This is probably just a pendulum swing to the left. The american public likes to switch parties every now and then. Since 1980 we've had 3 straight GOP terms, followed by 2 clinton terms, 2 Bush terms, and now 2 Obama terms. If you look at the historical patterns, the GOP will have 2 terms starting in 2016. At least I hope.....
Me too.
However, there are troubling trends that will force the GOP to re-evaluate their platform. If Ohio and Florida become blue states the GOP is screwed on the Electoral map. What happened to the Republican party of Reagan that carried 49 states? Their platform has pushed out many of the old Reagan voters. Working class whites have moved to the democrat party. The GOP used to be the party of old fashioned american values, while the democrats were the party of liberal fringe groups. The GOP has moved so far to the right, they are now the party of right wing fringe groups, while the democrats now claim to be the party of old fashioned american values. The democrats now appeal to working class whites because they talk about blue collar jobs, and american manufacturing, while the republicans talk about corporations, and dividend income. Republicans claim to be the party of old fashioned values because of their platform on social issues, but their fiscal platform has turned off the white working class they used to rely on.
Romney seemed to make significant gains among the working class and women. The fact that this was nearly a tie means the GOP did some things right. Romney was actually a great candidate. I agree the Republicans must appeal to a broader range of people. I still can't understand why they don't court blacks and hispanics whose voters are often fiscally conservative and even socially conservative (blacks). The Republican party is and remains the party of Lincoln and civil rights.
Romney was speaking truth about the 47%. The Democrats are buying the vote but it's resulting in the nation's wealth being invested in the unproductive part of the economy thereby decreasing the pie.
My advice to the GOP, become fiscally conservative again,
They largely seemed to be this election. We take in 2.5 trillion. I would like to see a $2 trillion budget proposal with the 500 billion going to debt principle. This can actually be done without cutting social programs in terms of how much money actually reaches the needy or cutting defense much and such needs to be communicated. Once in office, we can begin the business of truly cutting unneeded and inefficient social program.
and put social issues on the back burner. Talk jobs, jobs, jobs all the time. Romney tried, but nobody believed him.
Agreed. I think social conservatives can read, just like liberals do, that their candidate will do the right thing on social issues even though it's unspoken.
Stop talking about abortion and gays. Take away Rush Limbaugh's golden EIB microphone.
Unnecessary imho. Use him to get out the base.
and whose administration terribly mishandled the Benghazi assault that left 4 Americans dead including the American ambassador.
The Muslim Brotherhood connection in Obama's Mideast policy should have been explained and hammered. Obama is surrounding Israel with Islamic states that do not recognize the peace accords and that will result in more war.
Defeating Obama should have been like shooting fish in a barrel.
So one would think. But the Democrat voter has become more ignorant, blind, and uneducated. They have also been bought as they have learn to vote themselves largesse from the treasury.
Not only did the GOP lose to Obama, but the last 2 elections might have flipped Florida and Ohio to the Democrats, leaving an impossible electoral path for the next GOP nominee.
Yep. The GOP must outspend this last election for the next years years, investing in Democratic strongholds and then sustain it for years. They need a never ending low level drumbeat that doesn't just preach to the choir. The Democrats use the media for this, we need to create more than just Fox News and AM Radio.