I apologize I know this subject has been diaried but the Republican party has completely lost touch with any sense of reality.
In his attempt to rev up the party faithful, Romney said the GOP fight to regain power is a continuation of the U.S. war of independence, casting the Democrats as the loyalists and Republicans as the patriots.
"We are the party of the revolutionaries. They're the party of the monarchists," he said. "They are the party that believes government knows best and that government is the sovereign.
"And we are the party that believes the people and free people and people pursuing their own dreams are what make America the strongest nation and most powerful nation on earth...and we are going to continue to be revolutionaries," he said.
Though he acknowledged that it will be difficult for the GOP to significantly impact the Obama agenda in the near-term without control of Congress, Romney maintained glass half-full perspective.
"We have an advantage and I don't know that we recognize it as such," he said. "When you have the White house as a party, pretty much all the ideas and the course for your party is going to come out of the White House...communication comes top down. Everybody else has to march behind."
"We have the opportunity instead to come from the grass roots and listen to the people and to look at different options for different strategies by listening to the people of America and having different voices and different Republicans and different leaders step forward and that's what we are going to do," he said. "We are not going to have just one idea that comes from one place."
For his part, Bush said part of the GOP's problem is that the party has been too focused on its past victories instead of developing innovative ideas for the future.
"It's time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about our past because things do ebb and flow," he said, arguing for the need for the GOP to develop alternative approaches on education, health care and energy.
"It's nice to remember the good old days when the good guys--if you're a conservative--were in power....but none of that matters right now," he said. "What we need to do is to listen, to learn and then there will be new generation of leaders that will lead."
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The Good Old Day!!! C'mon!!
and then there is Jeb Bush
So the way you start getting in touch with the American people is to start with the same old line of Rhetoric and position that got our country into the mess it's in today. The way you do it? you get a ultra Neoconservative Mormon Billionaire and the brother to the worst President in the history of our country to revamp the party's image. It's like pouring purfume on a pile of dogcrap in hopes that it will smell different instead of cleaning it up with a scoop and taking it out to the curb.
What about the hate that broadcasts over the noise machine during the day via Rush, Hannity, O'reilly, Beck and right wing radio. What about the Michael Savage?
The Republicans haven't even begun to address the root of their party's problems. It's their entire platform and double standards.
It's the "holier than tou" attitude preaching of Bible while ignoring the love, compassion and forgiveness of Jesus's teachings....
It's telling American families they can achieve "the American Dream" while they systematically outsource and insource our jobs in our country and American households work two jobs and hope that our underfunded schools bring up the country's youth.
The constant pointing of fingers at "everyone else" for the country's woe's instead of looking in the mirror.
It's the clanishness and arrogance toward anyone who may look different, have a different religion and in some areas of the country, have a different race.
It's the basic greed that the feel they have to own and control everything.
It's the underestimation of the American public. Thinking just because your propagandists say it 100 times, we are going to think it's true.
It's the Enviroment
It's the train wreck our country quickly went into under Republican reign..
I can go on and on
but in the end, what the GOP has in regards to leadership has very limited possibilities with what the common man wants.
They can find all the same "Joe Plumbers" and " Sara Palin" but if they look and act like the same old party liners then they are party liners...