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By The Christian Science Monitor
Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:42 EST
Perhaps trying to eke some mojo out of the city where the Democrats held their successful convention last year, the Republican National Committee came out of a three-day meeting in Charlotte, N.C., this week with a blueprint for what the dispirited party hopes is a way out of the post-election weeds.
The meeting confirmed what most Americans can see plainly: The Party of Lincoln is having a crisis of confidence. The failure of Mitt Romney to connect deeply enough to win a race against a vulnerable Democratic incumbent shook the party establishment, which is already dealing with a powerful internecine and absolutist revolt from right-wingers in the guise of the tea party.
For Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, the battle is to reach out to new demographics and beef up the party's moribund ground game, but also to shift the conversation away from "government bookkeeping" to dinner table dilemmas all while remaining relevant against an attempt by President Obama to, in effect, "pulverize" the party, in the words of Slate columnist John Dickerson.
Though many Republicans believe the cure is for the party to run even harder on fiscal principles lower taxes, lower spending, give me liberty or give me death it may well be the party's success in breaking out its "older white guy" mold that defines its fortunes in 2014 and beyond, and calibrates it for battles with Obama that are likely to define America for generations.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/27/can-republicans-get-their-act-together-before-obama-pulverizes-the-right/
union_maid
(3,502 posts)Says America remains a center right country when it comes to gun control and abortion. I don't think so. But hey, if the GOP thinks so - well, they should proceed on that premise.
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)always talking big, always spewing vitriol, always babbling about picking yourself up the your bootstraps and rugged indiidualism, while out of the other side of the mouth crying and playing the victim.
vinny9698
(1,016 posts)How can you sugar coat the cutting of food stamps for children with tax subsidies for big oil? Good luck with selling that agenda.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I can live with a little conservative ideals if they will improve the American citizen's lot in life.
But right now they're as far as possible from that. They're actually un-American.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]"Can Republicans get their act together before Obama pulverizes the right?
Answer: Hopefully not!
avebury
(10,952 posts)take over more and more states they will not fade into oblivion.
As to President Obama "pulverizing" the Republicans I just don't see it. Democrats cave into the temper tantrums of the Republicans way too often.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Good enemies are hard to find.