So in their recent pow wow, this is the conclusion for the GOP:
"Days after President Barack Obama's inauguration, Republican leaders said on Sunday their party needed to change the way it communicates, not its ideas, to win back the White House."
"Former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, appearing in his first live television interview since the Nov. 6 election, said his party needs to demonstrate that Republican ideas can improve people's lives."
"We have to show our ideas are better at fighting poverty, how our ideas are better at solving healthcare, how our ideas are better at solving the problems people are experiencing in their daily lives," the Wisconsin congressman told NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
"Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia, where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned aggressively and lost by 4 percentage points, said his party's message has failed to reach voters who don't pay close attention to politics."
"I think they don't understand the conservative message," McDonnell told CNN's "State of the Union."
"McDonnell said the party should look away from Washington and toward the country's 30 Republican governors for lessons on how to gain voters' support."
"Representative David Schweikert of Arizona said his party has failed to connect with many Americans."
"We are accountants," Schweikert said on ABC's "This Week," arguing that the Republican Party offers a more analytical approach to solving problems than Democrats. "Sometimes, though, being an accountant doesn't pull at the heart strings."
"Republican leaders gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week to address the party's future. There, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential candidate for president in 2016, told his fellow Republicans to "stop being the stupid party" and reject anti-intellectual strands within the party."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/27/republicans-2012_n_2562579.html?ref=topbar
Let's face it, if you're a Democrat, its just as well, if they're thinking this wrong about things this can only bode well. The GOP Governor model is also a mirage. Witness the Krugman take down of Jindal's supposed realism.
He pointed out that while Jindal is talking the talk, he's walking the same old failed walk, calling for the end of the income tax while raising the sales tax-sans Herman Cain.
"Mr. Jindal posed the problem in a way that would, I believe, have been unthinkable for a leading Republican even a year ago. “We must not,” he declared, “be the party that simply protects the well off so they can keep their toys. We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive.” After a campaign in which Mitt Romney denounced any attempt to talk about class divisions as an “attack on success,” this represents a major rhetorical shift."
"But Mr. Jindal didn’t offer any suggestions about how Republicans might demonstrate that they aren’t just about letting the rich keep their toys, other than claiming even more loudly that their policies are good for everyone."
"Meanwhile, back in Louisiana Mr. Jindal is pushing a plan to eliminate the state’s income tax, which falls most heavily on the affluent, and make up for the lost revenue by raising sales taxes, which fall much more heavily on the poor and the middle class. The result would be big gains for the top 1 percent, substantial losses for the bottom 60 percent. Similar plans are being pushed by a number of other Republican governors as well."
Jindal's plan sounds suspicously the Herman Cain plan; 9-9-9.
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