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Rand Paul: GOP Must "Evolve"

Anonymous908 Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 1:48 PM

He is right. The GOP is unpopular. We must be open to change if we want to win the presidency or anything else again. From my perspective some of the things keeping independents and democrats from joining the GOP are the following: - sense that the GOP doesn't live up to it's "fiscal conservatism" - sense that the GOP is pro-every war, everytime - sense that the GOP favors the rich and dislikes minorities My opinion is that the GOP leadership needs to do more than pay lip service to fiscal responsibility. It needs to lead the way to balanced budgets. The GOP needs to favor small tactical military opperations in key places over huge, drawn out, no win occupations that quite frankly the majority of Americans disagree with.

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JustMC Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 12:35 AM

Exactly right, well said. (I would add to your list, the GOP must pay more than lip service to limiting government's jurisdiction and defending the Bill of Rights.)

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Rand Paul: GOP Must "Evolve"

Rising GOP star Rand Paul made some surprising comments about his own party in an interview on Sunday, acknowledging the GOP's recent public image struggles and the need for a kind of evolution.

Speaking to a New York City radio station, Paul said "we are not popular" while pointedly noting the party's struggles in New England and on the west coast.

"We think the Republican Party needs to evolve and adapt, or we are going to become a permanent minority party... we think a little more of a libertarian Republican, someone who is a strict...

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