You Can Trace Every Single GOP Message Back To Race Baiting & Race Hatred.

[Shemp Howard]

15. noir and mostlyconfused are both correct

Noir, you say that the hard-core right will never vote for Democrats. And that's very true. It is a waste of time to even try talking to them.

But mostlyconfused is also correct. Moderate Republicans do come up with decent ideas, once in a blue moon. As mostlyconfused mentioned, Rand Paul is trying to rein in the NSA.

And Eisenhower's farewell speech about the military-industrial complex was an excellent warning for us all.

The problem with the original post's title was the word "every". Replace that word with "many" or even "most", and you've got an argument that Republican moderates and independents might listen to.

As you said Noir, there are moderate Republicans (and independents) who are sick of the GOP's crazy wing. They are tired of seeing their children working two part-time jobs while company presidents make 200 million dollars a year.

We can, and should, reach out to those moderates and independents, not insult them. We might now be in the majority. Genuine converts can only increase that majority.