Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s comment that the Republican party should “stop being the stupid party” was widely reported on Friday and it offers new hope, however miniscule, that conservatives in this country might somehow come up with a plan to bolster their cause after being trounced in the fall elections.
As a long-time member of America’s fastest growing party – Independents – who has watched both sides demonstrate their weaknesses in governance over the years, I think this is a step in the right direction, but the GOP faces a tall task.
The good news here is that, consistent with such programs as Alcoholics Anonymous where the first action aimed at recovery is admitting you have a problem, they’ve taken a big first step.
Though Jindal offered no detail during an address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, he was apparently referring to disastrous abortion-related comments made by Republican candidates during the last election, though, there’s a broader point here related to talk radio and Fox News.
How can you stop being the party of stupid when, to some extent, that’s what you are?
There’s a whole swath of Americans like myself who are generally “fiscal conservatives and social liberals” that find both parties unappealing for reasons that should be obvious from the “fiscal conservative/social liberal” characterization.
That’s the direction the GOP should go if it expects to ever win another national election.
The decision by Fox News to part ways with Sarah Palin was a good step toward this end, but more needs to be done and, if the existing party base doesn’t like it, they should be told to go form their own party. What are they going to do? Vote for Hillary in 2016?
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Sarah Palin isn’t the problem. Fox news is. Fox is Corporatism at it’s finest. She actually supported solid constitutional conservatives. I would like to point out that the establishment supported Akin not Palin. People need to open their eyes.
I’ll pay closer attention to Ms Palin next time around.
Maybe there’s more there than meets the eye (or maybe I was unduly influenced by the HBO version of her story).
Palin has financially supported and endorsed the likes of Rand Paul, Allen West, Richard Mourdock, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Michelle Bachmann, etc.
She is, in deed, part of the problem.
What is wrong with Rand Paul and Scott Walker? Rand Paul is one of the few outspoken Republicans that is not a war monger/Neocon, while Scott Walker is one of the few governors to take on corrupt public employee unions. Admittedly, I’m not up on Rick Scott in Florida. As far the Michelle Bachman endorsement, she didn’t endorse her Presidential run.
In my humble opinion, the main problem with the Republican party is corporatism and crony capitalism: supporting Bank Bailouts, Anmesty and unnecessary wars. Sarah Palin was the only GOP figure who bought up corny capitalism in last years campaign season. She also loudly criticized Bernake on his running QE/Money printing schemes.
In regards to Richard Mourdock, he seemed to be running a fairly strong compaign until he put his foot in his month. If I remember correctly, Romney did that a few times during the race.
The article was about Bobby Jindal’s plea for the GOP to “stop being the stupid party”.
All of the people that I named have a habit of showing up in the news sounding uninformed. When pressed on their views they usually double down and use the attention to grandstand.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I not sure what news your refering to. I don’t hold fox, cnn & msnbc in high regard.
Have you heard some on the silly things Biden, Hillary Clinton have said? It is usually covered up by the so-called news outfits you’re mentioning.