The Republican Party has painted itself into a corner

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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Oct-24-11 07:30 PM
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The Republican Party has painted itself into a corner
   
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Pity the GOP candidates

Kendall P. Stanley

10:43 a.m. EDT, October 24, 2011

<snip>The Republican Party has painted itself into a corner. At one point the Republicans wanted to be the "big tent" party, inviting any and all to sit at the table as a way to move the party forward. Someone forgot to tell those at the top that opening the door to any and all opened the door to people you might not want to sit down and have dinner with.

And the trouble is, those folks expected to be heard and kowtowed to.

Now you have the anti-government crowd -- read tea partiers -- wanting to limit government while the party as a whole wants to RUN the government. You have the social issues crowd that wants to move America back 50 or 60 years to what they perceive to be a better time. You have the anti-tax and cut the budget crowd. You have the religious folks who want to make America a theocracy.

And the party is supposed to come up with a candidate for president who can incorporate all that?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2178554

Hey DUmmies we aren't anti government, we are for limited government, limited by the Constitution.
I also don't know anyone who wants to move the country back to the days before civil rights, like you are implying here.
I also don't know any Christians who want a theocracy, if they do then they are like you goons and don't understand the Constitution.

Keep telling yourselves that the GOP is dead, you tried that in 2008 and it only took one more election for the GOP to make significant gains.

[JohnnyReb]

You have the social issues crowd that wants to move America back 50 or 60 years to what they perceive to be a better time.

Yes, yes I would like to take a piss at a rest stop without some queer pestering me.

[USA4ME]

This from a member of a party that has the UMWA and the whacko enviros trying to co-exist.  And that's just naming one of the many opposing factions within the Dems.

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