Michelle Bachmann, how intelligent are you?

The Jewish people know what is right for them, do you expect them to be a nut like you?  The boot licker Romney would have bombed Iran to "appease" his friend Netanyahu and destroyed American economy with job losses, divorces, business shut downs and budget deficits. Thank God for Obama, he used his brains and is working on preventing a war, all of us would prosper with the deal.

You are a bloody war monger committed to destroy America by pushing America to war with Iran. Bush's war has destroyed us, you want more? Do you care about America?

Mike Ghouse
A Moderate Republican

Michele Bachmann Is Disappointed That American Jews 'Sold Out' By Supporting Obama

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Michele Bachmann is deeply disappointed with the American Jewish community for supporting President Barack Obama, whose policies she believes will reduce Israel to "rubble."

The Minnesota Republican on Monday took particular issue with President Obama's recent agreement with Iran after he successfully lobbied Congress to temporarily hold off on additional sanctions in hopes of reaching a larger deal on nuclear weapons.

"The Jewish community gave him their votes, their support, their financial support and as recently as last week, 48 Jewish donors who are big contributors to the president wrote a letter to the Democrat senators in the U.S. Senate to tell them to not advance sanctions against Iran. This is clearly against Israel’s best interest," Bachmann told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, as quoted by Right Wing Watch.
Bachmann also chided organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which boosted Obama by backing off its push for a swift vote on new sanctions.

"What has been shocking has been seeing and observing Jewish organizations who it appears have made it their priority to support the political priority and the political ambitions of the President over the best interests of Israel," she added. "So in some respects, they sold out Israel."

The congresswoman has many opinions about the election of Barack Obama, including a belief that he owes his two national victories to white guilt.

Shame on Boehner, Cantor, Ayote, McCarthy and Priebus are out of their minds

I hope to keep this as a record, to stick in the face of fellow Republicans for farting from their mouths.

GOP memo reveals anti-Obamacare strategy, its all here on video with Chris Matthews on 11/21/23 http://on.msnbc.com/1dmi8O7

Mike Ghouse

John Boehner signs up for Obama care, this is hilarious!

THIS IS HILARIOUS! SPEAKER BOEHNER HAS SIGNED UP OBAMA CARE... Al Sharpton is having a field day on this http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation Boehner has been opposing it endlessly... what a hypocrite.

We the moderate Republicans need to speak up before we lose the majority in the house - may be we should sit on sidelines until the radicals among us come to senses, and I am a Republican and I do not approve what the GOP leadership is getting away with.

These dudes have been shamelessly anti-Obama.
Mike Ghouse

The Cry of the True Republican by John Taft

This has been my cry, and screaming to save the party from the extremists Republican Talibans, who will sink the party in 2014. Ted Cruz is bad news for America.
Mike Ghouse

nytimes.com

The Cry of the True Republican

• by JOHN G. TAFT 
•  Oct. 22, 2013 
•  original

I AM a genetic Republican.

Five generations of Taft's have served our nation as unwaveringly stalwart Republicans, from Alphonso Taft, who served as attorney general in the late 19th century, through William Howard Taft, who not only was the only person to be both president of the United States and chief justice of the United States but also served as the chief civil administrator of the Philippines and secretary of war, to my cousin, Robert Taft, a two-term governor of Ohio.

As I write, a photograph of my grandfather, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, looks across at me from the wall of my office. He led the Republican Party in the United States Senate in the 1940s and early 1950s, ran for the Republican nomination for president three times and was known as “Mr. Republican.” If he were alive today, I can assure you he wouldn’t even recognize the modern Republican Party, which has repeatedly brought the United States of America to the edge of a fiscal cliff — seemingly with every intention of pushing us off the edge.

Throughout my family’s more than 170-year legacy of public service, Republicans have represented the voice of fiscal conservatism. Republicans have been the adults in the room. Yet somehow the current generation of party activists has managed to do what no previous Republicans have been able to do — position the Democratic Party as the agents of fiscal responsibility.

Speaking through the night, Senator Ted Cruz, with heavy-lidded, sleep-deprived eyes, conveyed not the libertarian element in Republican philosophy that advocates for smaller government and less intrusion into the personal lives of citizens. but a new, virulent strain of empty nihilism: “blow it up if we can’t get what we want.”

This recent display of bomb-throwing obstructionism by Republicans in Congress evokes another painful, historically embarrassing chapter in the Republican Party — that of Senator Joseph McCarthy, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, whose anti-Communist crusade was allowed by Republican elders to expand unchecked, unnecessarily and unfairly tarnishing the reputations of thousands of people with “Red Scare” accusations of Communist affiliation. Finally Senator McCarthy was brought up short during the questioning of the United States Army’s chief counsel, Joseph N. Welch, who at one point demanded the senator’s attention, then said: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” He later added: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Watching the Republican Party use the full faith and credit of the United States to try to roll back Obamacare, watching its members threaten not to raise the debt limit — which Warren Buffett rightly called a “political weapon of mass destruction” — to repeal a tax on medical devices, I so wanted to ask a similar question: “Have you no sense of responsibility? At long last, have you left no sense of responsibility?”

There is more than a passing similarity between Joseph McCarthy and Ted Cruz, between McCarthyism and the Tea Party movement. The Republican Party survived McCarthyism because, ultimately, its excesses caused it to burn out. And eventually party elders in the mold of my grandfather were able to realign the party with its brand promise: The Republican Party is (or should be) the Stewardship Party. The Republican brand is (or should be) about responsible behavior. The Republican party is (or should be) at long last, about decency.

What a long way we have yet to go.

John G. Taft is the author of “Stewardship: Lessons Learned From the Lost Culture of Wall Street.”

America's hero Obama, and its Villian Ted Cruz

The Good news as of this morning, Thursday, October 17, 2013, the US Government is back in business.  Thank God for my fellow Republicans – the ranking ones like John McCain, Mitch McConnel and a whole lot of them for taking the action. Its a victory to Obama and victory to a majority of Americans for what he represents; Americans!  I have told Republicans to speak up against the extremists among us, I am glad they finally did.

 
Ted Cruz is the villain of our nation, and the villain of the ordinary Americans. He persisted because good Republicans did nothing about his evil designs. Finally an unprecedented thing happened - 88 out of 100 Senators have passed the bill, still 12 of them did not approve, and that is OK, that is how democracies function, at least some opposition is needed. As long as the majority is sensible and cares about America, we can move forward.

Ted screwed the Republican Party,  “his act cannot be approved by conservative Republicans either, who prefer stability over chaos, and are disciplined enough to follow a system. That is how democracies work.”  John McCain has rightly called them Wacko birds.

The stupidity in my party is that a majority of them are goats, sheep, and conformists. No one has the balls to stand up against a handful of bullies – now we have learned the lesson. But it’s going to cost the house in 2014. I am afraid my favorite congressman Pete Sessions will be gone, is there any moderate Republican out there to take his place? 

Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/obama-care-is-good-for-am_b_4082498.html

Action for Republicans by Republicans - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/10/action-for-republicans-by-republicans.html

http://republicanmoderates.blogspot.com/2013/10/government-shut-down-ted-cruz-and.html

These two are good for now.

Mike Ghouse is a speaker on Pluralism and offers pluralistic solution on issues of the day.  He is a moderate Republican committed to speak up against the tyranny of the extremists among the Republicans.

Crazy Republican Liz Cheney's agenda

Our stupidity is all cornered into the cespool called Republican Territory. This is the dumbest campaign agenda, I have seen.

Its hard to understand the people in the Wyoming, if they vote for her. A candidate should bring a sense of safety and not scare the shit out of people. 

This is pathetic, we have to fix our party before it is swallowed by idiots.

Mike Ghouse,
A Moderate Republican

10 Fun Facts About Wyoming Senate Candidate Liz Cheney

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/10-important-facts-about-liz-cheney

Republicans, I told you so!

The GOP needs to listen to guys like me who are critical of the leadership. We will fix you up guys, on you own, you don't have the brains to see your problems. You don't see that you are war mongers, you don't see that you are anti-middle America, you don't see that you are anti-equality of women,  you don't' see that you are anti-liberty, you don't see your double talk about liberty, you don't see that you want to force women to obey you, you don't see that you want to intrude in private lives of gays and lesbians, and you have illogical hatred for Muslims. Are you really conservatives? These are not conservative values, these are values of the frightened bulls that attack anything in sight.

We the moderates are here to fix you, its time you listen to us. We have nothing to gain, no one to dupe, but to do good for America with a strong two party system that represents the will of the people. 

I see a ray of hope, and glad that GOP is waking up to the post Mortem report. Maggie Haberman writes at Politico, " The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways. Among the RNC’s proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform, addressing middle-class economic anxieties head on and condensing a presidential primary process that saw Mitt Romney get battered for months ahead of the general election."

The leadership was and perhaps is too dumb to realize that it was the Republican moderates who mercilessly dumped the self-proclaimed extremists, disguised as conservatives like Bachman, Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, Perry and others.

Romney is deficient in morals, two days after the expose on MSNBC about his blatant lying, he had the audacity to tell the CPAC that his remarks were for private audience. So a man like him will say one thing to his privates and one to the public. Do America need these kind of men? Do we need to dump him as an useless guy and move on, or grill him about his morality? I am embarrassed that he got the applause at CPAC, what are the folks at CPAC made of?

Any way Romney played moderate during the first half of the primaries, when others fell, he became the tortoise who would clutch the nomination, so he cheated the conservative by playing conservative, and  got the nomination.  The Chameleon was ready for the next phase to play moderate to wean Obama supporters, and played their game. Of course that ruthless shameless remark of 47% got him nailed.

I thank God every day, that we don't have that idiot as our president. Imagine what he would have done, to please the few, who do not even represent American or the Israeli public, he would have gone to war with Iran to please the bone thrower Netanyahu and eggers like Gingrich, Santorum and their Gang. He  would have screwed America, did it matter to him? No, he was secure with his money stashed away in Bahamas. Did he care about the 47%?. Thank you lord for saving America from another disaster.

We the moderate republicans are the genuine base of Republicans, and not the rabble rousers like Karl Rove, Limbaugh and others who kept lying to the GOP through the end. Either they had no idea or were simply duping the public. GOP does not matter to them, the money it brings to them does. 

Wake up Priebus, learn the truth and listen to the moderates, we have been telling about this.  America needs to stand firmly on the two party system, we cannot afford to lose the house in 2014, if we don't speak out against the daily stupidities coming out of Republicans, we will lose the majority. Mark my words, I am going to tell you,  I told you so. 

Mike Ghouse is a Republican committed to moderation to preserve the plurality of our country, which is overwhelmingly moderate.


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RNC: Voters see GOP as ‘scary’ and ‘out of touch' Read more:
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Republicans are losing not because of Obama, but for our own stupidities

We the Republicans are losing everywhere, not necessarily because Obama is doing the right things, but because we are doing all the dumb and stupid things.

John McCain, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham expressed their belligerence in the nomination process of Chuck Hagel and John Brennan. Obama is too civilized to show them his finger. Furthermore Obama does not want to waste time in engaging in unnecessary debates and that makes him a winner against these losers. Dianne Feisenstein had literally tell Graham to shut up during the hearings.

There is not a day that goes by without a stupid comment from a Republican. The only saving grace is Rand Paul and Ted Cruz who fried Eric Holder in giving an answer. If I were Obama, I would tell Eric not to waste public’s money. If a question is asked, damn it give a straight answer and don’t dance around it. Just tell it like it is, we do not kill American Citizens on our land, any conditions, period.

We were disgraceful in not acknowledging the lowering unemployment figures of 7.7%, we are so hateful towards Obama that we don’t’ event want to give him the credit for that. It is as if we wanted Americans to suffer and not have the job, we are on the path of self destruction. I hope we the moderates can speak out strongly and save our party.

Today some of the Republican nuts send me a link where Michelle Obama selected singer Adele to sing on her 50th birthday. Now they are picking on her. The Americans have voted them in, and simply accept it. She is not doing anything different than Laura, Barbara, Nancy, Rosalyn or Jackie. I think we should rise above pettiness.

When we don't have something substantial, we resort to these. I am the best thing Republicans can ever get; I do not praise them when they display their stupidities, and I speak up and keep waking them up so they don’t lose out big in 2014.

We cannot afford jerks like Bachman itching non-stop to defund Obama care, it is there, accept it and move on. Don’t waste our time in chasing the losing causes. I really feel sorry for the Minnesotans for electing her.

Mike Ghouse is a moderate Republican, who see through the stupidities of the party and speaks out. He cares about checks and balances and does not want the Republican Party to be slaughtered in 2014. We need to have strong two party systems to have stability in our policies. 

_______ Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on the topics of Pluralism, Coexistence, politics, interfaith, Islam and cohesive societies. He is committed to building a cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.

What's the Republican problem?

I just got this in email, of course, it is has the political tones, but still, the Republican leadership is not in touch with the public. Are they looking to give up in 2014?

Mike

Tell Eric Cantor and extremist House Republicans: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act

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Dear Mike,

Ten Republicans in the House have broken rank with their party and are now joining Democrats in support of reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. It's time to increase the public pressure on the other 231 Republicans in the House who, in an appalling act of extremist intransigence, are blocking a bill which should pass with broad bipartisan support.

Women's lives are at risk, and there is no more time for partisan delay.

Tell Eric Cantor and extremist House Republicans: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

Outrageously, news reports coming out of Washington, DC suggest that Rep. Eric Cantor, a member of Republican leadership in the House, is blocking a vote until a key protection for Native American women is stripped from the bill.¹

In response, Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin wrote a letter to House Leadership asking for an immediate vote on the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act.² In a cowardly move, House Republicans are refusing to hold a vote on the bill so they don't have to go on record voting against fundamental protections for battered women. Instead, Republicans rammed through a fake version of the Violence Against Women Act. But luckily, women's advocates in Congress have held firm and that sham vote didn't work to take the heat off Republicans in the House.

Ten Republicans signed Rep. Gwen Moore's letter to House leadership supporting an immediate vote on the real Violence Against Women Act reauthorization.³ Momentum is now on our side. We need to shame the remaining Republicans, and pressure them to allow an up-or-down vote on the bill.

Tell Eric Cantor and extremist House Republicans: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

VAWA is an incredibly popular and successful program that has reduced domestic violence rates by 58% since it was first passed in 1994. And it was approved in bipartisan votes every year since it was originally passed — until Republicans began using it as a leverage tool to get what they want.

House Republicans have voted for shameful bills to redefine rape, defund Planned Parenthood, and to let women die. Still, despite their appalling record on women's issues, you might think that Republicans in Congress would have some concern for domestic violence survivors. You'd be wrong.

Republican leadership in the House have the ability to immediately call a vote on the Violence Against Women Act, and reauthorize the protections that are making a critical difference. But for the sake of pushing an extremist agenda through the House and holding protections for women hostage in the process, he's putting the lives of women at risk — like the 34% of Native American women who are victims of attempted or completed rape in their lifetimes.

Tell Eric Cantor and extremist House Republicans: Stop blocking the Violence Against Women Act. Click below to automatically sign the petition:
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1. Jennifer Bendery, "Violence Against Women Act: Eric Cantor, Joe Biden In Talks Amid Stalled Tribal Provision." Huffington Post, 12/6/12.
2. Jennifer Bendery, "Violence Against Women Act: John Boehner, Eric Cantor Pressured By Republicans To Act." Huffington Post, 12/11/12.
3. The Republican members of Congress who signed Rep. Gwen Moore's letter demanding an immediate vote on Violence Against Women Act reauthorization were: Reps. Judy Biggert (Ill.), Ted Poe (Texas), Richard Hanna (N.Y.), Joe Heck (Nev.), Patrick Meehan (Pa.), Robert Dold (Ill.), Chris Gibson (N.Y.), Jon Runyon (N.J.), David Reichert (Wash.) and Michael Fitzpatrick (Pa.)

Allen west is a liability to GOP

URL- http://republicanmoderates.blogspot.com/2012/12/allen-west-is-liability-to-gop.html

Dear Fellow Republicans,

I just had a panel  discussion at the United Methodist Church, there was a unanimity about the Republicans living in Bubble.  We need to bloody wake up and look how ugly we look to the public, we really need to pull our heads out of sand.

Congressman Allen West is a liability to the Republican party or any civil organization, he made bigoted statements to the extreme, it is repulsive to any American, except the pig headed among us.

The Republican chair from Georgia was inviting him to run from her state, what's wrong with her?

Don't we realize that a majority of us are moderates, look at what we did, we dumped the extremists like Santorum, Bachman, Cain, and Gingrich in the primaries, and the American Public dumped Nine of them guys who needed a lesson in math and biology. Romney was a good guy, but did not have a firmness to his character, had it been others, Obama would have swept the Republicans completely. 

Its time to listen to sanity, any public figure that treats a fellow American with contempt must be booted out of the party. Allen West should be the first one to get the boot.

We want an America, where every one one God's creation is respected. 

Mike Ghouse
A Moderate Republican
www.MikeGhouse.net

Florida Muslims making a difference in the vote

MUSTAFA DANDASHLY

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/26/3108573/florida-muslims-making-a-difference.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/26/3108573/florida-muslims-making-a-difference.html

By MUSTAFA DANDASHLY

mdandashly@gmail.com

The words weren’t uttered by an angry protestor or on some right-wing blog. They were uttered by U.S. Rep. Allen West in response to a Muslim man’s questions — at a town hall meeting, of all places: “Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt . . . put the microphone down and go home.”
On Election Day, Rep. West, a tea-party favorite, suffered a devastating loss to Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy in Florida’s 18th congressional district. West built his political career by defaming and insulting Muslims in America and, this month, American Muslims and their neighbors kicked West out of office. The Muslim community and its allies overwhelmingly supported Murphy with their votes and contributions. 

West did not lose because the majority of the people in his congressional district are Muslim. West lost because the American Muslim vote made an unprecedented showing in South Florida. With Murphy’s margin of victory less than 2,000 votes, Muslim community engagement helped other fed-up citizenry stand up against bigotry and hatred. Ironically, the hatred espoused by the likes of West has helped these communities realize the importance of civic engagement. Civic participation through voting has helped the Muslim community put action to the urgency felt by the growing tide of anti-Islamic sentiment.

American Muslims finally have a seat at the table, and they have the numbers to prove it. As a relatively new minority community in the United States, American Muslims have struggled to find their voice and in making that voice heard in the political fray. However, in recent years, this community has seen enormous growth in several swing states, most notably in Florida. 

American Muslims have voted both Democratic and Republican in the past, making them a large and important group in the courtship of minority voters around election time. 

Florida was a key state in the 2012 presidential elections, with President Obama edging out a win over Gov. Mitt Romney by less than 75,000 votes. Emerge USA, a civic engagement nonprofit organization that focuses on engaging minority communities, specifically the Muslim, Arab and Southeast Asian communities, maintains a database of over 150,000 registered Muslim voters in Florida, with exit polls showing 120,000 of them voted in November. Of these 120,000 votes, an overwhelming 80 percent went to Obama. Sadly, neither party courted the Muslim vote this year, yet the presidential race could have turned out dramatically different without the Muslim American vote.

Stories like West’s are taking place across the country as American Muslims become engaged in the political process with help from organizations like Emerge USA. Many in the community come from backgrounds of political dictatorship and oppression, where voting may not be commonplace and speaking out against the government is particularly dangerous. Civic engagement organizations are serving a largely educational role as the community develops into the political powerhouse it can become.

As newcomers on the scene, Muslims have made great strides in the realization that voting is the simplest, most effective way to influence change in their own lives and in the lives of others.

Contrary to what West believes, American Muslims are indeed Americans. They care about the Constitution, they care about society and they care about domestic issues. A recent poll by Emerge USA shows that 47 percent of Muslim voters polled in Florida believe the economy was the most important issue. Foreign policy garnered a measly 8 percent. 

This data shows that American Muslims are here for the same reasons as everyone else — to raise a family, to establish economic stability, and to gain a higher standard of living.
What presidential candidate can afford to lose 150,000 votes in a state as crucial as Florida?
American Muslims, welcome to the table.

Mustafa Dandashly is a student at the FIU College of Law and an advisor to Emerge USA.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/26/3108573/florida-muslims-making-a-difference.html#storylink=cpy

Could Muslims Swing the Goergia runoff?

 It does not take a million votes to win or lose, sometimes, it is just a few thousand votes and Muslims could make that difference, as Jews, African Americans, Hispanics and others.  We have to wait and see. Mike Ghouse

New America Media, News Report, Hazem Kira

Editor’s Note: Muslim voters could have a ripple effect on the close Georgia Senate race runoff says NAM contributor Hazem Kira.

Apparently, Nov. 4 wasn’t the last stop for American Muslims this election season. For the past two weeks, leaders and activists have been rallying community members in a series of "get out the vote" events prior to Georgia’s Senate runoff elections on Dec. 2 to get out large numbers to the polls. 

Muslim leaders are pushing hard for a stated goal of twice the state average for runoff elections, which tends to be around 30 to 35 percent, according to Georgia’s Secretary of State.

Arguably, a successful swing vote by Muslim Georgians will have a ripple effect way beyond the state lines of Georgia.

"Muslims could be four to six percent of the total voter turnout, if once again more than 70 percent of the eligible Muslim voters show up at the polling stations," says Dr. Agha Saeed, chair of a prominent umbrella organization, the American Muslim Taskforce (AMT). 

According to a post-Nov. 4 election survey commissioned by the AMT, and conducted by Genesis Research Associates, 95 percent of eligible Muslim Americans — both nationally and in states like Georgia — voted in the general elections. This is the highest voter turnout among all socio-religious communities. 

A unified four percent vote in Georgia could be a decisive factor in such a close race where recent polls show the Republican candidate Saxby Chambliss with a narrow four-point lead over Democratic nominee Jim Martin.

It is believed that the massive turnout by Muslims and other minorities in Georgia, during the general elections, helped move the once strong Republican state, which gave George W. Bush in 2004 a lead of over 15 percent, towards a relatively narrow lead of only 5.2 percent for John McCain.

Georgia Muslims, who tend to have a Republican streak, says Chris Burke of Georgia’s Council on American Islamic Relations, have been moving towards the Democratic Party after sensing hostility by many Republican leaders. 

Many Muslim Republicans strongly oppose Chambliss after his infamous remarks, immediately after September 11 that Georgia ought to "arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line." 

"Every Muslim I’ve spoken to knows of this statement and is intent on voting for his Democratic opponent," says political activist and Georgia native Saeed Raees.

Such remarks remind many Atlanta Muslims, most of whom are African American, of Georgia’s pro-segregation stance during the 1960′s Civil Rights Movement. 

"For American Muslims, civil liberties and the economy are by far the most pressing issues in this state’s runoff election," says Burke.

But regardless of who wins, says Salim Akhtar, an AMT national coordinator who was on the ground galvanizing the state’s Muslim voters, "I believe that the vote in Georgia will once again demonstrate the voting prowess of American Muslims, and how they have defied all odds to empower themselves."

Karen Hughes: I'll 'cut out' the tongue of GOPers talking rape

Karen, don't cut the tongue, instead give a lesson in Biology, I am planning to develop a leadership program for GOP and I will enlist you to speak, and put a barrier in front of the front seat.  Stupid statements were made nine known candidates, including Paul Ryan. Where do they go to School?  Mike Ghouse

 

 

By MAGGIE HABERMAN | Courtesy of Politico

Former George W. Bush adviser Karen Hughes dissects the lessons learned from the 2012 race on our home page, and cites a key one for the Republican party:

Finally, the Republican Party has to set a tone that is more respectful, positive and inclusive. The immigration rhetoric that came out of the Republican primary seemed harsh, unwelcoming and off putting to many minority voters. Obama increased his share of the Hispanic vote and won it 69 percent to 29 percent (per The New York Times exit poll); likewise he built a huge margin among Asian voters, 74-25, almost doubling the margin of his support compared to 2008. Both of those constituencies are hardworking, upwardly mobile, family-oriented, and should be open to Republican appeals if we don’t make them feel unwelcome.

And if another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of “legitimate rape.”

We've written about the problem that talking about abortion has caused for Republicans this cycle. Hughes' comments reflect a broader concern within the party, and an issue Republicans have to address.

Paul, 49, was elected on the tea party wave that fueled GOP landslide victories in 2010, often declaring on the campaign trail that he had a “message” from the tea party: “We have come to take our government back.”

Ted Cruz On Latino Vote: Republicans Need To 'Do Better'

I voted for Ted Cruz and I am glad he makes this statement, "If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House." if Republicans do not include.  More sane voices will emerge. Mike Ghouse

Courtesy : Huffington Post

Less than a week after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was candid about the GOP's troubles courting Latino voters.

In an interview with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, Cruz opened up about concerns in some of the nation's largest states, headed by Texas.

“If Republicans do not do better in the Hispanic community, in a few short years Republicans will no longer be the majority party in our state," he said.

Cruz added that losing a state like Texas, which carried 38 electoral votes in 2012, would hold national implications.

“If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House," he said. "New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won’t be talking about Ohio, we won’t be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won’t matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party."

Cruz' words paralleled those of Mitt Romney adviser Carlos Gutierrez, who said on Sunday that Latinos were "scared of the Republican party." The former Commerce Secretary attributed that fear to the presidential primary process, which he said forces candidates "to say outrageous things."

President Barack Obama was reelected last Tuesday with the help of near-record levels of Latino support. Various polls found the incumbent Democrat securing more than 70 percent of that voting bloc.

Bobby Jindal: GOP Should 'Stop Being The Stupid Party'

I know Jindal waited to say this after the elections, he did not want to be the one to derail the election. Once again, bad things simply happen because good people do nothing about it. I am glad Jindal spoke up, and I have done my part when Romney said the uncouth things - Mike Ghouse

Courtesy: Huffington Post

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hurled harsh criticism at his own party after the GOP was blindsided in the 2012 elections, telling Republicans to end "dumbed-down conservatism" by putting a stop to "offensive, bizarre" comments.

“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments -- enough of that,” Jindal told Politico. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”

Jindal told Politico Republicans should “stop being the stupid party” by working to embrace a larger group of constituents rather than becoming the party of "big anything."

The GOP governor criticized the idea that the GOP is "the party that simply protects the rich." Jindal even took a jab at Mitt Romney's now-infamous "47 percent" remarks, noting Republicans would have to be more inclusive going forward.

“The Republican Party is going to fight for every single vote,” he said. “That means the 47 percent and the 53 percent, that means any other combination of numbers going up to 100 percent.”

Other Republicans have attempted to explain the GOP's election failure in less harsh terms. Karl Rove gave nearly two dozen reasons for Republicans' election night losses, while 2012 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan said "urban areas" gave Obama the boost he needed to win.