Priebus is right about his party's terminal illness, but he'll have to fight Palin and Limbaugh to s

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GOP “autopsy” dismembers the party

Priebus is right about his party's terminal illness, but he'll have to fight Palin and Limbaugh to save it

BY JOAN WALSH

It’s a little weird to call an inquiry into the troubles of a living entity an “autopsy” – they’re normally performed on the dead — but that’s what Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus labeled his four-month examination of his party’s 2012 defeat. It turns out he believes in truth in labeling.

Priebus’s thorough-going investigation and its 200 pages of recommendations leave the modern GOP dismembered, its diseased vital organs cut out, their toxicity examined, and the patient lying dead on the table. Some of the recommendations are surprisingly substantive, urging the party to rethink its harsh stands on gay rights and to back comprehensive immigration reform, for instance. It admits many voters see the party as “scary” and “out of touch.” But with the far-right crackpot CPAC convening as its backdrop – Exhibit A in scary and out of touch — it’s hard to see any organized GOP constituency for such changes, while there’s plenty of party opposition.

“Let’s be clear about one thing, we’re not here to rebrand a party,” Sarah Palin declared Saturday. “We’re here to rebuild a country.” Rush Limbaugh has already declared war on Priebus and his makeover plans. “The Republicans are just getting totally bamboozled right now,” Limbaugh told his listeners. “The Republican Party lost because it’s not conservative, it didn’t get its base out. People say they need to moderate their tone — they don’t.” He dismissed Priebus’ project as designed to soothe the party’s “donor base.”

Sure, some of the language is just namby-pamby massaging of the message. The section on women sounds like an old Midol commercial, promising to “address concerns that are on women’s minds in order to let them know we are fighting for them.” (Actual policies not included.) Of course, in the real world Republicans are still trying to defund Planned Parenthood and introducing new anti-choice bills coast to coast. And just over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell showed his desire to reach out for the women’s vote by ridiculing Hillary Clinton as the right age for the cast of “Golden Girls” but not the White House.

Full Article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/18/gop_%E2%80%9Cautopsy%E2%80%9D_dismembers_the_party/

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1. The GOP needs to put all its' energy into massaging the MESSAGE. Their only problem

is that the masses don't understand how a TRUELY Conservative Candidate is really the only thing that can save us from sinking into a bottomless pit of Democracy.

My GAWD you would think the majority of people want a government that actually has policies that benefit themselves. The HORROR