The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.
The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who’s been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.
The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
The Republican Party does not reach out.
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we’re not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
I’m out of the Republican Party. I’m fed up.
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
The Republican Party I represented proudly for 18 years did not shy away from taking on special-interest money when it conflicted with constituents’ needs.
I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.
I’ve been left to wonder if it’s the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it’s a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.
The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.
The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over – and then of those conservatives in turn being ousted by those even further to the right.
You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.
We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever – that’s a bunch of baloney. We’re the party that believes in free markets.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can’t relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.
Sure, there’s a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It’s an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.
For a period of time, my grandmother, Lenore Romney, and my mother, Ronna Romney, were the only two women in the Republican Party to ever secure the nomination for Senate. And they were leaders. They were pioneers in our party.
I’m here to say enough is enough, and that folks who look like me should feel that there is an opportunity for them in the Republican Party. I’m proud to be in this party, I’m proud to be endorsed by President Trump.
The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land to farm. Ultimately, the GOP abolished slavery, then gave freedmen the vote so they could protect their own economic interests.
While their fiscal views aren’t mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?
One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we’re too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can’t compromise on your core principles.
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.
I don’t think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party… I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don’t trust him.
At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
I think the Republican party should be a broad party.
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.
I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party that sought the abolition of slavery.
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or ‘Daddy,’ Party.
The Republican Party just isn’t held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.
I’m proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
I want to be a representative of what I hope will be a future bigger and broader Republican party.
Ron Paul’s CPAC appearances perfectly captured the nature and limits of his political appeal. His libertarian message, non-interventionist views and devotion to the gold standard attracted a sizable, committed following, but many of the true-believers weren’t actually part of the Republican Party.
Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other arenas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.
Most people don’t know who Ken Mehlman is. He’s the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he’s doing that Howard Dean isn’t doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.
I’m on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don’t think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni’s ‘Pinocchio’ that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi’s fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
I took on the leader of the globalist agenda, the leader of the Republican Party, the Koch brothers.
We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.
The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today’s Republican party with America’s traditional rule of law. It has become a constitutional imperative.
The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.
