GOP just waiting for Godot? Or will they institute real change?
Big tent, with an asterisk
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Monday, March 18, 4:38 PM
The Republican National Committee released a report Monday charting the party’s road to revival — only for RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to give its most important recommendations the Grand Old Punt.
Tucked into the 100-page document — mostly a compilation of prosaic suggestions such as “reinstitute field finance team structure” and “develop a surrogate list of women” — are a few crucial sentences about policies Republicans must embrace for the party to remain viable: a path to legal status for illegal immigrants and more acceptance of gay rights.
Republicans “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,” it concludes. “If we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”
Further, the report concludes, Republicans “need to make sure young people do not see the party as totally intolerant of alternative points of view. Already, there is a generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays — and for many younger voters, these issues are a gateway into whether the party is a place they want to be.”
(More here.)
The Republican National Committee released a report Monday charting the party’s road to revival — only for RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to give its most important recommendations the Grand Old Punt.
Tucked into the 100-page document — mostly a compilation of prosaic suggestions such as “reinstitute field finance team structure” and “develop a surrogate list of women” — are a few crucial sentences about policies Republicans must embrace for the party to remain viable: a path to legal status for illegal immigrants and more acceptance of gay rights.
Republicans “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,” it concludes. “If we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”
Further, the report concludes, Republicans “need to make sure young people do not see the party as totally intolerant of alternative points of view. Already, there is a generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays — and for many younger voters, these issues are a gateway into whether the party is a place they want to be.”
(More here.)
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