http://www.alternet.org/aging-white-radicals-real-reason-republicans-are-completely-stuck
The Republican Party’s total failure to make even cosmetic changes to its image and policy agenda last year has at this point become the kind of cliché-cum-running joke that often attaches itself to accepted truisms in American politics. Like chucking about Bill Clinton’s inability to contain himself in the company of women, or noting that Dick Cheney actually ran the show during George W. Bush’s first term, observing that Republicans have failed to moderate or reinvent themselves after losing badly in 2012 is the kind of thing even sympathetic political wise men can say to signal that they get it. That in what was a tough year for President Obama, Republicans screwed up too.
But the observation of these symptoms is less crucial than the diagnosis. Why are Republicans so stuck?
When it became clear about a year ago that Republican leaders would have a much harder time advancing immigration reform than they realized — that GOP activists and conservatives were livid about the idea that Republicans were going to help illegal immigrants gain citizenship — it started to look like the party had an insoluble problem on its hands. Watching Republicans attempt to broaden their appeal to growing, traditionally Democratic constituencies has been like watching someone try to cover a bedroom floor with a poorly cut carpet, fastening it into one corner but pulling it out of the others in the process.
They can’t connect with traditionally Democratic constituencies without breaking connection with their reliable supporters. They can tug in every possible direction, but at some point they need to acknowledge that the carpet’s too small.
one thing that contributes to their up coming demise is to many factions republicans, conservatives, tea party, tea part republicans, tea party conservatives and several factions more of tea party. republicans rode in with them 2010 but itr's been clear who calls the harmful plays, all wanting to be the chef while they have civil unrest among those factions too many arguing chef's allows the pot to boil over, nobody's watching what's going on. remember Beohner looked like he and Pres. were on the same page he gets up shakes Pres.'s hand smiles through a tearful eye
walks out hour or so later the tea party told him "hell no you can't" shoving his own words back down his throat. tea party shuts down gov't republicans did not than they blamed Pres. and Harry Reid after days of TV and written media lead with republicans shut down the gov't. Nov. 4th make them the fools they think we are.
