How do you think the Republican party will regroup during the coming years?
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at
12:38 pm
Will they try to go back to the Reagan mantra of small government? drugs online Will they rely on social conservatism? Will there be a new emphasis?
What do you think?
Thanks to Karl Rove, they’ve invited the social conservatives into the party to win elections. Now they can’t be ignored…they think that the government should be pushing their social issues.
This, in turn, has turned off the moderates…the "Goldwater" conservatives..who believe in small government and no intervention into the personal lives of the citizens (gay marriage, abortion, ect)
I really am interested to see what turn to party takes. I certainly don’t think the social conservatives are going to give up their agenda. Your going to see candidates like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin going up against more moderates candidates. So it’ll be a battle between the homeschooling evangelicals and the corporate moderates.
I hope they can real work this time. for the country
not for the golf .
suport the president . and make the job what we pay for
There are already numerous Republicans stepping up and saying the party must stop the spending wildly. Stop the idea that a wrong is okay just because the other side did it too and it was much worse than what they did. I think in the coming years, we will see them regroup and come out stronger than ever.
No, they are too fractured and too busy fighting among themselves to be any kind of force for a long time to come. They are basically a joke now, and will soon be just a footnote in American history.
I think they will regroup and come back more Conservative. Moderates like McCain can’t win. They’re not different enough from the democrats. I hope they listen to the people and not the media next time.
Small government and no compromises. Screw bipartasinship; look where that got us!
The Repub’s should regroup during Obama’s reign of terror, but thanks to his incompetence, they won’t have to do much to regain the White House in 2012.
Of course they will regroup. 8 years of Bush & the pendulum swings the other way. Is that really a surprise? In 4 or 8 years people will be tired of the Dem’s screwing it all up.
Republicans will have to wait until the Democrats have addressed and resolved our current economic problems. Then when most Americans are feeling comfortable again, Republicans will promote some irrelevant but emotionally-charged wedge issue. They will also start chanting their usual conservative mantras that bear little relation to the realities of modern society but that sound good to the ideologues and the gullible.
I’m guessing they’ll retreat further into the whacko religious right "base" in the next election, lose, and then move back towards the center in the one after that. Much as the Democrats did after the failures of the Jesse Jackson years, when it became apparent that they’d lost middle class voters by focusing exclusively on the plight of the poor.
They should become what they were founded on, and that, was Adam Smith’s classic liberalism.
There policies have been a disaster to the US, from 2001 to 2006, they had complete control of the White House and Congress, yet regressed into a recession, and now many companies are collapsing because of their policies. The Republicans are gonna have to better choose who they nominate to represent their party. The choices that they make, sometimes just seem to be politicians that can easily be manipulated and controlled. They need a thinker, who will question what the heads of GOP want passed. I think the republicans will have to wait a long time, if Obama can do any good in his first 4 years.
Why are you worried about the republicans all of a sudden? Guilty conscience? Or realizing the grave mistakes you just made.
Granted the republicans have some serious issues. But to pull what’s been done? It seems too damn many have the inability to think logically about anything.
Trying to teach them a lesson i guess? I’m afraid the real lesson will be learned by you and those just like you.