CottageFarm said:
Republicans need to become more appealing to minority votes because they are now becoming the majority. If they don't become more appealing to these people the republican party will loose every election for now on. "
I keep hearing this BS spewed. Please enlighten us as to what, exactly, we should be doing differently to "appeal" to these "minorities" who don't like us.
Republicans/Conservatives, by and large, still believe in the principal of a constitutionally limited Federal Government. We believe in a REPUBLIC. That means that the Federal Government is limited by the Constitution in what they can/can't do, which is very little. No social/welfare programs, no sticking their nose in where it doesn't belong. Everything else is at the discretion of the individual states. That is the whole point of a Republic.
Modern Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Socialist, by and large, don't believe in any of those principals. The want a strong central government that controls every faction of citizens lives, with no autonomy for the states or individuals. They do not want people to have any control over,
or responsibility for, their own lives.
So enlighten us with your wisdom. What should we do differently so they will find the 1st description more attractive than the second.
There in comes much of the problem-- the Republicans talk that talk out of one side of their mouth-- then talk the opposite out of the other side or when they do something... Like the idiot old grey haired men running for Congress telling women how they should feel about rape :shock:
Hmmm, I can't recall ANYONE telling me how I should feel about rape. I'm fully capable of making my own decisions on the matter. I don't need anyone else to tell me that, whether it's a man or woman
That idiocracy ran more away from Romney/Repub land than any others- both women and men... Then you have national leaders (Palin) campaigning on their beliefs on sex education..
I'm pretty sure that's been her position all along. The problem is that the Fed's require sex ed. Shouldn't that be at a parents discretion??? This is another issue that should be left local....Just like abortion
Abortion WAS regulated locally until the Roe v Wade decision. Everytime a state tries to have any say on abortion now, it is the Dem's who fight it, not Repulicans
and Gay marriages- the Federal government should not be involved...
The Federal Government got involved with Gay Marriage in 1996 with the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act. It passed with large majorities in both houses and was signed into law by a Dem president. When that voters of individual states have tried to regulate it with in their state, it again has been Dem's that fought it
Another issue where I see the Repubs losing more and more followers is that they are trying to combine church and state... Many of the major Repub players are stupidly running away followers in a country that was supposed to have been formed around "freedom of religion"- (ex. Bachmann and her crew of dummy followers wanting all Muslims in D.C. investigated)....
Ummm, she was aking for an investigation into ONE Muslim, who had family ties to a known terrorist organization, who also happen to be an aide to the Secretary of State.That doesn't seem terribly unreasonable under our current circumstances.
Anyone that might think a little different than Bubba down the road is to be shunned and chased away ....
And then when you have more federal bureacracy grown with the last Republican Administration (GW) than any other going back to FDR ...
No wonder educated folks are fleeing the Repub Party...