bladimz
12-03-2012, 06:43 PM
Some sound suggestions (http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201212020066) for the GOP, if they do care about their future as a viable political party:
Joseph Wyatt: Suggestions for the GOP
The GOP took a beating. Evidence: Obama is the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to twice win both the Electoral College and popular votes. Dems gained seats in the Senate and closed ground in the House. Neither Romney nor Ryan carried his home state.
If we are fortunate, the GOP will regain its footing. Toward that end, my research department has developed suggestions for the Republican Party:
1. Accept the findings of science. Evolution, global climate change, usefulness of stem cell research and the HPV vaccination -- these are facts. Non-science is nonsense.
2. Respect women. GOP candidates told us that women must be required to have medically unnecessary vaginal probes, that rape victims can't get pregnant and when rape results in pregnancy, God's will has been done. Women were listening.
3. Tell the truth. Mitt Romney told us that Obama removed the work requirement from welfare, that Jeep was sending "all production" to China, and that his budget had no $5 trillion cut. Worse, Romney persisted in these and other dishonest statements, well after they had been revealed to be wrong.
4. Accept that government is necessary and does a number of things more effectively than could the private sector. The country is too large to be governed solely by independent states. Related to that, the GOP should dump Grover Norquist. His "no tax increase" pledge is unworkable. Anyone who signs it is unfit to govern.
http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201212020066
The commentary goes on with quite a few more suggestions, and most of them are pretty sensible and realistic.
Come on, Republicans. You can either make the suggested modifications or go the way of the Edsel.
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Joseph Wyatt: Suggestions for the GOP
The GOP took a beating. Evidence: Obama is the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to twice win both the Electoral College and popular votes. Dems gained seats in the Senate and closed ground in the House. Neither Romney nor Ryan carried his home state.
If we are fortunate, the GOP will regain its footing. Toward that end, my research department has developed suggestions for the Republican Party:
1. Accept the findings of science. Evolution, global climate change, usefulness of stem cell research and the HPV vaccination -- these are facts. Non-science is nonsense.
2. Respect women. GOP candidates told us that women must be required to have medically unnecessary vaginal probes, that rape victims can't get pregnant and when rape results in pregnancy, God's will has been done. Women were listening.
3. Tell the truth. Mitt Romney told us that Obama removed the work requirement from welfare, that Jeep was sending "all production" to China, and that his budget had no $5 trillion cut. Worse, Romney persisted in these and other dishonest statements, well after they had been revealed to be wrong.
4. Accept that government is necessary and does a number of things more effectively than could the private sector. The country is too large to be governed solely by independent states. Related to that, the GOP should dump Grover Norquist. His "no tax increase" pledge is unworkable. Anyone who signs it is unfit to govern.
http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201212020066
The commentary goes on with quite a few more suggestions, and most of them are pretty sensible and realistic.
Come on, Republicans. You can either make the suggested modifications or go the way of the Edsel.
1036