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GOP: R.I.P.?

SteveL2 Wrote: Jan 29, 2013 10:44 AM

You totally missed the point of this article. The GOP will never win elections on negativity. The GOP was the party of reform and new ideas--welfare reform, education reform, rebuilding our nation's defenses. Now it's become the party of "just say no": Do something about immigration? No. Do something about health care? No. Do something about poverty in America? No. Defending the status quo while hoping to blast the Dems into defeat is never going to work. Never.

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GOP: R.I.P.?

Some political commentators are dancing on what they believe to be the grave of the Republican Party, claiming that the only way the GOP can have a viable future is for them to behave like Democrats.

Last weekend, National Review magazine sponsored a "conservative summit" in Washington. They should have held it elsewhere.

Prior to speaking at that event, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal addressed the Republican National Committee's annual winter meeting in Charlotte, N.C., where he proposed a new strategy for Republicans and conservatives that begins, not in Washington, but at the state level.

Jindal said the Republican Party loses when...

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