The OTHER Problem

You can read a lot about the Republican Party's current status (Much of it posted on Kos, which was kind enough to link to this site -- maybe stop kvetching so much about your new visitors, ya?). There were extremely few places that voted more heavily for McCain than for Bush -- and that can't be due soley to McCain, because Palin was running too -- and campaigned hard in Appalachia.

What is there to do, people ask, and people come up with tactical decisions.

That won't matter one jot, because you are still the minority party.

The minority party ALWAYS engages in voter suppression. A movement predicated on voter engagement is asymmetric warfare to the minority party. It will not help the minority party to try and achieve parity. (can you tell I worked at the Army War College?)

So, you ask, how do the Republicans avoid perishing in obscurity, doomed by demographic change, among other things?

Show some courage, make some big changes. And don't be afraid to take on the Golden Cows. Make a splash, make sure that everyone listens to "it's not the same party anymore" -- just like the Democrats managed this year.

1. End the Corporate Welfare that goes to the Prison Industry.

2. Hell, end corporate welfare in general. Understand that people who aren't doing so hot don't like to hear about huge corporations and how well they are doing. So... make it so they don't have to!

3. End the War on Drugs

4. Do something different with foreign policy. Anti-China, Pro-Iran, something. Reinvent yourselves. I can't see anythign that the democrats are really treating as sacred here...

I guess the bottom line is that you can cast smaller government as not anti-poor, but anti-freeloading-corporations.