Title: “The GOP Faces the Blue Wall”
Author: David S. Broder
Source: The Washington Post
Date: February 8, 2009
While the GOP has been known in past years to maintain what was referred to as the “Republican lock," the party is rapidly losing their edge to what Ronald Brownstein, calls the “blue wall.” In a blatant attempt to win over a significant portion of the minority vote, Michael Steele, the former African American lieutenant governor of Maryland, was appointed to the position of the RNC's chairman a mere ten days after President Barack Obama was sworn into office.
I completely agree with Broder’s assertion that “Republicans have to change if they are going to climb that wall.” While I associate myself with the GOP, I believe that most of the party members are far too stuck in their ways to realize that they need to take far strides if they are ever going to regain the nation’s majority and win back the White House and seats in Congress. They need to become more open to the more liberal positions on abortion, immigration, stem-cell research, and the teaching of evolution if they ever want to put their more important views into action.
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Hey, Casey.
I agree that the GOP has hit a wall, regardless of Saxby Chambliss's win in the Georgia runoff and Joseph Cao's win against a convicted felon (D).
What I'm unsure about is your claim that the GOP should begin to back off some of its issues; soften its policy agenda.
I firmly believe that conservatism, and all of its tenets, can resonate with Americans. The problem of late is not that our values are outdated, its that they are terribly presented before the American people. We have endured 8 years of a, what some believe, terrible Republican president. He has destroyed the GOP brand. I think that if we get people in office who can effectively communicate their ideas to the citizenry, then we will see a resurgence of conservatism in Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, and America.
I strongly hold to this not because I am praying for the Republican Party's survival, but because I know that if we have good leaders whose messages resonate with the people, we will benefit.
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