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Aug
5
Kevin Tracy compares the GOP to Stalin
Filed Under GOP, Kevin Tracy, Republican Party | 4 Comments
The always thought provoking Kevin Tracy writes that the GOP has more in common with Stalin than John McCain.
What do you think? Personally, I’m glad the post didn’t mention Bush and that guy with the funny mustache — that has gotten old.
Let the Molotov cocktails fly, comrades!
Jul
17
A way for Republicans to win
Filed Under GOP, Grand New Party, Reihan Salam, Republican Party, Ross Douthat | Leave a Comment
Two authors have come up with what they say could be a way for the GOP to attract more voters in years to come.
Grand New Party authors Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam say Republicans need to start reaching out to workers who share the party’s conservative values and desires for individual liberties — a group that they call Sam’s Club Voters.
This new outreach will mean mixing economic issues affecting workers with cultural issues in order to win back voters who vote with their pocketbooks, but may be disaffected by the liberal elites in charge of the modern Democratic party, the authors say.
The interests of the working class — the common man, the hardworking but unexceptional citizen — have been at the heart of every great American political movement. From Jefferson to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Reagan, our most successful leaders have sought the democratization of wealth, competence, and social standing — not so that every American might be rich or famous, but so that we might all be independent and self-reliant and secure. In this sense, the American dream is ultimately a dream of home, of a place to call your own, earned and not inherited, and free from the petty tyrannies of landlords, bureaucrats, and bankers. It’s a dream of a country in which ownership is available to everyone, provided that they are willing to work for it, rather than being handed out on the basis of wealth or caste, brains or beauty.
Refocusing some of the GOP’s outreach will be the key to GOP victory for years to come.
