Obama’s claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
For decades, the GOP has faithfully served the rich, corporations, polluters and purveyors of pure, unadulterated greed, and brought blue-collar white voters along for the ride with promises of cultural revival.
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America’s young people, ‘We be thugs.’ The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.
There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.
Why do Tea Party backers oppose abortion at higher rates than their traditional GOP cohort? Religion.
We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.
Here’s the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history.
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it’s hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.
The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don’t support Republicans is because they don’t trust the GOP establishment.
The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.
A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.
One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.
I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan’s anti-government diatribes and ‘better days ahead’ rhetoric.
The GOP doesn’t seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
I’ve always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I’d win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I’m still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico.
Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of ‘good purge’ is extremely naive.
I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger.
I don’t think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.
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