Until the GOP can come up with another great communicator like Ronald Reagan, they are screwed. And if even then, with the expansion of minorities who appear to cast their votes based on skin color and/or degree of coolness they still may be in the dumper, and if that´s the case so will be the entire country.

The RNC lost this last election, even though it was a slam-dunk win for republicans. Fortunately, normal people were able to win at the local levels.

The RNC needs to move their offices to Oklahoma City. They have stagnated, hanging around DC all these years.

This is pretty much a declaration that conservatives are no longer welcome. If you are conservative! either fiscal, social or both, this is clearly not the party for you. Some of the candidates may have conservative values running as "R", but that, too, will dwindle as time progresses.

It´s clear these people see a Democratic Party and a Democrat light party as the future of the so-called GOP. And these are the people who are in charge, make no mistake. It´s crucial at this point to be very sure about the qualities of the candidate that you´re looking to support if they are in the Republican Party. You must concentrate on their career and the decisions that they´ve been part of, not just the latest things they are saying. This is how these people foo us again and again and again. It´s got to come to a stop. Now.

The party needs to decide what it wants to be. A person can be a fiscal conservative and be more moderate on social issues, Or, a person can be conservative on social issues but prefer bigger government. If the GOP chooses to throw out both groups, and be the party of only those who are 100% conservative on both fiscal and social issues, then it is ´pure´...but a permanent minority party.

Reagan´s genius was the ´big tent´. He appealed to those outside the base. The problem I see with today´s conservatives is that want those outside the purity zone to leave the party instead.

So the sheeple think the GOP is filled with mean old guys.
Well, they never like anyone who tries to control their amoral instincts. They don´t like the police either. Without the GOP it´s the mommy´s trying to be friends with the kids. . . no grownups just chaos.

#5 that is incorrect. Ronald Reagan was a conservative leader who was a true believer with honor and integrity. What is proscribed here by the party is voluntary disolution.

Oops! I meant #4, excuse me #5.

Today´s GOP is not being run by Conservatives.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! The GOP the MSM CHOOSES to highlight in all their broadcasts are the old white guys. At the RNC convention, the liberal networks cut away whenever a minority or youngest representative was featured. The problem is our PR STINKS, STINKS, STINKS! We need someone to broadcast NATIONALLY all the minorities like Mia Love, and all the other minorities including the Hispanics that I saw at CPAC. The old white guys need to get together with the CPAC crowd and sew the rips in the big tent. Too many people all over our country are conservative and silent. We need to organize and maybe the tea party could help with that. Sarah Palin shouldn´t be treated as a postscript, she has talent! Welcome her and others like her. We are hurting our own.

This isn´t about conservatives demanding purity - the conservatives have been mollified by being on the undercard on the presidential ticket since Dan Quayle. The last time the more conservative candidate was in the top spot was Reagan/Bush. Now they are telling us that the only "conservativism" that can win is the kind that welcomes illegal "Americans" and is evolved Obama-like on gay marriage. I don´t know that kind.

The problem with the whole RNC fix is that rather than positively selling a political philosophy, their pitch boils down to, "Vote Republican - We´re Not as Bad as You Think."

I can´t wait for the "Will you stand with Reince Prebius" phone call that I know will come this week.

Unfortunately my Republican Party of the past 44 years has fallen into the hands of ankle biters and idiots, who would rather shout their insane views, be distacted by shallow, self- serving politicians and disparage their leaders than work together for the good of the party.

This led them to fail to get behind one of the finest candidates produced since R. Reagamn and give our country away for another four years.

The Rino callers and papier mache elitists and the too many ordinary klunks deserve what will happen to them, but I don´t.

From the article: "The report’s authors say they’re not offering policy prescriptions, but the overall thrust is that the GOP must moderate itself ideologically."

And therein lies the train wreck of the GOP.

The RNC family was determined to go the minority route a long time ago. Even today I heard no examples of alleged lack of caring. After Sandy Storm Chris Matthews thanked the storm for putting Obama over the top. No one mentioned minorities until GOP types raced to the microphones before the ink was even dry to say that was the ´reason.´ The article notes a much more interesting fact especially as one sees so many young people at CPAC: Romney won age 30+ voters by 1.8 million, Obama won age 18-30 by 5+ million. The RNC beat themselves up for nothing. This purity business is another dead end street. My issues have nothing to do with social issues: 1. Stop the global warming fraud. If you can´t do that, realize US CO2 could go to zero and it won´t affect the planet. 2. Get out of the UN. 3. Secure the border. 4. Eliminate at least 2 fed. agencies. 5. No new immigration from Middle East and Africa. 6. Term limits. You can do plenty without mentioning abortion or gay marriage. But not in the GOP.

`The dems have a unifying entity of keeping them together and that´s the absolute fear of the Obama mafia.The GOp doesn´t have a central command leader that enough people have faith in.Two different styles of running a party.

I don´t remember any hand wringing or blood letting after the left lost in 2010.They simply said outside groups like Rove´s bought the election,no mention of an Obamacare backlash or anything like that. This is why people are still puzzled over how we lost this last election. How did we lose our momentum in 2 short years?

The short answer is the left´s ground game including cheating simply overwhelmed republican voters.It could be a big plus if the SC upholds voter ID requirements.Obama won´t be on the ticket next year will will help suppress lofo turnout.

The GOP establishment will never blame vote stealing because it´ll look like sour grapes but activists have to keep pushing for voter integrity.

Step number one should be getting rid of Rove. Then force RINO´s to retire. Start with McCain. Most importantly, embrace Palin. You don´t have to like her but millions of republicans do. It´s very elitist to snub your nose at someone a huge segment of your party truly likes and it doesn´t matter if you think she´s presidential material or not, she´s beloved by millions. Just pretend if that´s the best you can do.

Well here is my take on why the republicans lost. We had a skilled candidate who failed to comprehend the capacity (or lack of it) for critical thinking of the electorate. He made the mistake of assuming that the electorate would see through the hyperbole offered by the opposition and that the media would shamed and chastened into presenting facts rather rumor. If he or any of the myriad of consultants had paid attention to the trends in 2004 or 2008, the party would have done a 180 in March and started campaigning against the incumbents rather than continuing its internal squabbles.

Frankly, I am beginning to think that we need to stop running away from the ´old white guy´ image. Seems to me that John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Renee Descarte, George Mason offered a lot more to humanity in one year than Mao TseTung, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, or Hugo Chavez did in a lifetime

A political party is not a fraternal order. A party is something where people are bound together by a shared philosophy. This was Reagan´s spoken belief. I no longer share the Republican philosophy if it includes gay marriage, amnesty for illegals, and expanding the federal government. The RNC just came out with a report that was a slap in the face to conservatives and the base. A call for moderation of all things.
Yep, here are your moderates: the Bush´s, Dole, McCain, Boehner, Romney, Nixon, Ford, McConnell, Rove, losers all.
They will fight back if a conservative confronts them, but never will they fight back at the Democrats. See Rove replying to Palin, but never did so for 8 years under Bush.
The Republican Party is dead. When something is lukewarm it is dead. It won´t cook and it won´t freeze, it will only stagnate.

Why is it so impossible for Repubies to stand on PRINCIPLE?

Stand firm on core beliefs and let the chips fall where they may.

Couldn´t be any worse than last two elections.

#16, how would you "get rid of Rove"? He´s a private citizen and, as such, is entitled to express and support any views he agrees with. You would deny him the same freedoms any other person in the political world enjoys? Those who don´t like him, certainly don´t have to follow his recommendations, but "get rid of"? In addition, "force RINOs to retire" presents a different set of problems. Who are the "RINOs"? How would they be "force"d to retire?

In my own view, until we can begin to reassure minorities, including legal Hispanic citizens, that they should not fear us but should listen to our ideas for improving their opportunities, we have no hope.

Hey #18. You will never get all Repubs to agree 100% on anything. Don´t be so anxious to write off people like Boehner, McConnell, and McCain. None of them are supporting gay marriage. OK, McCain can be a pain at times but he is strong on defense and is a firm vote against tax increases. He´s an easy win in Arizona and I don´t know if we could win a senate seat there without him on the ticket.

GOP will never win another presidential election. The sheer force of demographics, combined with a dumbed-down educational system and widespread election fraud in minority districts means it is over the Republicans. The GOP agreed in 1982 to a court order NOT to challenge fraud if it involved minorities. Thus the party is helpless against outright thievery. A new party must emerge from the ashes of the broken GOP.Facts must be faced.

Since the GOP has a house cleaning and restructuring plan that doesn´t include the conservative base then they don´t need me.
If I want to stand with groups of gays, liberal black and brown races and whatever weird splinter group I´d join the democrat communist party.
I´m old and will wander in the dark forest until a party that has winning elections their goal comes along. I voted Republican for the last time.
The democrats will win from here on with their fraud and Santa Clause candidates. It´s a sad state of affairs.
The GOP needs the dummy vote not the consersvative vote so color me gone.

I have zero hope the Republican Party can change ... into the Party that supports Freedom, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

None.

Here´s the money quote:

Until it’s willing to call itself out more critically for its own failings — for its lack of conviction, for being so squeamish about the moral convictions that animate the Republican base that it can’t find a way to help broaden the social message outward — the Republican mainstream will remain an impediment to the party’s salvation, rather than its guide out of the wilderness

I understand the "first, you win" philosophy. That´s just basic common sense. But our conservative message doesn´t seem to appeal to the majority of Americans any more. That is the tragedy and the kernel of truth conservatives don´t seem to want to examine: How do you win with a message most voters don´t want to hear and don´t like?

Amen, #23. This last election was the proverbial straw. the GOP couldn´t beat a guy like Obama with an absolutely horrible record in office. It is over, folks. I´m now an independent. Since the GOP keeps claiming that´s who they need to reach, my new posture for the "give us your vote" types is: "I´m an independent. What are you going to do to win my vote, GOP?"

This is a sad time in America. We are watching the demise of the greatest personal freedom experiment in man´s history, and those who have now seized control of the GOP are only hastening the end. It is sickening to watch this.

#22: AMEN!
If the supposed "remedy" for the GOP is to submit to gay marriage, embrace of the millions of mostly illiterate parasites from Mexico and SA, and then cater to LoFo appetites, then the GOP which exists now is over. I am sick of political correctness, and this is what is at the very bottom of this type of "re-branding". I am done with it.
The USA most of us on this site remember committed suicide 9 years ago. We are expendable. 2016 will see Hillary Clinton elected. How do you say "Good-Bye USA" in Spanish?
After these interlopers, are in the majority (as are LoFos already) it is absolutely given that everything Americans worked for for generations will slide into the sea, euphemistically speaking, just like so many other great cultures did.
The only other option is complete civil war. And given that our young men are being wussified daily in the MSM (doing laundry, preening before mirrors working on their hairdos), good luck with that.
Sorry for the rant.

Are we are headed toward a British style of Dem left and Dem center? They call themselves center left and center right but, basically, you vote on which side can best manage the socialist bureaucracy. I don´t think there is much of a true Conservative presence. (Maybe Attercliffe can correct me if I´m wrong)

# 16 You want to get " rid of " a private citizen ?
You sound like Obama with his drone program.
Freedom is an empty expression for many conservatives.
Karl Rove is a private citizen, unaffiliated
with the RNC ,
who spent months and months ,
on his own dime ,
traveling the country and raising money for Republicans.
He supported Tea Party candidates
with millions in 2010 and 2012 .
His ads were terrific-some may still be available on the net.
The Republicans did not lose because of Karl Rove´s great ads.
The guy actually deserves a medal.
BTW- How many millions did Palin´s PAC spend running ads ?
Or Rush Limbaugh ? Or Mark Levin ?
Republicans lost because stupid loud mouth Republicans happily
validate every negative stereotype
the Democrats and media say about us.
Rush Limbaugh and his 3 days of offensive Fluke lies cost us
the votes of young women and other demographics.
He damaged the cause terribly.
Akin and Mordouck validated
that Republicans live in the dark ages and hate science.
The country has shifted in demographics and priorities.
The RNC recognizes this , many Republican consultants
recognize this ,yet, many conservatives
insist that 2013 is just like 1980.
The Census Bureau reports that the US has 21 million
teens between 15 and 19.
A good percentage will be voting in the next elections.
Republicans are wise and strategic to try and
reach as many demographics as possible.
The resistance and anger from the far right because the RNC
wants to update the conservative message
and bring forth new messengers is mind boggling.
I fear that 2014 is slipping away.

#27 May I join your rant? You have expressed my thoughts perfectly.

A Republican party that most of us knew years ago no longer exists. For that matter, the same applies to the Dims. They have become more and more socialist and have been able, by buying votes via Santa Clause, while the Republicans have become a "me too" party. Controled by RINO´s. At this point in time, I don´t know when I´m going to stand, politically. I guess I´m a CONSERVATIVE Indepentant.

What choice do the American people have if the GOP platform simply rolls over again and morphs into the statist dem´s agenda? Two parties running on the same platform does NOT give the voters an fair & even choice!!!

American voters have always strived to make the country´s policy decisions THROUGH their choices of their representation within our government by those elected public servants whom the voters discern are both, (-HOPEFULLY!!), ethical and who stand firm upon the voter´s party platform which is also voted on by the citizen-delegates at each party convention. GOP voters definately do not want anymore devious ´GOP´ pols who campaign right but then do a 180o by governing left!!!

The dem pols elected these days run left and govern LEFT-ER!!! -YIKES!!! Enough already! Voters demand a choice on public policy as is their Constitutional Right to rely upon!!

The article and above posts only provide more motivation for a new party. Let the RNC go its own way - no need to "remove" anyone. Conservatives can remove themselves and set up their own shop.

Then the electorate will have a clear choice: Democrat, Democrat_Lite, or Conservative. Bold colors, and only one pastel. They will vote based on what they really believe, and events as Obamacare and its consequences unfold. They will decide, and let the RNC consultants be damned.

Lookit...we need a MASSIVE P.R. campaign. I say, take out massive ads on a regular basis NOW and run until Nov. ´14.

We don´t need to splinter which pleases democrats tremendously and are laughing their behinds off when they read about that.
Our tent IS big and it is fine. And WE have the SUPERSTARS now, NOT the dems...tired, stale old party that they are...hehehe.

In the meantime, prepare for the worst, expect the best. These are VERY dangerous times. Let´s hope we survive to SEE Nov. ´14.

Oh for god´s sake. I also wrote post # 16 - by ´getting rid´ of Rove, I meant firing him from any position of importance in the Republican Party. It´s always amazes me how out of joint so many people get when they totally misunderstand something as simple as "get rid of Rove." The Title on the post was The GOP Establishment´s Bid For Change. My bid: fire Rove. Hope that clears this up.

It doesn´t need to be changed as much as purged of all non-conservatives in the Old Guard - RINOs.

Growth and opportunities are housed within truly conservative ideas. Period!

I told the GOP to stop calling me asking for money.

When I get conservative leadership, I´ll start contributing again.

Until then, they can go pound sand.

2 passing questions:
What kind of a general(Rinse Prebush)stands up before a 5th Column and announces his battle plans?
Are the Elite Establishment Republicans treacherous or just really stupid?

The Republicans are trying to be treacherous, but it comes out that they are just plain stupid. They fear losing their power to the grass roots. They hire consultants who are also stupid. With this kind of record going for them it should be easy to take over the party.

The republican party´s problem is simple: the entrained thinking of the "insiders" like Reince. They don´t listen. Romney had Obozo on the ropes after the first debate, but insisted on calling this communist "a good family man in over his head". Balderdash! Listening to the likes of Reince and Rove snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Now they double down on idiocy.

I have stopped being a republican (I had been a dues paying member of the Waukesha Wisconsin branch). Now I am an independent . Years of trying to get these hacks to listen to my ideas, and sending them thousands of dollars, has finally galvanized me to action. I am a conservative, not a republican. I will explode in my support in the primaries. Yes, I´ll support the most conservative candidate in the general election, but not one dime for the Republican Party.

I don´t know what the GOP stands for, except for lower taxes. On that they have been consistent. Other than lower taxes, the GOP is mush. This country is now majority More Free Stuff voters, so it probably doesn´t matter.

Get Ben Carson as GOP Nominee beginning now...

He will ´reach out´ to Everyone and save your $10MM...

Look at what the purist liberals have done to the democrat party. it no longer exists and is now the Liberal progressive party( long for marxist light ).
Conservative democrats ran to the republican and were hailed at first.
Now the purist are very close to demolishing the Republicans. RINO is the most disruptive label that dooms fiscal conservatism with a more moderate political outlook to the same end. There is no longer a home within the existing GOP for independents who understand that social conservatism should include some aide and mercy for the poor and halting. Decent legal immigrants has been the so called rock the nation was founded upon. There should be no home for those who are jumping on the new morals of anything goes and goes.
You have let a monger upset the entire meaning of America and now you want to blame but do nothing.