Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

For a little while, it was beginning to seem that the Republicans had a chance of retaking the Senate. Not now.

Nick Gillespie has an interesting analysis of what has happened, and offers the GOP some advice:

Memo to Republicans: If you are perceived as very similar to the Democrats, just more awful when it comes to gender and race, you’re not going to flourish. Your odds of pulling in independents and libertarians who are tired of massive government intrusion on all aspects of our lives would skyrocket if you laid out a governing strategy that accords with what you say you’re all about.

I don’t expect them to listen.


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5 responses to “Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?”

  1. OregonGuy Avatar

    Sadly, too true.

    It happens too often, hearing a Republican saying, “I have this great idea for government to do…”

    I have a great idea. No government planning.
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  2. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    I got a better idea stop telling women they should be forcibly sterilized if they are on welfare arizona republican party official and mormon bishop russel pearce. Women are over half of the voters stop infuriating them or let the white men out of jail so they can vote! Most white men vote republican because obama is black though they would use a different term that starts with “N”.

  3. Bram Avatar
    Bram

    There is something very very wrong with the GOP national leadership.

  4. Randy Avatar

    Far too many Republicans resemble Captain Ahab of Moby Dick fame. Their dogged pursuit of their socially conservative agenda blinds them from political reality.

    IMO, there are opportunities for the Right to capitalize upon, but to do so means they must put the pet issues of the social conservatives on the back burner and focus on issues that have wide-spread appeal. But the politically inept so-cons aren’t willing to do so.

    The sad truth of the matter is that the GOP’s efforts to woo evangelical voters was too successful. Now these religious zealots have the GOP by the short hairs and the Party can’t pivot away from so-conism without alienating these voters. And these so-con voters won’t wake up to the fact that they are a political minority and that their issues have no wide-spread appeal. The GOP is the Stuck on Stupid Party.

  5. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    the democrat party wants you to join the big tent even if your right to life pa.sen. casey or pro gun wv sen. manchin. Republican party looks to chase out heretics (rinos) every day gop gets smaller democrats gets more into big tent “but obama is black and is a muslim born in kenya!” only works for the people already adherents not the people in the middle who decide elections