What Advice Would YOU Give the GOP?

To win the nomination, Romney moved far to the right. During the general election he tried to move more towards the middle but nobody believed his positions on things since he changed them.

In my opinion the right is less force wile the left is more force so every issue is separate from others. Then we see that ending the war on drugs is less force so its actually right wing. and banning gay marriage is more force so its very left wing. The christian right or social conservatives are the left wingers of the party.
 
If you want to appeal to more voters, move more towards the middle, not towards the right. "Reagan Conservatives" would have been considered Liberals or Moderates today.

This is a tired media narrrative that needs to die. Romney is at the very least just like Reagan, more likely to the left of Reagan.
 
There has been a lot of talk on this thread about right, middle, center, etc - what are the top policies/plans they need to put in place? Lets be specific, I want to see what it would take to solve this if we were to try and agree on a top 3 or something...
 
There has been a lot of talk on this thread about right, middle, center, etc - what are the top policies/plans they need to put in place? Lets be specific, I want to see what it would take to solve this if we were to try and agree on a top 3 or something...

(1) 10th Amendment Powers Restored to the States - But I don't know how you walk that back without an insurrection of some type.
(2) Restoration of Sound Money and a push towards a balanced budget - another pipedream I might add
(3) A congressional pushback against the Unitary Executive Model

I see these much needed measures as the equivalent to performing open heart surgery on a rotting corpse. It's far too late.
 
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My kindest recommendation would be dissolution.

A less kind one would be for the leadership to go home and shoot themselves.
 
The timing might never be better for the Republican Party to really listen to feedback on changes the party needs stay relevant in the future. I think there are several core things that Ron Paul supporters, Gary Johnson supporters, the "new" Tea Party, and even establishment Republicans can actually agree on. I am really curious to hear from you guys what you think the core things are? I have boiled my suggestions down to a quick 3 minute video:



Let me know what you guys think!


Well Jeff, everything you say is fine, but you are completely screwed up on one point: your assumptions about what the GOP actually is. They are NOT a party in favor of freedom, fiscal conservatism, or anything else that I would deem good and right. They are the other side of the Democrat coin. They screw you in every hole with which you were born and few new ones they managed to invent.

When talk and action are so utterly disconnected from each other, one cannot take the words seriously in the least measure. That is what the GOP does; it has become the ONLY thing of which they are about, aside from being heralds of open tyranny. They say what they think you want to hear and then do the exact opposite. Reagan went on endlessly about small government as that very entity blew up to theretofore unimaginable and unprecedented proportions... and it's been a runaway freight train ever since.

If you think that the GOP has any interest in what you think or have to say, it is my sad duty to advise you to lay off the banana peels and corn silk. Neither they nor the jackasses give the least damn about anything you might think or want, particularly if it does not accord strongly with their vision of the perfect world. You and I are not so much as a grease stain on the highway to these people. Make all the recommendations you want, but know well that you are wasting your breath. They will not be taking you up on anything.

I may be wrong, and hope that I am, but the atmosphere has a feeling of end-game hovering about and if this is so and if my sense of timing is not completely lousy, in four more years or perhaps another decade at most, it will no longer matter if the GOP exists because they will have served their ultimate purpose of keeping roughly 1/2 of the American fools chasing the false promises of better times and restored freedoms as the hegemony of US tyranny was being cemented into grandiose and perhaps unbreakable solidity before their very eyes.

Let us be candid now: just how unfathomably stoopid does one have to be to go decade after decade hearing the precise same promises made - talk of apples apples apples while doing oranges oranges oranges without coming to the firm conclusion that one is not only being lied to, but done so in an aggravatingly transparent, ham-fisted, and artless way? Seriously, most Americans have all the cause in the world for terminal embarrassment where their politics are concerned. It's not even remotely funny or excusable anymore.
 
My advice would be to, for once, do something about the reputation that Republicans are racist woman haters. That is the current meme, and yet they don't seem to be trying to fix that.
 
Well Jeff, everything you say is fine, but you are completely screwed up on one point: your assumptions about what the GOP actually is. They are NOT a party in favor of freedom, fiscal conservatism, or anything else that I would deem good and right. They are the other side of the Democrat coin. They screw you in every hole with which you were born and few new ones they managed to invent.

I guess this is exactly my point - I believe the GOP will ultimately actually HAVE to become what they claim they are or they are not likely to win an election in the future. I do agree with your points about them being reluctant to listen or actually change anything, but the one thing they DO seem to understand is loss of power and the more that happens the more they will be forced to do something different.
 
I guess this is exactly my point - I believe the GOP will ultimately actually HAVE to become what they claim they are or they are not likely to win an election in the future. I do agree with your points about them being reluctant to listen or actually change anything, but the one thing they DO seem to understand is loss of power and the more that happens the more they will be forced to do something different.

Unfortunately that something different seems to be becoming more like the democrats.
 
My advice would be to, for once, do something about the reputation that Republicans are racist woman haters. That is the current meme, and yet they don't seem to be trying to fix that.

Think you are onto something here. It was incredible that during the GOP nominiee debates there was a discussion of the evils of contarception. Talk about stepping backwards 60 years.
 
My advice would be to, for once, do something about the reputation that Republicans are racist woman haters. That is the current meme, and yet they don't seem to be trying to fix that.
This is something the RP movement has to address as well. The RP movement is actually worse at attracting women and being labeled racist, than the general GOP.
 
This is something the RP movement has to address as well. The RP movement is actually worse at attracting women and being labeled racist, than the general GOP.

This is a good point too. The freedom message should be popular across all demographics but it seems white males are the majority of who we are engaging these days. Im not sure if its a "branding" problem or if some of us are no better than the GOP when it comes to women's issues or racism.
 
Think you are onto something here. It was incredible that during the GOP nominiee debates there was a discussion of the evils of contarception. Talk about stepping backwards 60 years.

It was unbelievable. GOP nominees around the country were coming off as narrow-minded and judgmental, which led to a less than desirable result for the party.

This is something the RP movement has to address as well. The RP movement is actually worse at attracting women and being labeled racist, than the general GOP.

I agree, we need to work on correcting people better and not letting them fall for the media's misrepresentation of what we are all about. People don't seem to understand that it is about freedom and liberty for ALL, they just know about things like letting racists run their businesses how they see fit and other such things. It is a severe lack of understanding that needs to be better explained.
 
Stop trying to alienate or give off the impression that the party wishes to alienate anyone who is not a well off, middle class Anglo Saxon male. While comments like legitimate rape don't stand as representative of the party, the problem is that it gives off a vibe that Republicans fear minorities, women, anything that's different than what it's become used to. The reason pundits spend so much time analyzing the demographic makeup of Republican audiences is because of the growing shift, whereas the Democratic Party looks like a United Colors of Benetton ad. The more extremist views slowly become more mainstream as candidates continually say and have said the wrong things that jeopardized their careers and, by extension, made the Party look bad.
 
advice to the GOP:
stop nominating progressives who supported gun bans,abortion and nation building(remember the battle of Mogadishu?)
 
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