The Grand Old Party Needs A Reboot

[babylonsister]

Ouch!


The Grand Old Party Needs A Reboot
June 1st, 2013 12:00 am Cynthia Tucker


The political party of Abraham Lincoln is in trouble, threatened with irrelevance, even extinction. Its weaknesses are legion.

Its congressional leaders are quite unpopular, polls show. So are the party’s positions. Its beliefs — animosity to same-sex marriage, hostility toward saner gun laws, rejection of higher taxes for the wealthy, suspicion of popular entitlement programs — are not shared by the majority of Americans.

It is bereft of ideas, committed to formulas that don’t work (cut taxes, no matter the economic conditions) and to a rejection of reasoned analysis (climate change is a hoax). It has alienated the nation’s voters of color, who represent growing blocs of influence.

As if those deficiencies were not enough, the party is falling into a civil war, its internal feuds increasingly loud and obstreperous. The only thing that still unites all parts of the Republican Party is an irrational hatred of President Barack Obama.

That’s not good for the country. To meet the challenges of the 21st century, the United States needs at least two competitive political parties dedicated to solving problems. Their solutions will differ, of course, but each should offer them. At the moment, the Republicans have no solutions — to anything.

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[dogknob]

1. Not a reboot, THE Boot.

Dem vs. Green 2016!

[MineralMan]

2. Just a boot in the ass works for me.

Then disbandment.

[librechik]

3. they need a boot up the ass n/t

[MineralMan]

4. GMTA, apparently...

[librechik]

5. if it's you and me, MM true indeed.

oh, and a bunch of other DUers too!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. SHUT DOWN! not reboot

GOP = enemy of the people

[wandy]

7. I think Bob Dole was right. The republican party needs to put up a closed for repairs sign,,,,,,,

Then actually make repairs, not just "Image" changes.
For about two years just sit back and watch the river flow.
If they could save the energy they expend on obstruction and scandal and concentrate on what would improve the country they may again become useful members of society.
Of course the owners/major stockholders of GOP co. wouldn't allow that.
So.....

2014: Get the vermin out of the house.
End the republican menace.

[Blue Owl]

8. Lace up the steel-toed shitkickers

[TheKentuckian]

9. No, it needs to completely die. When the system comes back up the same bullshit software will be

there building back to the exact same place.

It is our party that needs the reboot and to run anti-virus on all the Turd Way dogshit.

One needs to go extinct, having no function in a secular democracy and the other in need of getting back to proper function and removal of shit that will crash it for some of the key reasons the other party has become a batshit terror organization.

[hatrack]

10. I was thinking more along the lines of Carthage vs. Rome - GOP delenda est

Flamethrowers, dynamiting the ruins, then sowing the ground with salt.

[Tom Ripley]

11. No, they need the final shovelfuls of dirt