When I first wrote about the National Council for a New America (NCNA), the new GOP group whose goal is to rebrand the party listen to Americans be determined, I pointed out that the so-called values voters were the first victims of the Republican's latest effort to stop the bleeding, given that they had planned to ignore abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration as issues that America cares about.
And Tony Perkins agrees (which really must chap his ass):
In another step away from its conservative roots, Republican members of the House unveiled The National Council for a New America in hopes of recasting the Party's ailing identity. The effort only underscores the Republicans' present identity crisis, as the GOP leadership kicked off the campaign devoid of the values that once caused voters to identify with the party.
The group's priorities, which were unveiled at a pizza parlor press conference, include the economy, health care, education, energy, and national security. Notice anything conspicuously absent? Former Gov. Jeb Bush explained the values void by saying it was time for the GOP to give up its "nostalgia" for Reagan-era ideas and look forward to new "relevant" ideas. [...]
Turning away from those fundamental truths would be a death knell for the GOP as little would be left to distinguish the Republicans from the Democrats.
The NCNA is the gift that keeps on giving; from its shifting messages, to holding their first "outside the beltway" meeting inside the beltway, to Rush Limbaugh calling the shots, and now, hacking off the head of the Family Research Council, the NCNA has been a godsend ... to Democrats - both for the opportunities to mock and as another sign that the ongoing schism in the Republican Party between the wingnuttia and the extreme wingnuttia continues.