All I want for Christmas is a new GOP
But here’s the deeper point and the bigger problem for the GOP. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the party is against everything and for nothing.
Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be how you disrupt, but it is not how you govern, or how you ever hope to regain a majority.
And so, we have a Republican Party today willing to eliminate any prospect for a decent future for anyone, including itself, if it cannot be a future that is 100 percent in accordance with its core beliefs and principles. That’s not governing. That’s just lobbing hand grenades. If you’re only standing on principle to appear taller, then you appear smaller. And the GOP is shrinking daily before our eyes.
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
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What a strawman.
Most of us think that Bill Clinton was spending too much money – but we’d give our left nuts just to go back to that level of spending.
HondaV65 on December 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Please stop. You’ve already done enough damage.
mpk on December 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Besides, don’t you have another potential candidate to ruin?
mpk on December 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM
2 can play at that game. All I want for Christmas is a new democratic party. JFK, in todays era, would have been a tea party republican.
tommy71 on December 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM
mark, all I want for Christmas is for our nation to have a president who actually LIKES our country. All I want is to have a president who isn’t so self centered he does not give a flit who/what he craters! And If I had a real wish for Christmas, I would find the best witch doctor to be found and get three spells to put on bho,
)1 bho would not be able to utter one single word for four years not even with the help of surgery/meds
)2 bho would not be able to move his hands to sign anything, I know the auto pen can do that
)3 bho would not be able to put his head past the point to get his snotty nose/chin in the air.
NOW that is what I would like for Christmas, mark!
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letget on December 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Apparently maintaining the Bush tax cuts is nothing. As to the rest, we don’t want gun control, climate change legislation, gay marriage or amnesty, why would we propose any of them? Trendiness makes for poor legislation.
obladioblada on December 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM
I am through with the GOP.
Time for them to go the way of the Whigs. Bring on the American Conservative Party or ACP…
wildcat72 on December 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM
I also want a new GOP, but for completely different reasons.
DrAllecon on December 24, 2012 at 4:22 PM
How’s that “enforcement” Reagan was promised coming along?
Wethal on December 24, 2012 at 4:22 PM
There he goes using that word ‘republican’.
I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
trigon on December 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM
TRANSLATION: All he really wants is for those Meet the Press invites to keep coming. Key to that is to write conservative bashing pieces like this. Go away you fat ****
sbvft contributor on December 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM
I was worried we were going to get through the entire day without any concern trolling. Thankfully my fear was unwarranted. Dodged one!
ConservativeLA on December 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM
We are the party of No.
No further expansion of government intrusion into our lives.
No tax increases.
No surrender to politically-correct Islamopandering.
No further abrogation of the Constitution.
No open borders.
No cronyism.
No you cannot have “free” contraception.
And no, no, for the upteenth time, you can’t have a pony.
If only we didn’t exist, What A Wonderful World It Would Be.
ConservativeLA on December 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Fixed it for him.
Rebar on December 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM
I knew before I clicked that this was going to be about making the Republican party which is already drifted far too close to the Democrat party to go even further into being progressive Democrat light.
astonerii on December 24, 2012 at 5:39 PM
I’m for no gun control, no gay marriage, no broken borders, and no climate treaties nor any cap & trade schemes / carbon taxes of any kind.
If you want to achieve something, how about you accomplish something that is in line with the ideology of your base?
Stoic Patriot on December 24, 2012 at 5:53 PM
Mark McKinnon? The worthless Bushtard smear-merchant who was one of the sources for the defamatory smut known as Game Change? That Mark McKinnon?
Die in a fire, Mark.
Walter Sobchak on December 24, 2012 at 5:59 PM
Wow this most be the dumbest article of the week (and its only monday).
(Maybe we should add this kind of award in place of the old Obamateurisms and vote on them.)
Valkyriepundit on December 24, 2012 at 6:42 PM
This. Seriously, people… was the brain trust behind “UnSkewedPolls.com” too busy to contribute something, this week…?
Kent18 on December 24, 2012 at 6:48 PM