government offices and the public school system. With these noisemaking issues keeping what is truly important out of the public eye, the main focus can remain on deregulation, tax cuts, increased defense spending, and the elimination of costly entitlement programs. These are the core issues that keep the neocons voting against their own economic interests, and will allow the conservatives in both parties to keep the income gap widening, the middle class shrinking, and the nation's debt growing.
Sen. Rand Paul calls for new Republican Party - MarketWatch
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