As of comment #36 I have read several people saying (paraphrasing here) “We need to end the country club mentality of the current GOP”.
One of the people who has been held up (not in this thread, but in several I’ve read) as an example of the new wave in Republican politics is Rand Paul.
Where did Rand Paul give his victory speech after the primary? You’ve got it, in a country club.
I’m not a Republican (I’m not even an American) but what I think the Republican Party needs to do before election day is to tell people some of the positive policies they would like to enact once they retake power.
I know that for some people “We support the Constitution, we hate taxes, we love families” is enough to get elected. It isn’t. I do agree that “Vote for us because we’re not the Democrats” will lead to gains, but I don’t think it’s a strong enough message to win control of the house all by itself.
You can’t fix a budgetary deficit by cutting taxes (No, you can’t. It’s never worked before and it won’t work now). You can’t fix healthcare by repealing Obamacare and enacting tort reform. You can’t make the world safer by invading every country on Earth. and you can’t keep illegal aliens out by building great big walls (not even the Great Wall of China worked at that).
So, my humble prediction is if the Republicans introduce ideas that might have a chance at working the people will elect them. If the Republicans run on opposition they are liable to stay in opposition.
