With all the hand wringing going on in the Republican camp and the circular firing squad in full swing, I decided to review their platform (not much there) and came up with some points that they may want to follow to re-emerge as a winner. There are a ton of other points too and you the reader is more than welcome to add to it. But this is a good start (me think so).
How the GOP can win again
• Let go of their two issue agenda – Anti-Abortion and Anti-Gay Rights
• Be positive, rather than being negative all the time
• Let go of the fear mongering and try to instill hope
• Accept openly those with colorfully pigmented skin – rather than just white
• Get the extreme right religious fundamentalists out of their party
• Accept the fact that A-rabs are not bad people. They are normal human beings
• Accept the fact that Muslims are normal people
• Accept the fact that terrorists come in all religious flavors
• Accept the facts that gays/lesbians are normal people
• Accept the fact that gays/lesbians have rights too
• Kick out "pundits" like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, hannity, O’Rielly, etc. They do nothing but divide our country
• Attack ideology, not people
• Stop lying. Lies catch up sooner than you can play footsie with someone in the next restroom cubicle
• Be civil. Nothing to gain by being uncivilized and having a clan mentality
• Stop being hypocritical. Morality is not just for speeches, it is also to be practiced
• Understand that the GOP does not have sole rights to morality
• Realize that children are to be cared while within the womb and out of it
• Realize that bombing of abortion clinics to prevent "killing" kills people
• Sarah Palin is an idiot. Not a savior of the GOP
• Realize that calling someone unpatriotic does not make it the truth
• Realize that flag pins do not define patriotism
• Calling the Democratic Party the Democrat Party does not mean crap. Most elections, especially the last one has proven once and for all that the Democratic Party is indeed all inclusive and DEMOCRATIC!
If the GOP realizes/follows the items on this list they can definitely win. This has been proven by the landslide victory of the Democratic Party. Then again, if the GOP goes with the above list, they will indeed become the Democratic Party and we will have one big happpy family.
Hey, we can dream...can't we?