Top conservatives to meet on rebuilding Republican party, page 1

Top conservatives to meet on rebuilding Republican party

www.guardian.co.uk

Senior Republicans are planning to meet at a rural retreat in Virginia within days of the election to discuss how to rebuild a party they expect to be badly beaten in the White House and congressional races.

News of the meeting emerged as a poll in Arizona indicated that John McCain could suffer the embarrassing loss of his home state. The poll put McCain on 46% and Barack Obama on 44%, indicating the Republicans are struggling to hold on in their traditional heartlands.

Details of next week's post-election meeting, to be attended by state chairmen and prominent activists from the conservative wing of the party, are being kept secret for fear of being seen to preempt the outcome of the presidential contest.

It is intended to look at who should take over chairmanship of the party, whether the party needs to switch to the right, and to make plans for the next presidential election.

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Switch to the right??? Like they could get any further right without becoming fascists?

If they moved further to the right they would be assure a continued exile in the wilderness.

In case they haven't noticed, most people are moderates and a move to the right would further alienate an already disgruntled populous.

Let me offer a modest suggestion as to what would help the Republican party.

return to its roots as the party of the small business owner, not a pawn of mega-corporations... the party of main street, not wall street.

Reject the extremism of the funnymentalists as well as reject the no tax gut government zealots and return to a party that had moderate and liberal branches as opposed to just the party of movement conservatism.

It used to be that I could accept Republicans even if I disagreed with them... as it stands now they have become exactly what they accuse the Democrats of being, a party of extremists who have all but forced out or silenced their more moderate and liberal members.

Republicans are at their best when they are the big tent party as opposed to simply the party of their base.

www.guardian.co.uk
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reply to post by nyk537

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Surprisingly I agree with you... up to a point.

Big government aside the party has been taken over by extremists who do not represent the mainstream, whether that be religious or economic extremists.

There are plenty of ways of being a conservative without being a fanatic.

reply to post by nyk537

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I agree with you.
I also think Republicans need to take 2 steps away from the church immediately.

reply to post by nyk537

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Actually its funny because I have complained that the Democrats have done their best to become Republican lite while the Republicans have become progressively more extreme.

In my opinion there is no real left left in this country. Only more or less slightly left of center while the right consistantly moves fruther away from the center.

Actually the push to the middle really is a push to nowhere. It has been my experience that people want an actual choice, not some meally mouthed middle of the road.

AND while I do believe that the majority of people are moderates and do not want extremists in either camp they do want a difference between the parties.

reply to post by burdman30ott6

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My sentiments exactly.

The Republicans of today are nothing more than liberals in sheep's clothing.

Star for you for so eloquently laying that out.

reply to post by grover

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I wonder how this kind of meeting gets arranged? At what point did someone 'call for the gathering' and who was this person? "Top conservatives" sounds like a purposefully vague description of attendees. Especially since there are many conservatives - most of whom aren't at the top of anything (except maybe in their own minds).

Why would they want such a gathering leaked, especially BEFORE the election. It seems that this only paints a negative outlook on the party itself. Perhaps they are trying to rally wavering support from lukewarm Republicans, hoping they will vote with the party-line. But then, this is a UK article, which didn't cite any mainstream American media source.

They can't even 'leak' information properly. "The one party" (Republocrats) is totally broken, they all end up doing the same thing, regardless of their 'make believe' differences. That's the problem when both parties are owned by the same mega-corporate interests. Too bad they own the media too.

Edit to add:

This all seems to have started with the Rovian stratagem of 'embracing' the religious right. Ever since then logic seems to have abandoned the party.

[edit on 30-10-2008 by Maxmars]

reply to post by 44soulslayer

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If that AWB was off the table I'd be right there with laughing it up at a McCain defeat and dancing jugs while the full (D) government socializes everything to kingdom come but within 4 years they could bolster up and pass that AWB to cover everything from AR-15's to airsoft guns like Australia. No airsoft in Australia. I wonder if they can have Nerf?

Once government passes a law or ban they never easily give it up.
It takes decades of pain to get a right back if you get it back at all.

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