Anonymous Republican Senator: The GOP Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson

• November 25, 2008

But what’s interesting is that this coward, who apparently sees problems with in his own party but lacks the courage to put his name to his own criticism, seems to think that the GOP needs to get more moderate to win elections.

The Republican U.S. senator sits glumly across the restaurant table.
“I don’t think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people want to see,” he says. “We have the same gridlock.”
By the “same gridlock,” he means that party hard-liners, both Democrats and Republicans, will remain in control of the machinery of Congress. And that means more of the same. It means more politics as usual — especially in his party.
“We need someone who speaks from the center,” he says. “Sarah Palin is not the voice of our party.”
He talks a little about immigration. He is a moderate on immigration, which is to say he is out of step with most of his party. He says the Republican hard line on immigration hurt the party with Hispanics.
Barack Obama won about two-thirds of the Hispanic vote this year, up from the 53 percent that John Kerry won in 2004.
And the Republicans are very, very worried about the Hispanic vote. They see the African-American vote as largely gone, but the Hispanic vote was a possibility in future elections. If only Republicans knew how to appeal to Hispanic voters.
“We have to become much more attuned to the rhetoric and issues that Hispanics care about,” the senator says. “We have to talk about education, family, and moral issues like gay marriage and abortion.”

I have a pretty hard time accepting this argument.
First, isn’t John McCain – the guy who just got shellacked in the election – a moderate? And a pro-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants moderate to boot? And, despite protestations from the left, hasn’t Bush governed as a moderate as well? Are we really suggesting that John “open borders” McCain and George “compassionate conservatism” Bush are hard line Republicans that have lost elections for the GOP?
I just don’t see how that lines up with reality, and more finger-pointing at Sarah Palin isn’t going to change that.
If the GOP wants to get back into power they have got to stop pretending like trying to out-Democrat the Democrats is a sound strategy. And they’ve also got to stop pretending like being against gay marriage and against abortion makes you a conservative. Now I’m very pro-life myself, and ambivalent toward gay marriage, so I don’t necessarily have any problems with keeping those social issues in the GOP platform. But for anyone to think that they’re issues that are going to turn national elections any more is lunacy.
If Republicans want power again they need a pro-freedom agenda. And when they say things like “less spending” and “limited government” they need to mean them.

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http://eatmyshit.com/ you’re all fucked

The group of people most likely to consist of invaders are increasingly liking the blame-America-first party?

fuckin’ retard.

now you’re going with the idea that citizens, who already have the right to vote, are invaders?

edit… fuckin’ racist retard. or is that redundant?
Ann

What on earth is “moral” about gay marriage and abortion?
Steve E.

1. Most of the comments in response to this post are anonymous. Does the author consider you all cowards?

2. It’s hysterical that someone speaking anonymously against the right-wing is considered a ‘coward.’ Were someone to speak out anonymously against the left-wing, I’m guessing this same author’s take would be otherwise skewed.

3. Suggesting Bush has governed as a moderate makes me fear for your mental well-being. You’ve downed too much of Karl’s Kool-Aid. Please notice the private-sector armies fighting our wars, the private sector prisons holding our citizenry, the Federal Government and military burning swaths through our Constitution, the political firing of U.S. attorneys, cabinet-heads, and staffers, and the huge blinking neon arrows pointing from tax coffers to KBR, Haliburton, and the Carlyle Group.
the REAL Steve E.

1. Typical a$$hat, doesn’t read the comments, just who made them.
2. It’s hysterical when someone stands up for what they believe will constantly be branded racist or homophobes, etc. so I guess name calling was learned from ‘journalists”?
3. Private-sector armies are not fighting our war, they were hired by private companies because government is busy fighting the war and the companies are helping the country rebuild. “I voted for the war before i voted against it” or was it “I voted against the war before I voted for it” Lefturds feel they should get the best of both worlds and the ‘journalist’ let them do it.
4. Quit posting under my name.
di butler

What the heck is going on with this blog???? I realize it is Say Anything, but some of these people need to be blocked, IMO. I think it’s cool when we have discussions on issues that are different, but some of these people are just here to be nasty. Please consider an ignore feature, please, Rob!!!!
Halatbis

Am I getting this? The Republican Party should be more like the Democrat Party. The voters can flip a coin when they go into the voting booth because it won’t make any difference who they vote for–the governance will be the same. Who will raid the treasury to “give” us the most freebies.
I want out of here—-beam me up Scotty.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

I think that’s “Moderate” fear, I’m smelling……

Sounds like a Nervous Nellie, trying to preserve the “Reach Across” state of affairs……

It’s about time that we pressure these milquetoast, wimpy-assed, spineless, turn-coat, malcontent, conniving, Curr into leaving the GOP. They should get nervous, conservatives are long tired of them….
http://www.poorschmuck.net/ John D

What’s strange about this argument is that when conservatives run as conservatives, they often do very well.

Oregon has a reputation as a dark blue Democrat stronghold. But the truth is that this is true only of Portland and Eugene, our two largest cities.

In 2000 the Republican Party in Oregon ran Kevin Mannix, a firebreathing conservative, for Governor.

He was actually winning until some surprise ballots came in from some far flung county. Or the story goes. He ended up loosing by a few hundred votes. The Republican candidate has come nowhere close to that in the 2004 or 2008 elections.

The problem is that the State Republican Party is made up of a bunch of wusses that are afraid of pissing off the Democrats. That’s not the way to win.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

There is a “Republican hard line on immigration”?

Holy shit!

When did this happen?

Barack Obama won about two-thirds of the Hispanic vote this year, up from the 53 percent that John Kerry won in 2004.

The group of people most likely to consist of invaders are increasingly liking the blame-America-first party?

Well, color me surprised and bowl me over with a feather!
patriot

As a profession I’d rank journalism right down there in the gutter with the profession of “Lawyer”.

right. and your profession of toothless, unemployed redneck ranks where?
patriot

I suppose its beyond the intellectual capacity of most of today’s journalists to comprehend that if someone won’t go on the record (i.e. use their name) then perhaps what they’re saying is not all that newsworthy. As a profession I’d rank journalism right down there in the gutter with the profession of “Lawyer”.

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