[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]CardiffBaseball: The Republican strategist on CNN put it best when he said, “We broke our brand”. That’s it in a nutshell. All of those things we were known for were essentially thrown out the window in the last eight years.
The Republican Party needs to re-center itself and relearn the message.
I had a feeling McCain was going to get smoked from the jump. A lot of key Republicans were putting distance between themselves and him, and that started shortly after Palin showed herself to be horribly gaffe prone and almost intentionally ignorant.
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The Republican Party has a fundamental problem. Their economic policies are designed to benefit the wealthiest 10%, so Republicans can’t possibly gain the majority on that basis alone. Thus the need for the alliance with the Christian Right. This alliance isn’t working so well because of the demographic shift. Recentering will not do much to gain democratic/moderate votes (Democrats are still better for 90% of the population than even centrist Republicans, economy-wise), but it will jeopardize what’s left of the alliance.
What they really need to do is figure out how to absorb Latino Catholics. Every year there are fewer and fewer old white Evangelicals and more and more young Latino Catholics.
