Okay, now I could go on and on about the GOP and their laughable attempts to "reboot" themselves (and gods know I often do). I do find it absolutely freaking highlarious that the way the GOP wants to salvage their badly stained reputation is to essentially do a complete 180 of what they have preached about for decades so that they can attract more voters. It is like they are surrendering their most fundamental beliefs so that they can win elections. Wait that would make them Politicians right?
Per examples, the GOP is against extensive Immigration Reform which not only peeves off illegal immigrants but also legal immigrants who see this as an attack on all Immigrants. So their attempts to reach out to Immigrants is doomed to failure Unless they embrace some form of Immigration Reform.
The GOP wishes to lower spending on things such as SNAP and WIC which helps feed families and children who cannot necessarily afford to feed themselves. This is seen as an Attack on the Poor and Lower Class. However with a growing Lower and Lower Middle Class population in America, they have to reach out to this population that they have inadvertently alienated.
The GOP as a whole opposes Same Sex Marriage and LGBT rights, but this is an ever growing segment of the population and, unlike so many other groups, is highly energetic and motivated when it comes to campaigning since they see it as a Fundamental Rights Issue. So to reach out to this very powerful group, the GOP is going to have to compromise on more of their beliefs.
It is really a nasty death spiral and one I see no real victory for the GOP. Historically the GOP has been made up of White folks. In the bad old days before others enjoyed the same rights and privileges (You know, like voting?) and it seemed like the majority of the country shared their somewhat limited and White Male-centric POV, they didn't have to worry about challenges to their way of life.
Now a days, the White Euro-style percentages that usually fed their successes are shrinking. Minority races are an ever growing force who are necessarily voting in their own interests. Suddenly (Okay not so suddenly cause this has been building for years), people are being faced with the idea that Immigrants, the Poor and Special Interests Groups will start doing what everyone else has been doing for decades. Instead of voting for what is best for the White Christian "Majority," they'll vote for what they think is best for their own people.
Huh, I think somewhere along the line, I completely lost track of the intent of this blog so I will just leave all of you with this absolutely highlarious comment from the comments section after the article.
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"Goof-Off Party addresses the most critical problems facing the country:
1. Rich people don't have enough money
2. Poor people have too much access to health care
3. It's too easy for certain people to vote
4. If gays went to church on Sunday they wouldn't be gay
5. Legalized pot means that the prison industry loses longstanding customers
6. With Afghanistan winding down we’re dangerously close to not having a war
7. The problem with Food Stamps is that without them WalMart would have to pay a living wage
8. If fetuses had guns they wouldn’t be aborted
9. NRA gun lobby needs something to sell the public other than fear. How about this sound bite?: "NRA defends the right of every child in America to grow up safe + protected from gun violence." Nah..., that won't work, let's stick with preventing imagined tyranny.
10. With global temperatures rising, Artic ice melting, and "storms of the century" occurring every few months, how do we continue to convince our constituents that climate change science is inaccurate so that oil interests fund our re-election campaigns?
11. Too many child-bearers in the Senate at historical high of 20% women... why can't they just stay at home, cook/clean/suck, and not vote? Score: 16 DEM and 4 GOP women Senators
12. Women contribute to their own raping... otherwise, their body would "just shut it down"...ya know, sperm can do a U-turn...... sluts on free contraceptives.
13. Schools must educate our children that Adam + Eve rode a dinosaur to church
14. Gravity is caused by the devil trying to suck us all into hell"
1. Rich people don't have enough money
2. Poor people have too much access to health care
3. It's too easy for certain people to vote
4. If gays went to church on Sunday they wouldn't be gay
5. Legalized pot means that the prison industry loses longstanding customers
6. With Afghanistan winding down we’re dangerously close to not having a war
7. The problem with Food Stamps is that without them WalMart would have to pay a living wage
8. If fetuses had guns they wouldn’t be aborted
9. NRA gun lobby needs something to sell the public other than fear. How about this sound bite?: "NRA defends the right of every child in America to grow up safe + protected from gun violence." Nah..., that won't work, let's stick with preventing imagined tyranny.
10. With global temperatures rising, Artic ice melting, and "storms of the century" occurring every few months, how do we continue to convince our constituents that climate change science is inaccurate so that oil interests fund our re-election campaigns?
11. Too many child-bearers in the Senate at historical high of 20% women... why can't they just stay at home, cook/clean/suck, and not vote? Score: 16 DEM and 4 GOP women Senators
12. Women contribute to their own raping... otherwise, their body would "just shut it down"...ya know, sperm can do a U-turn...... sluts on free contraceptives.
13. Schools must educate our children that Adam + Eve rode a dinosaur to church
14. Gravity is caused by the devil trying to suck us all into hell"
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