Where does the GOP go from here?

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by Taco John

A humanist is exactly what I am - and that especially includes where economics are concerned.

I wish that an Eisenhower Republican would run. Compassion towards people framed in smart business politics.

Why is Mises not more widely practiced? Why are Chinese using Keynes theory?

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by Drunk idiot kicker

The Uber-rich has benefitted immensely from America. The uber-rich has made an absolute ton of money because of the great economical environment that American has provided them with. It is right for the uber-rich to pay a fair price for the incredible service America has provided them.

I look at it somewhat like student loans. Student loans provide a vehicle to increase you income, worth and success through education. When you start making a lot of money, it is right to pay a fair price for the service that educational loans provided you.

Now, how fair the current price for student loans and education is– is very debatable, but the point still remains.

We need to raise education standards because we have become a nation of impatient retards. We do not have the capacity to think, retain a thought, or create much more than illogical fragmented statements. We are impatient with real research and the garbage statistics that people assume as real information should be insulting but most people do not realize they are being played. The reward of an educated population is honest politics instead of name calling.

[Play2win]

Originally Posted by Odysseus

We need to raise education standards because we have become a nation of impatient retards. We do not have the capacity to think, retain a thought, or create much more than illogical fragmented statements. We are impatient with real research and the garbage statistics that people assume as real information should be insulting but most people do not realize they are being played. The reward of an educated population is honest politics instead of name calling.

Good points.

The internet definitely feeds into this, that is for sure.

There is something to be said for reading good, quality edited and published real hardcopy books. LOL

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[El Minion]

Originally Posted by Odysseus

We need to raise education standards because we have become a nation of impatient retards. We do not have the capacity to think, retain a thought, or create much more than illogical fragmented statements. We are impatient with real research and the garbage statistics that people assume as real information should be insulting but most people do not realize they are being played. The reward of an educated population is honest politics instead of name calling.

Delayed gratification and immaturity are not only for children anymore. This has been coming on for a couple generations now, teens and pre-teens acting grown-up (Honey Boo Boo latest iteration) and 30 years old is the new teens with 60 years old as the new birth mothers.

[TonyR]

"We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything. We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys... It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that. It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters."

-- governor Bobby Jindal.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...743.html?hp=f3

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by TonyR

-- governor Bobby Jindal.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...743.html?hp=f3

Sounds like Bobby just got his ass kicked out of the Party.

[cutthemdown]

Not Disneyland thats for sure.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Looks like they're continuing down the road to extinction...

In their world, President Obama only won because Mitt Romney sucked as a campaigner. If Republicans had just nominated someone who was a better salesman, everything would have been fine for the GOP.

Republicans decide their ideas aren't the problem

Their attempts to demonize President Obama and undercut him by obstructing his agenda didn’t work. Their assumption that the conservative side would vote in larger numbers than Democrats was wrong. The tea party was less the wave of the future than a remnant of the past. Blocking immigration reform and standing by silently while nativist voices offered nasty thoughts about newcomers were bad ideas. Latino voters heard it all and drew the sensible electoral conclusion.

The Inconvenient Truths of 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z3

[Bronco Yoda]

Originally Posted by baja

We have both been reading his posts for over ten years. Taking that into account causes me to believe he is not the psychopath that a Romney is. He has thousands of posts indicating to the contrary. I suspect he does believe there is enough abundance for all and a safety net is good and necessary for a well functioning society.

I don't doubt TJ may believe this. Good on him. But I don't see that many OTHER Libertarians that believe this (and that's my point). Actually I know of NONE besides TJ. It's fashionable to say social liberal to balance out the fiscally conservatism... but it's just a misnomer IMO for the vast majority of Libertarians.

[Odysseus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-XN...eature=related

Bill O'Reilly versus Donahue -- retrospective

[W*GS]

Now, to which OMer does this car belong?

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

^

I'd say Nyuk, but the car doesn't have Texas plates.

[houghtam]

Originally Posted by Bronco Yoda

I don't doubt TJ may believe this. Good on him. But I don't see that many OTHER Libertarians that believe this (and that's my point). Actually I know of NONE besides TJ. It's fashionable to say social liberal to balance out the fiscally conservatism... but it's just a misnomer IMO for the vast majority of Libertarians.

My sentiments exactly.

Yoda, will you be my Star Wars bride?

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Now, to which OMer does this car belong?

I'm guessing this guy did not take the election returns well.

[elsid13]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Now, to which OMer does this car belong?

So much for the resale value of that SUV

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by El Minion

Delayed gratification and immaturity are not only for children anymore. This has been coming on for a couple generations now, teens and pre-teens acting grown-up (Honey Boo Boo latest iteration) and 30 years old is the new teens with 60 years old as the new birth mothers.

If you include the infantile million bumper sticker guy...Wow.

Our country has become a Wal*Mart, Faux news bubble, nightmare of trailer trash tossing around psycho babble about literally nothing.

[Arkie]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Now, to which OMer does this car belong?

Most of the time it's the liberals that cover their cars with bumper stickers. The funniest part is that it's a big gas-guzzling Lincoln, the Republican version of the Hippie van.

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[elsid13]

Guess this answer the question:

http://news.yahoo.com/creationism-co...-politics.html


Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised eyebrows Monday when he told GQ he couldn't answer a question about the age of the earth because "I'm not a scientist, man."



Having a top prospect for the 2016 presidential nomination say the age of the planet is "one of the great mysteries" comes at an awkward time for a party attempting to rebuild from its Nov. 6 drubbing at the hands of voters turned off by the GOP's embrace of social conservatives. But Rubio is hardly alone among potential Republican presidential contenders. Other big names for 2016 have weighed in publicly at various times over the years to position themselves as supportive of creationism proponents.


To science education advocates, these public statements fall into two categories: craven political panders to the conservative base and expressions of actual doubt in basic scientific principles. Both are disconcerting, the advocates say, and whether or not a president stands up for science has a broader impact than the education battles where creationism most often comes up.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Hiarious fallacies of the DNC and their media toadies:

1) Disproportionate appeal to the Democratic Party is by identity voting blocs, yet the Democratic party claims to cater to the majority, most of whom voted GOP. The DNC's sole claim of upcoming future dominance via demographics are demographics projections (admittedly tentative) that are based solely on continued lack of border control and the obvious intent of Democrats in legalizing these people and wooing them with more dangled carrot goodies.

2) The false but continued claim that amnesty will woo the Latino vote, when Reagan granted amnesty in 1986, it did no such thing. Amnesty is here being used not only as a carrot on a stick for the Latinos, but one for the Republican Party, also, for the interests of the DNC, and certainly not the American worker.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

[Y]et the Democratic party claims to cater to the majority, most of whom voted GOP.

Based on what data? Show us the numbers.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Looks like they're continuing down the road to extinction...

In their world, President Obama only won because Mitt Romney sucked as a campaigner. If Republicans had just nominated someone who was a better salesman, everything would have been fine for the GOP.

Republicans decide their ideas aren't the problem

Shocker: They aren't taking seriously the bellyaching and ideological spin of the loud, whining core of the Democratic base, isn't that shocking?

DailyKos - now THAT is a source we should all be turning our eager ears to. What are these people thinking?



Yes, Romney wasn't the best candidate and clearly he wasn't the best campaigner, either. Obama lost over 6 million votes from 2008 and the GOP failed the pick them up. This election was about poor strategizing and poor candiacy, not some great prowess from the libs with their amazing shining path of amnesty carrots and hopes of one-party dominance.

Dream on.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Based on what data? Show us the numbers.

You know the numbers, but the DNC chooses to spin it: "Party of the white people." Who are the demographic majority here and who make up more of the GOP's core than the Democrats? This is obvious, silly.

The "you can't woo the minority" spin is a reversal of what is really going on: The Democratic Party has a white people problem. They're having issues wooing many whites, especially on a regular basis. Their politics are alienating to the majority.

Perhaps less race baiting and confiscatory economics may help remedy this situation? Radicalization of hostile identity voter blocs is undoubtedly partly why Obama bled votes this time around. You can't claim to be a "post-racial uniter" and pull that kind of political game, trotting out a bunch of identity voters onto the stage at the DNC. Ridiculous.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

You know the numbers, but the DNC chooses to spin it: "Party of the white people." Who are the demographic majority here and who make up more of the GOP's core than the Democrats? This is obvious, silly.

Damn, you're a bad bull****ter.

You said, and I quote:

[Y]et the Democratic party claims to cater to the majority, most of whom voted GOP.

Where's the data that shows that "most" of "the majority" voted GOP?

You're just pissed that wealthy straight white Protestant men don't call all the shots anymore. Tough ****.