Time to Change

[Wry Catcher]

IMO, the GOP needs to refine their message, put a sock in the mouth of Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann and other radicals (hell, even Fox recognized that Sarah Palin was a liability) and put forth a sane agenda. One where a fiscally conservative policy can accomplish a reduction in the deficit without doing harm and begin to lower the debt.

Trying to do so in one year is insane.

The GOP needs to become more pragmatic and much less dogmatic. Guns and Gays; God and Taxes are not tools to exploit the voters, they are real issues which impact the freedom and security of all Americans and deserve to be debated pragmatically, honestly and openly.

Today the GOP seems focused on changing their image only; they must begin to purge from their ranks those whose rhetoric is dominated by bigotry, racism and hate and covet those who really believe:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Efforts by the GOP to change the rules of elections solely to regain power is reprehensible. It's time the leadership within the GOP change, one which represents that all Americans have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not only the few, the wealthy and the powerful.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans have no difficulty in rapidly and effectively silencing those Republicans who voice non-doctrinal opinions on issues like gay rights, climate change or abortion. Those Republicans are quickly punished

Yet, when the radical fringe spouts rhetoric like Dems are commies, women are sluts, abortion needs to be banned in all cases......the party shrugs and says "nothing we can do

 

[Ringel05]

Time to Change

Later, if I decide to go out.......

 

[Wry Catcher]

Time to Change

Later, if I decide to go out.......

Depends? I see.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

IMO, the GOP needs to refine their message, put a sock in the mouth of Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann and other radicals (hell, even Fox recognized that Sarah Palin was a liability) and put forth a sane agenda. One where a fiscally conservative policy can accomplish a reduction in the deficit without doing harm and begin to lower the debt.

Trying to do so in one year is insane.

The GOP needs to become more pragmatic and much less dogmatic. Guns and Gays; God and Taxes are not tools to exploit the voters, they are real issues which impact the freedom and security of all Americans and deserve to be debated pragmatically, honestly and openly.

Today the GOP seems focused on changing their image only; they must begin to purge from their ranks those whose rhetoric is dominated by bigotry, racism and hate and covet those who really believe:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Efforts by the GOP to change the rules of elections solely to regain power is reprehensible. It's time the leadership within the GOP change, one which represents that all Americans have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not only the few, the wealthy and the powerful.

Agreed.

But it seems impossible to communicate that to republicans, who seem to only want to kill the messenger.

They adhere so blindly to conservative dogma, and have become so hyper-partisan, that they’ll always refuse to debate the issues in an objective, factual manner.

Indeed, their rhetoric will often involve only complaining about how ‘terrible’ democrats are.

Take for example, and as a contrast, the proposed AWB by Dianne Feinstein, a cause near and dear to liberals. As we all know this will fail to pass in the Senate. Unlike their republican counterparts, democrats who vote against the AWB won’t have to worry about being ‘primaried’ by the ‘extreme radical left,’ they won’t be pilloried by the ‘liberal media,’ there is no liberal Rush Limbaugh, the Torquemada of our times, to prosecute and burn at the stake heretical liberals.

It is true that republicans can’t change things around in one year, or two, for that matter; but it’s perfectly reasonable for them to change things around by 2016, as democrats successfully did between 1988 and 1992.

 

[Truthmatters]

the only way the republican party gets better is if they heave this base.

This base is unhinged.

 

[Ringel05]

Time to Change

Later, if I decide to go out.......

Depends? I see.

Not yet...... for quite a while......

 

[Ringel05]

the only way the republican party gets better is if they heave this base.

This base is unhinged.