From The Guardian:
At their first winter meeting as they settle into what could be a long stretch in the opposition, the voting members of the Republican National Committee pledged to hold President Barack Obama and the Democratic-led Congress to account, to rein in the expansion of the federal government – and to wait for the Democrats to foul up to the difficult job of governing during an economic downturn.
"Now is not the time for us to lick our political wounds, now is the time for us to inflict some political wounds on our opponents," party chairman Mike Duncan told members in a hotel ballroom in Washington, to vigorous applause.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the party's highest election official, said the party must regain voters who have fled the party.
"Unless we do something to adapt, we. are. doomed. our status as a minority party may become too pronounced for an easy recovery," he told the gathering.
"The situation is challenging, but it's far from irreversible."
How far is far?
Chief among those concerns for party members is regaining strength among urban and minority voters, and somehow winning over blacks who voted 95% for Obama, the first black president.
"We just simply are doing nothing in the urban areas anymore," Ann Dickinson, a committeewoman from Missouri, said in an interview. "We have recruited great African-American candidates, and we have helped them in every possible way, and their own community won't vote for them. Even if they're better, and they know they're better, they'll vote for a Democrat. They'll vote for a Caucasian over their own person who knows their interests and needs, if they're a Republican.
Clue: If repubs do the selecting, it's a safe bet that the selected are contaminated.
Nobody knows how to change that."
Clue: Nobody except 95% of African Americans who wouldn't vote for anything put up under the rep*blican brand. Shit in an African American package is still shit.
But Republicans say the party must not dilute its message or retreat from its principles – lower government spending on social programmes [sic], lower taxes, opposition to abortion rights and same-sex marriage – in order to win over African Americans.
Principle: Lower govt. spending on social programs and Heavy government spending on Looting and Pillaging operations. Why are they picking on African Americans? Are they actually thinking that African Americans are the easiest targets for criminal persuasions? What happens if that gets out? 100% of the African American vote to Dems? This is their plan? They're not done yet:
But the Republicans take solace in American political history, and say they must be prepared to take charge again when voters tire of the Democrats. Louis Pope, a committeeman from Maryland, noted the "cyclical" nature of American politics. He said the Democrats have already shown how they will lose upcoming American voters' faith.
"The Democrats think somehow they're going to come in and fix it," he said of the recession left behind by Bush. "But common sense: You can't spend your way out of poverty, running up your credit card. You get to buy a lot of stuff, but you end up deeper in debt. Eventually they will have to come back to the Republican party."
Interpretation: "We have fucked up things so badly that you will have no choice but to return to us."
There's their strategic offensive. Even by now, it's hard to believe they can think up such things.