No soul searching for Virginia GOP after losses

[RandySF]

HOT SPRINGS, Va. — Virginia Republicans suffered a drubbing last month, losing all three statewide races (though a recount is impending in one). A year earlier, it was pretty much the same story as Mitt Romney got swamped and the party unexpectedly lost ground in the Senate.

But to hear GOP leaders in this once reliably red state tell it, this is no time to panic. No hint of discouragement is betrayed. Just as many party activists insisted after Romney’s loss, key figures here said that their shortcomings are cosmetic — that the problem is largely about campaign mechanics and how the conservative message is being delivered, not the message

So if the Commonwealth, sure to again be a top battleground in 2016, is a microcosm for the broader Republican Party, the GOP faithful here weren’t showing much interest in the kind of soul-searching many in the GOP believe is necessary if they want to win big elections again.
“All these reports of our demise are premature,” said Bill Howell, speaker of the state House of Delegates. “The cycle swings, and we’ll be back.”



http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/virginia-republicans-100845.html#ixzz2mwArqjC5

[Wounded Bear]

1. You have to have a soul...

in order to 'search' it.

[DonViejo]

4. Took the words right out of my mouth...

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I for one welcome introspective soul-searching among the Republicans.

Perhaps, collectively, they might find one somewhere in their membership--poor, malformed and scrawny thing that it would doubtless be.

[Vincardog]

3. That is because they are correct. They only lost because they had imperfect candidates who could not

Articulate clearly the true conservative vision of aMERIKA.

[jaysunb]

5. Let's hope it continues. :) n/t