This has to be the most bizarre exchange I have ever witnessed between a Tea Party nut-job (Sarah Palin crowd) and a real life, smart and educated, Republican Conservative: (link)
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This is the kind of infighting and extremism that is destroying the Republican Party at its core. Party leadership is letting the loudest, most extreme and sometimes ignorant factions of the party go out and preach to the masses their message of conspiracy theories, anarchy and the atypical, the world is ending message.RLinAZ
People get turned off by this approach as this is the laughable approach by extreme Conservative faith based radicals like Pat Robertson who give the GOP a bad name.
In a time and day, when they party needs to organize as a united front and stand behind a common theme and platform that will be front and center come 2016, you have the Conservatives saying this. Moderates saying that and the extremists drawing all the wrong types of attention.
The Republican Party needs a Howard Dean type personality that is going to stand up and take control of the reigns and the outgoing message. Someone that can coordinate the narrative and creative an attack plan on multiple fronts. Someone who can also be crafty and creative with defense plans to hold certain seats in play with a recent showing that things might be to close for comfort in 2014 and 2016.
If Chris Christie is going to be the best shot and lead horse heading out of the GOP convention, than I suggest letting his people get into the mix and start this process now.
Sitting around and thinking, that a misaligned roll out of ObamaCare will be your parties saving grace is a horribly bad idea.
There will be several debt ceiling and government shutdown situations between now and key election dates in 2014 and 16. If the current leadership caves like it did to the Tea Party with the recent shutdown, you risk the chance of alienating your Conservative base who want to have nothing to do with the Palin's and Cruz's of the political world.
Besides, shutting down the entire political machine on the hill accomplished nothing, cost tax payer's millions and really hurt the Republican brand in the long run.
On the fence, non party affiliated voters like me will either shy away or be turned off from the spin and idea that the Republican Party is holding the economy hostage again.
Voters like me, who could go either way are the ones you need to get back into the White House and possibly grab control of the entire Congress and White House once again.
Realistically, I don't see that happening till the current GOP leadership does an about face and realizes that what is best about your party is going back to core Conservative values and refusing to aligning your political fortunes with them could end up costing your party everything!
