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GOP needs action, not navel-gazing
By Bobby Jindal

We’ve had enough. Yes, we just lost our second straight presidential election to Barack Obama. Yes, losing is painful and has consequences. Yes, when you lose, you make adjustments. Enough already. Let’s get on with it.

Yes, we have plenty of changes to make. I’ve offered a list of seven ideas for change, former Gov. Jeb Bush has offered substantive thoughts, as have Senators Rubio, Johnson, Paul, and others. The points these gentlemen have made are sensible and merit serious discussion. And it should go without saying that we should continually challenge our own assumptions and evaluate our standing.

But excessive navel gazing leads to paralysis. At present it looks as if the entire Republican party needs to go to counseling. It’s really getting embarrassing, all these public professions of feelings of inadequacy. Every day it seems another jilted high-placed Republican in Washington is confessing to the voters; “It’s not you, it’s me…”

Republican political correctness is all the rage, and it’s all roughly the same: we need to stop being conservative… we need to abandon our principles (at least the ones that don’t poll well)… we need to let the smart guys in Washington pick our candidates…we need big data and analytics so we can optimize… we need to be more libertarian…we need to endorse abortion…we need fewer debates…and the list goes on.

The overall level of panic and apology from the operative class in our party is absurd and unmerited. It’s time to stop the bedwetting.

Let’s remember a few things:

1) We have 30 Governors

2) We took control of the House in 2010 and held it in 2012

3) Obama ran a tremendous campaign in 2008, and our outgoing president was unpopular

4) The just completed presidential campaign strategy of playing it safe and assuming a poor economy would win it for us was an obvious mistake.

How about we take all of this energy being spent on autopsies and focus it on painting a picture for the American public, particularly for young people, of what a free and prosperous American future will look like with smart conservative policies.

No more self-analysis; we’ve had our catharsis. The season for navel gazing has passed.

Let’s stop defeating ourselves, get on offense, and go kick the other guys around. If you’ve followed the news over the past month, they are certainly asking for it. We are the conservative party in America — deal with it. We have a lot of dissenting voices. So what? Deal with it. The American public waxes and wanes. Fine. It will wax again soon enough. Deal with it, and start fighting for our principles instead of against them, so we can be in position to create the next wave.

At some point, the American public is going to revolt against the nanny state and the leftward march of this president. I don’t know when the tipping point will come, but I believe it will come soon.

Why?

Because the left wants: The government to explode; to pay everyone; to hire everyone; they believe that money grows on trees; the earth is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing; debts don’t have to be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn babies don’t matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats; the Israelis are unreasonable; trans-fat must be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient; wild weather is a new thing; moral standards are passé; government run health care is high quality; the IRS should violate our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi was handled well; the Second Amendment is outdated; and the First one has some problems too.

Their philosophy does not work and it got our nation into the mess it’s in.

Eventually Americans will rise up against this new era of big government and this new reign of politically correct terror. In the meantime Republicans — hold fast, get smarter, get disciplined, get on offense, and put on your big boy pants. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/bobby-jindal-opinion-gop-needs-a
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His argument goes that the party won control of the House in 2010, and have 30 governors, therefore they must represent the country. However, this overlooks a lot of facts. More people voted for Democratic candidates than Republican for congress but due to gerrymandered districts the Republicans held onto power. And while the Republican governors’ map looks impressive, once you study it, something clear shows up.

While, yes, the Republicans do have 30 governor offices, the majority of them are in low-population states which do not have a major impact on national politics. And for those in high-population states, many of those governors are being frozen out of the national party due to not being conservative enough, with the party rejecting their success. Indeed, studies find that an ever-growing numbers of people are rejecting the Republican party outright ( http://www.gallup.com/poll/159740/democrats-establish-lead-party-affil
iation.aspx) and if the elections were held today, the Democrats would take over the House with a solid majority*.

Governor Jindal’s argument then presumed that the nation will reject what he calls the “Nanny State.” But when he describes it, he recycles the old, long disproven arguments which the Republicans have held up for years. Instead of offering solutions, he offers up the failed policies of George W. Bush, with the promise that “this time it will work, honest!” He is writing a letter to a base which no longer exists.

This is a piece written by someone who views themselves as the natural leader for the party. It is an introduction before a presidential run in 2016. He hopes to reunite his fractured party under the same banner from which George W. Bush led it in 2000. However, this is not 2000 anymore. Instead of addressing the issues of the party, he instead finds himself out of step with the nation as a whole. www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/19/bobby-jindal-calls-for-republican-par
ty-to-destroy-itself-in-fight-for-ideological-purity/#ixzz2WrxeGPnb]

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