The latest effort by the Republican Party to become relevant again, with the launching of the Eric Cantor-led National Council for a New America (NCNA), continues to crash and burn, today, courtesy of Mike Huckabee:
A new group was recently formed that is calling itself a group of experts for the purpose of making the Republican Party attractive to voters again ... It's hard to keep from laughing out loud when people living in the bubble of the Beltway suddenly wake up one day and think they ought to have a listening tour ... For those on the listening tour, listen to this, if the party elite want to abandon principled leadership to protect life, support traditional marriage while going along with deficit exploding spending, interference and micro-managing of private business and failing to police corruption and govern competently, then hearing aids or a panel of experts won't help.”
The brain trust behind the NCNA; Cantor, Bobby Jindal, Jeb Bush, John McCain and other high powered Republicans, was to offer a change in the GOP's "pitch and its ideas." Unfortunately for them, their idea of a new direction for the party didn't include abortion, gay-marriage or immigration, which prompted immediate attacks from the even-further-right wing of the party.
Cantor continues to whine that the group "is not designed to shut out social conservatives," but the damage is done and it's become obvious that it's time for the NCNA to join the long list of failed efforts to guide the GOP out of the wilderness. So sad.