MUCH More or less CRAZY ; This was a comprehensive guide to the Republican Party at its lamest, a sum total of all of the things that make its national leaders turn red and curse off-mic. That was what the Growth and Opportunity Project (GOP—see what they did there?) was supposed to fix. The five-member committee, a project of the Republican National Committee, was launched in December—after the Romney debacle but before party chairman Reince Priebus had won a second two-year term. The Republican Party had just won the white vote while losing everybody else. To find out why, the RNC tapped a white woman, a Hispanic woman, a black man, a Jewish guy, and one white male from the South—a veritable Captain Planet cast.
Their 100-page report was an impressive work of hair-shirting. “The Republican party needs to stop talking to itself,” they wrote. “The perception that the GOP does not care about people is doing great harm to the Party.” They made no mention of abortion and no mention of marriage. “Among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond,” they wrote, “must be to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” At the press conference where they rolled this out, Puerto Rican team member Zori Fonalledas gave the reform pitch en Espanol before repeating it in English.
MUCH More or less CRAZY ; This was a comprehensive guide to the Republican Party at its lamest, a sum total of all of the things that make its national leaders turn red and curse off-mic. That was what the Growth and Opportunity Project (GOP—see what they did there?) was supposed to fix. The five-member committee, a project of the Republican National Committee, was launched in December—after the Romney debacle but before party chairman Reince Priebus had won a second two-year term. The Republican Party had just won the white vote while losing everybody else. To find out why, the RNC tapped a white woman, a Hispanic woman, a black man, a Jewish guy, and one white male from the South—a veritable Captain Planet cast.
ReplyDeleteTheir 100-page report was an impressive work of hair-shirting. “The Republican party needs to stop talking to itself,” they wrote. “The perception that the GOP does not care about people is doing great harm to the Party.” They made no mention of abortion and no mention of marriage. “Among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond,” they wrote, “must be to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” At the press conference where they rolled this out, Puerto Rican team member Zori Fonalledas gave the reform pitch en Espanol before repeating it in English.
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