I've been listening to the reports from the GOP winter meeting and the main theme is that they need to work on the tone and the packaging of the message. Not the message itself. to paraphrase Sharpe (who was paraphrasing Napoleon): A piece of fecal matter in a silk container is still a piece of fecal matter. How are you going to explain that "self-deportation" is a good idea to new citizens? How are you going to explain to a person who lost a relative to gun violence that the solution is to bring back the Wild Wild West? How are you going to explain to the middle class that the way out of our economic troubles is to bring back the turn of the century..the 19th century that is.
To change the GOP is to have the constituents like the evangelicals and the Tea Partiers realize is that they will have to accomodate views from the rest of the world and vice-versa. Otherwise, watch the GOP start diminishing as the demographics of the nation change.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
To change the GOP is to have the constituents like the evangelicals and the Tea Partiers realize is that they will have to accomodate views from the rest of the world and vice-versa. Otherwise, watch the GOP start diminishing as the demographics of the nation change.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell