The problem with the GOP?

Daniel Greenfield attacks the question in his article, Dances With Confused Elephants.

[snip]

The Republican Party doesn't poll poorly with minorities because its party members wear hoods and jump out of cars in minority neighborhoods while shouting "Boo". It polls poorly with minorities because the Democratic Party has built up an extensive infrastructure in minority communities, backed by a national and local media presence.

George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney were not racists, but if you listen to the media and have no opinion of your own, you might get that impression. And if you're a member of a group that experiences racism and your community leaders and role models tell you that they are racist, then you have excellent odds of believing it.

Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain or Ben Carson are not going to fundamentally change that because the problem is not really in the Republican Party. The problem is that the other side has an extensive investment in depicting Republicans as racist and it controls much of the media and academia. [snip]

The left is not interested in gay marriage because it believes in marriage, but because it believes in destroying all existing social institutions. A Republican Party that fails to grasp that has no clue where it is or what it's fighting. [snip]

The Republican Party can go fiscally conservative and socially liberal and the joke will be on it, because a socially liberal society of broken families and absent values is naturally dependent on the Nanny State. Trying to be fiscal conservatives in a socially liberal society makes as much sense as trying to sell burnt Korans to Mecca

Read it all here  http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/03/dances-with-confused-elephants.html

 

Comments

[GoneWithTheWind]

The Democrats decided long ago to rule at any cost. They are politicians first and Americans last. Watching Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she was the DNC chair it was incredible how she could lie in the face of being told the truth and repeat the lies with a straight face day after day. This is what the Democrats stand for and have stood for since FDR. They want power and to them power is more tax money and more regulations. They barely give lip service to the constitution and in fact would throw it out if they could.

On the Republicna side there problem is they are made up of two different animals; Conservatives and Rino's. The conservatives put America and the constitution first and oppose excessive taxes and regulation. The Rino's may have some of those feelings, they will certainly claim to have those feelings when they run for office but in fact they too simply want power and are willing to tax and regulate to get it.

So what we have is worse then a stalemate. Hell! A stalemate would be good for us. What we have is a predatory Democrat party and a split and ineffectual Republican party. As long as more the 51% of the voters prefer "free stuff" to freedom the Democrats will control congress and/or the presidency. But once the cost of all that free stuff has come home to roost then and only then will the conservative message of the split Republican party find resonance with the voters. But even then it will be a hollow victory because the problem will be biblical and the austerity necessary to correct it placed on top of it will turn most people away from the conservative message.

This is a hot mess and I do not see a viable solution that will end well. We have already passed the point where this could have been cleaned up without blood and sufferring. The only unknowns are when and how will it play out. There is of course one other unknown and that is when will a preponderance of the people recognize the reality? Watch for that aha! moment because at that point whatever your backup plan is will probably be too late.

[Always On Watch]

Pessimist that I am, I don't see the GOP bouncing back by 2016 -- certainly not by 2014. We are living in the Age of Perceptions, and the general perceptions about the GOP are not good at all.