"Gentlemen, to put it bluntly, you're well and truly screwed. You can try all
the road apple polishing you want, you can try rebranding, you can pretend
you're going to change, but here's the reality.
"You have blown off the entire next generation. If you're under 40 years old
(born in 1973), all you have ever seen of the Republican party are crazy,
greedy, hateful, hypocritical old coots who have never, ever done anything that
benefits you and who oppose everything you believe in. There is nobody coming
along to replenish your ranks. The one single faction you had that was young,
energetic, dynamic, and could reinvigorate you with the fresh blood you desperately
need were the Libertarians, whom you shamelessly manipulated, used, and then
repudiated. They will neither forget nor forgive the treatment received at your
hands in the Tampa convention. Rand Paul will avenge his father. They want nothing to do with you.
"They have watched you shut down the gov't, lie your way into two wars where
they bled and died and you didn't. They have watched you sell off the country
to the highest bidder. They have watched you try to force your bigoted and intolerant religious beliefs down their throats. They have watched you attempt to deny the citizens their most basic right in any democracy, the right to vote. They have watched you wage war on women, brown people, and the future. They have watched you attempting to silence any voices not your own. They have watched you spend the country into the ground then try to blame the guy who's trying to bring the country back. They want nothing to do with you.
"They see you embracing crazy, hateful old people with teabags hanging from their hats
demanding their country back. They see you attempting to destroy the government
in an effort the destroy the first black President .They see that you hate women, hate gays, hate minorities, despoil the environment, fanatically resist the future, and want to return the country to the days of their youth. They see a party defined by hate, intolerance, racism, bigotry, religious fanaticism, tribalism, ignorance, and fueled by a rage against all that is not them. They want nothing to do with you."
There is more at the link,if you scroll down a bit....
http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-gop-keeps-getting-whiter-20130314
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