What we found out in the last election is very simple.


NO ONE is going to vote against Santa Claus

The GOP can do whatever it feels it needs to do, and if there are elections post Obama, it will probably have limited success.

So what?

The problem isn't the GOP. It's the electorate.

We are reaping the results of over a half century of dumbed down (intentionally) education.

Enjoy!

Quote: Justme wrote in post #1

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The Republican National Committee released earlier on Monday an “autopsy” of its 2012 election failures and pinned the blame on the party being out of touch with voters, particularly minorities.

Limbaugh said the opposite was true. “We are in touch with the founding of this country. We are in touch with the greatness in this country and its people,” the popular radio commentator said, according to Politico.

Limbaugh said that if the party moves away from championing values, such as traditional marriage, it will lose support among its base.

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #6

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The GOP can do whatever it feels it needs to do, and if there are elections post Obama, it will probably have limited success.

So what?

The problem isn't the GOP. It's the electorate.

We are reaping the results of over a half century of dumbed down (intentionally) education.

Enjoy!

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #9

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #6

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The GOP can do whatever it feels it needs to do, and if there are elections post Obama, it will probably have limited success.

So what?

The problem isn't the GOP. It's the electorate.

We are reaping the results of over a half century of dumbed down (intentionally) education.

Enjoy!

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Too bad Reagan didn't shut down the cabinet position of the Department of Education as he promised in his 1980 campaign; also too bad the GOP didn't defund it when they ruled the house. What a difference this would have made.


For anyone who is interested in more on education's decline, you can read Charlotte Iserbyt:
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pag..._downloads.html

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf

or John Gatto:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com

An Underground History of American Education:
http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf

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As I see it, there are two possibilities for the GOP going forward - the "easy" way and the "hard" way.

The hard way is be to be honest with itself and stake out what it stands for. Hopefully, what it stands for includes promoting smaller government and more individual freedom. Something akin to that quaint old document, the Constitution, perhaps.

Once the GOP has done that, it should realize it is not only the opposition party to the dems but it is also opposed by the state-run media, popular culture and the intelligentsia. So ti means its positions are not going to be the "default" positions. It will be necessary to the GOP to do some educating.

Educate the electorate as to what "conservatism" is. Educate the electorate as to why conservatism is preferable to statism. Educate the electorate as to why individual rights are preferable to collective rights? And so on.

That's the hard way.

The easy way? Take the advice of statists and democrats, and move to the center. Give everyone 90 percent or so of what the democrats promise.

Any guesses as to which way - easy or hard - the GOP will choose?

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #12

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As I see it, there are two possibilities for the GOP going forward - the "easy" way and the "hard" way.

The hard way is be to be honest with itself and stake out what it stands for. Hopefully, what it stands for includes promoting smaller government and more individual freedom. Something akin to that quaint old document, the Constitution, perhaps.

Once the GOP has done that, it should realize it is not only the opposition party to the dems but it is also opposed by the state-run media, popular culture and the intelligentsia. So ti means its positions are not going to be the "default" positions. It will be necessary to the GOP to do some educating.

Educate the electorate as to what "conservatism" is. Educate the electorate as to why conservatism is preferable to statism. Educate the electorate as to why individual rights are preferable to collective rights? And so on.

That's the hard way.

The easy way? Take the advice of statists and democrats, and move to the center. Give everyone 90 percent or so of what the democrats promise.

Any guesses as to which way - easy or hard - the GOP will choose?

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #8

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #6

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The problem isn't the GOP. It's the electorate.

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Amen and bravo!

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #12

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #11

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As I see it, there are two possibilities for the GOP going forward - the "easy" way and the "hard" way.

The hard way is be to be honest with itself and stake out what it stands for. Hopefully, what it stands for includes promoting smaller government and more individual freedom. Something akin to that quaint old document, the Constitution, perhaps.

Once the GOP has done that, it should realize it is not only the opposition party to the dems but it is also opposed by the state-run media, popular culture and the intelligentsia. So ti means its positions are not going to be the "default" positions. It will be necessary to the GOP to do some educating.

Educate the electorate as to what "conservatism" is. Educate the electorate as to why conservatism is preferable to statism. Educate the electorate as to why individual rights are preferable to collective rights? And so on.

That's the hard way.

The easy way? Take the advice of statists and democrats, and move to the center. Give everyone 90 percent or so of what the democrats promise.

Any guesses as to which way - easy or hard - the GOP will choose?

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There are a few of us who feel that the GOP apparatus has been taking the easy route for some time now. The '08 and '12 election cycles come to mind.

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