alan1
Gold Member
I have been thinking about doing this post for a long time, and really didn't know how to approach it. I know those on the left will use it as a tool to bash those on the right, but that would be a mistake. This is what I think the Republicans need to do in order to win national elections.
1. Be Inclusive. The message should always be the Republican Party represents all people, whether they are currently voting for you are not. It is completely stupid to me that Blacks vote 95% Democrat, particularly when you see what the Democrats have not done for blacks over the years...but you cannot concede any vote, and you have to reach out to everyone.
2. Stop With the Nutty Social Agenda. America is a center/right Country. Americans are generally tolerant people. If you are strongly Christian and those values inform your life, that's great. But not everyone sees the world the way you do, and not everyone wants your values shoved down their throat. When the Republican Party becomes about sticking wands up a woman's vagina, and talking about "legitimate rape," you've lost just about everyone in America.
3. Don't be So Rigid Ideologically. Stop with the RINO bullshit. Ideologically pure candidates have never gotten elected to National office. Dennis Kucinich anyone? Republicans have always stood for limited Government, self-reliance, a strong national defense, and fiscal responsibility. That should encompass a big tent. Stop excluding people because they are not pure enough. That is crazy and stupid. A guy like Peter King fits that definition. Chris Christie fits that definition. Lindsey Graham fits that definition. If they are not pure enough for you...consider the alternative. Obummer or Hillary? Get off your high horse.
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4. You have to be about More than Hating Obama. Let me be clear. I hate fucking Obama. He is the worst President in my lifetime. His policies are destroying America. I loathe the man. Many of you feel the same way. However, the Republican Party needs to be about more than Hating Obama. While the hatred is justified...you have to present a positive alternative or it just comes across as bitter and spiteful.
Okay folks. That's it. Have fun tearing this apart.
1. Be Inclusive. Lets treat everybody the same. I think that is about inclusive as you can get. Why focus on ethnicity, gender, skin color, religion or any other factor. It's not about "leveling the playing field", it's about everybody playing by the same rules.
2. Stop With the Nutty Social Agenda. Are you serious? How about the social agenda of shoving homosexuality down my throat? How about the democrat social agenda of telling me I should support welfare queens (your user name)? How about the social agenda that illegal immigrants be granted amnesty? I remember the Reagan Amnesty, it also included enforced border security that never happened.
3. Don't be So Rigid Ideologically. What is wrong with believing in ones ideas and principles? The democrats certainly do that. The simple fact that Republicans and Democrats have differing ideas and principles doesn't make the Democrat ideas and principles better. The Democrats are just as rigid ideologically as the Republicans.
4. You have to be about More than Hating Obama. It's not hate, it's a difference of opinion. Claiming it is hate is a straw man argument, because it really is a difference of opinion.
I'm not a Republican. I left the Republicans when they became "liberal light" and abandoned conservatism.
I'm atheist, so my conservatism isn't based upon any religious teachings.
I really don't give a shit if homosexuals want to be treated the same as heterosexuals (see point #1 about treating everybody the same).
Medical science, law and common sense have determined the end of life to be the absence of brainwaves, lets use the same standard for defining the beginning of life vis a vis abortion.
It's not my responsibility to financially support another person via forced taxation upon me. Let me choose where my charity is spent.
Federal involvement in education is idiotic and moronic. The educational needs of a New York City urban child are vastly different than the needs of a kid growing up on a corn farm in Iowa. By the way, not every child is cut out to be a professional, so they don't all deserve a college education. We need plumbers and carpet layers just like we need doctors and accountants.
We should all be able to protect our property and our families. Nobody would be dumb enough to tell me I can't have a fire extinguisher in my home but that I have to rely on the fire department were a fire to start, so why would anybody be dumb enough to tell me I can't have a gun to protect myself from some crazy that might try and rob me or harm a family member?
Don't even get me started on progressive tax rates.
Anybody that wants my vote needs to start acting with common sense, not by promising to take care of me or others from cradle to grave by handing out monies or subsidies. In Darwinism, the weak fail and die off, that leaves the species stronger.
