At the end of the CPAC convention, GOP chairman Reince Priebus stood up and gave a rundown of what the party found to be the problems America has with the GOP today. And while there were several bullet points, many of them were condensed to one quick sentence: The country see the GOP as a group of rigid, uncompromising white men. And even with that information, they still didn't come to the right solutions.
Mr. Priebus said that what the GOP needed to do was to make sure the GOP has a constant presence in minority areas, and back this up with a $10 million plan of getting their message out. But like every thing else, the GOP missed the point completely. The country, in saying that the GOP is seen as rigid and uncompromising white men were actually saying that the party's ideas are old and stale and not what the country wants. They said that the party's plans for tax cuts for the rich, slashing domestic spending, and abolishing national health care and turning social security, medicare and medicaid into state programs aren't in any way what they want the country to do in the future. And for the most part, they are also against GOP plans to eliminate abortions, make illegal aliens legal but make them second class citizens, and limit the rights of the LGBT community. So what will having people in those communities preaching their vision of America do for the GOP? That's right, absolutely nothing.
The GOP gave itself an autopsy to find out what the party did so poorly in the 2012 election. But like just about everything else that they think about the country, they missed the mark. That's right, the GOP can't even get their own autopsy right.
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