With a cautionary tone, Rand Paul admonished his fellow conservatives and had this to say about the future of the GOP in Texas:
"Texas will be a Democratic state within 10 years if you don't change," he told fellow Republicans at an event in Houston Saturday night.
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"We have to welcome people of all races. We have to welcome people of all classes — business class, working class. We have to have people with ties and without ties; with tattoos and without tattoos; with earrings and without earrings," Paul said. "we need a more diverse culture. We need a more diverse party. We need a party that looks like America."
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continued:
"People who are Hispanic or Latino, they have to believe that we want them in our party, so it is an attitude thing as much as it is policy," he said.
(Note that he said that target groups "have to believe" that the GOP desires their presence. He doesn't say that the party actually should welcome them. Again, much like their strategy to attract more female voters, it appears the GOP means to change their rhetoric, not their core ideology.)
His line drew mild applause from the audience.
"That was kind of tepid," he said.
I would love for his words to fall on deaf ears, much like Ann Coulter's Cassandra-esque prediction that running Mitt Romney as the standard bearer would be fatal.
I'm no fan of Paul, but even a stopped clock is right twice daily.