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Posted: Mar 18, 2013

I would love to see Republicans start "caring" about women, Hispanics and gays, but how are they going to get that across while voting against these groups?

For example, how can the Republican party possibly get more gay votes when they continually shoot down gay marriage?

From the project:

The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself. We have become expert in how to provide

ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be

persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue

The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself. We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue.

Lovely verbage on this one, BTW:

As one conservative, Tea-Party leader, Dick Armey, told us, “You can’t call someone ugly and expect them to go to the prom with you. We’ve chased the Hispanic voter out of his natural home.

Reading this project, it looks like it's going to be an excellent time to be Hispanic in the Republican party--look for more prominent Hispanic leaderships in the near future (pg 16).

This should be interesting...we all know how much the right <3's the NAACP...

Establish a presence in African American communities and at black organizations such as the NAACP.

I haven't read the whole thing and will probably never get around to it, but I'd say I agree with *most* of it. I just don't understand how Republicans are going to do half of what they aspire when their policies won't support their efforts.

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The GOP's unwillingness to woo non-white conservatives - this election was a real eye-opener

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for me. Over more than a year of campaigning they literally chose to take the big chance of losing (they can read demographics) rather than change, and in fact made insulting and abusing Hispanics and blacks especially a major part of their campaign message.

Of course, we all knew that a certain portion of the GOP is strongly driven by bigotry, but what about all the others? Even after losing, though, when I listened to all the major leadership groups discuss why, most groups still insisted that there is no need for real change at all. That's when I finally realized just how strong a part of the GOP's identity being the white party was. Not just because of bigotry among some, but because of the profound change that would require of people who, by definition, really don't like change. It's time to say goodbye to the Ozzie-and-Harriet America that was never real, and it's apparently very hard for them.

Dick Army represents the few who are having really tough sledding pushing the painful reality that they're out of luck. Just look at CPAC this last week. This was the elephant in the room being so determinedly ignored at that convention. As Sarah Palin so hypocritically epitomized it, "We're not here to put a fresh coat of rhetorical paint on our party." Yes, with the help of a couple of tokens here and there, that's just what they did there.

Will start to hear more acceptance from Repbs. now. - Jeb Bush on GOP

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Whether it's sincere or not, I don't know. But necessity is forcing them to open their eyes and look around at America.

An article on Jeb Bush's thoughts on the GOP, complete with mullet picture.

""Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker, and the list goes on and on and on," Bush said."

""I'm here to tell you there is no 'us' or 'them.' The face of the Republican Party needs to be the face of every American, and we need to be the party of inclusion and acceptance," Bush said to loud applause."

Well,I think/hope you're right. At some point "the base" - as it's currently oriented is going to

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cause more trouble to the big-money interests than it helps, and then it will have to change--or be changed.

The big money establishment's problem is that they trained a very large pack of attack dogs who thought all conservatives were on the same team and that they'd be taken care of. Instead the base find themselves hurting and poor, not understanding what happened, and they're very angry and frightened and not so willing as before to just behave orders--in this case to stand down. They need to strike out, but biting the hand that pulls the strings (SO regretfully) is still out of the question for them.

That said, much as I disapprove of giving office to elite families, I do suspect that Jeb Bush's voice represents the future of the GOP leadership. At least it's official face.

Republicans secret to success - sound and act more like Democrats

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Jeb already has that reasonable, rather discuss than attack" - mode, and he's no liberal. nm

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Yes, I agree with you regarding his reasonable - sm

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"mode," but after two UNFUNDED wars, one of choice, by his brother, I couldn't ever trust another Bush again.

As George W. so "eloquently" said, "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/georgewbush/a/top10bushisms.htm

I agree. I've always despised political "dynasties" - and voted against them.

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This is literally all the way from pre-adolescence--when I resented the press referring to the Kennedys as America's "royal family." Egalitarian to the bone apparently, and no doubt I'll die that way. :)

And LOL for W. That's actually one of my favorite quotes!

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