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    Pat Buchanan: Republican Party is 'dying of self-inflicted wounds'

    DEATH OF GOP

    WHO KILLED THE 'NEW MAJORITY'?

    Pat Buchanan: Republican Party is 'dying of self-inflicted wounds'


    by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
    Published: 1 day ago

    The Republican National Committee has produced an “autopsy” on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.

    Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.

    First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the new majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater’s defeat had left Republicans with just a third of the House and Senate.

    In 1966, Nixon led the GOP back to a stunning victory, picking up 47 House seats. In 1968, he united the Rockefeller and Reagan wings and held off an October surge by Hubert Humphrey, which cut a 13-point Nixon lead to less than a point in four weeks.

    In 1972, Nixon swept 49 states. The new majority was born. How did he do it?

    Nixon sliced off from FDR’s New Deal coalition Northern Catholics and ethnics – Irish, Italians, Poles, East Europeans – and Southern Christian conservatives. Where FDR and Woodrow Wilson had won all 11 Southern states six times, Nixon swept them all in ’72. And where Nixon won only 22 percent of the Catholic vote against JFK, he won 55 percent against George McGovern in 1972.

    What killed the new majority?

    First, there was mass immigration, which brought in 40 to 50 million people, legal and illegal, poor and working class, and almost all from the Third World. The GOP agreed to the importation of a vast new constituency that is now kicking the GOP into an early grave.

    When some implored the party in 1992 to secure the border and declare a “timeout” on legal immigration to assimilate the millions already here, the party establishment repudiated any such ideas.
    “We are a nation of immigrants!” it huffed. Well, we sure are now.

    And when amnesty is granted to the 12 million illegals, as GOP senators are preparing to do, that should advance the death of the GOP as a national party by turning Colorado, Nevada and Arizona blue, and putting even Texas in play.

    Second came party acquiescence in dropping half the nation off the income tax rolls, while making half dependent on government for food assistance, income support, rent, health care and the education of their kids from Head Start through Pell Grants.

    Why should the half of America that pays no taxes but survives on federal benefits vote for a party that will cut taxes they do not pay but roll back benefits upon which they do depend?

    Third, to accommodate its K Street bundlers, the GOP embraced globalism, empowering Corporate America to shed its U.S. labor force, move its plants to Mexico, Asia and China, bring its foreign-made goods back to the USA free of charge and pocket the difference.

    Profits, stocks, dividends soared. But the Reagan Democrats of industrial America – who paid the price in lost jobs and shuttered plants from the $10 trillion in trade deficits America has run since George H. W. Bush – have now gone home to the party of their fathers. And they are not coming back.

    Fourth, rather than bringing the troops home after our Cold War triumph and telling our allies the free rides were over, Bush I and II went crusading for a “New World Order” to “end tyranny in our world.”

    After three wars and half a dozen interventions, we are bankrupt at home and hated abroad. And Americans, sick of seeing their best and bravest brought home to Dover or being fitted at Walter Reed for prosthetic arms and legs, have twice voted for an anti-interventionist president.

    Yet, one matter over which the GOP had no control is the triumph of the counterculture.

    What might be called the old morality – that abortion is the killing of an unborn child, an abomination, that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral – has been relegated by scores of millions, especially among the young, to the dark ages of the 20th century.

    Americans who adhere to this traditional morality, rooted in Christian tradition and biblical truth, are culturally outgunned and may now be outnumbered. They may have lost America for good.

    What can the GOP do about this? Nothing.

    What will the GOP do? Probably what comes naturally – declare itself “tolerant” and respectful of all views, pro-life and pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and pro-traditional marriage.

    Reality must be faced. A generation has grown up rejecting the truths that its grandparents lived. And while population growth among our native born halted decades ago, scores of millions have come in from abroad to fill the empty spaces. And they are still coming. They like what Big Government has to offer, and seem uninterested in what the GOP has to sell.

    In that case, you try harder to sell your product, change your product or go out of business.

    Yet, if the GOP changes its product, it may just lose its most loyal customers.

    When the obituary of the party is written, the subhead will likely read, “Dead of self-inflicted wounds.”

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    How to finish off the GOP in less than 300 words …

    by STEVE DEACE on MARCH 26, 2013

    There are lot of stories — and I mean A LOT of stories — these past few days on the marriage issue, including Karl Rove saying he can envision a 2016 Republican presidential candidate opposing marriage. But what if the next Republican nominee actually opposed marriage?

    If that were to happen, I would also envision President Hillary Clinton by a historic landslide in 2016.

    A Republican presidential nominee who opposes marriage, or even appears to be squishy on it, cannot possibly win a general election.

    Let me repeat that: a Republican presidential nominee who opposes marriage, or even appears to be squishy on it, CANNOT POSSIBLY WIN A GENERAL ELECTION.

    That’s because the party’s massive social conservative base is already in revolt, and will just keep leaving in droves (just ask President Romney). Without those voters, there are now too many of the other voters who will not vote against their big government gravy train. If the Republican say we’ll give everybody a free house, the Democrats will just say we’ll give everybody a free house that’s furnished. And so on and so on…

    It won’t matter where a nominee who opposes marriage stands on the other issues, because if you get this fundamental issue of existence wrong then that massive social conservative base won’t trust you to act on any of those anyway (and history shows they shouldn’t). A Republican trying to win the presidency without social conservatives is like a Democrat trying to win the presidency without labor unions. So if the GOP abandons marriage, it’s essentially abandoning national elections faster than you can say Hispanic voters.

    Something tells me I’ll have to post this many times between now and 2016.

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    COL ALLEN WEST TELLS CONSERVATIVES IT IS TIME TO FIGHT: 'BENDED KNEE' WILL NEVER BE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION - Col. Allen West, a man who knows what it is like to put his life on the line for American freedom, challenged Conservatives to not back down to the assault on freedom and the American way being conducted by Far Left Extremists. “I’ll give it to you straight...this movement and this fight is not determined by the punches that we take. We’re defined by how quickly we pull ourselves off the mat and our perseverance. There’re no shortage of people telling us what conservatism cannot accomplish, what we can’t do, how we cannot connect, how we must change our values to fit the times. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you: That that truly is a bunch of malarkey. Last time I checked,” he continued, “a bended knee is not, nor shall it ever be a conservative tradition.” He then added a key point, “I’m speaking from experience when I tell you that there is nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government,” AMEN COL WEST

    Click like if you agree with Col. West that we will not bow down to the far left extremists attack on the American way, and that their biggest nightmare are men like him, who want a better life and smaller Government, not subjugation to the Democratic party and a life of poverty and dependence.
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