Republican Rep: 'The GOP Coalition Constitutes A Shrinking Portion Of The Electo

[blacken700]

TOM KLUDT – NOVEMBER 18, 2013, 6:58 AM EST

The Republican Party is at serious risk of running out of Republican voters, according to a senior GOP lawmaker.

“Republicans need to understand that their political problems are neither tactical nor transitory,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said, as quoted by the Washington Post. “They are structural and demographic. The hard truth is the GOP coalition constitutes a shrinking portion of the electorate. To change that daunting reality, Republicans must appeal to groups that are currently outside their ranks or risk becoming a permanent minority.”

A former pollster, Cole is known to speak candidly about the political problems facing the GOP. He broke with his party late last year when he said that Republicans should accept President Barack Obama's offer to extend middle income tax cuts in the near-term. Cole also said that Republicans would be damaged politically by the recent government shutdown.

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[JOHN MATRIX]

 

[RRKore]

Makes sense to me. 

Uptight white people aren't fertile enough to make up for the right's tendency to antagonize every type of minority under the sun.

[whork]

Thats BS.

The US is full of racist, uneducated, woman hating, trailor park trash.

Too bad they are so fat they cant get out of the couch

[Straw Man]

This is why they are working on voter suppression

If fact in the governor race in Virginia the teabaggers had no shame is saying that a low voter turnout would help their candidate and a higher turnout would doom him

Repubs need to have less of the country participating in democracy in order for them to have a chance

Those are the sad facts (for them) and they seem to have no shame in admitting it

[JOHN MATRIX]

This may be news to you racist demtwinks, but not all republican voters are white

[Straw Man]

This may be news to you racist demtwinks, but not all republican voters are white

no one on this thread mentioned race and it wasn't mentioned in the article

I assume you're just projecting your own prejudice

[JOHN MATRIX]

Oh I guess by 'shrinking proportion of the electorate' they were not in any way referring to the shrinking proportion of whites 

[Archer77]

This is why they are working on voter suppression

If fact in the governor race in Virginia the teabaggers had no shame is saying that a low voter turnout would help their candidate and a higher turnout would doom him

Repubs need to have less of the country participating in democracy in order for them to have a chance

Those are the sad facts (for them) and they seem to have no shame in admitting it

Voter suppression is a real problem along with gerrymandering but democrats need to admit the push for amnesty has a lot to do with acquiring votes. 

[Straw Man]

Voter suppression is a real problem along with gerrymandering but democrats need to admit the push for amnesty has a lot to do with acquiring votes. 

really, then why are some prominent Repubs pushing for it too

Do they just want to help the Dems get more votes?

[dario73]

To the libtards, only whites are republican or vote republicans.

The blacks and hispanics who are registered republicans are called uncle toms and sellouts by the libtards. They treat conservative women like thrash and constantly insult them. Libtards have the belief that the republican party is only composed of  old angry, white men.

Libtards are the most ignorant and intolerant people in this nation.

[Straw Man]

To the libtards, only whites are republican or vote republicans.

The blacks and hispanics who are registered republicans are called uncle toms and sellouts by the libtards. They treat conservative women like thrash and constantly insult them. Libtards have the belief that the republican party is only composed of  old angry, white men.

Libtards are the most ignorant and intolerant people in this nation.

typical nonsense that right wingers like to tell  each other

[Coach is Back!]

blacken, Kore, Ozmo, Strawman, why did you guys vote to destroy this country even after the past history and the warnings?

[dario73]

typical nonsense that right wingers like to tell  each other

Really?


You can see it everywhere in how the liberal media speaks about, writes about and describe conservatives.

Those were really nice word from Bashir to Palin. Oh, it's okay because he apologized.

Keep yourself stupid.

[Archer77]

really, then why are some prominent Repubs pushing for it too

Do they just want to help the Dems get more votes?

Their angle is cheap labor for their campaign contributors. It's the philosophical idea that the nation state is an outdated concept and that commerce and the flow of wealth is what unites people.  For them, there are no countries, only individuals so borders and cultures are irrelevant.  What benefits business is always good and the importation of cheap labor is good for business no matter how it effects the wages of native workers. 

[Straw Man]

Their angle is cheap labor for their campaign contributors. It's the philosophical idea that the nation state is an outdated concept and that commerce and the flow of wealth is what unites people.  For them, there are no countries, only individuals so borders and cultures are irrelevant.  What benefits business is always good and the importation of cheap labor is good for business no matter how it effects the wages of native workers. 

so cheap labor for their political  patrons even though they "know" they are also helping the Dems get more votes

Is anyone on the record admitting to either of these things?

[RRKore]

blacken, Kore, Ozmo, Strawman, why did you guys vote to destroy this country even after the past history and the warnings?

If you mean why did we vote for Obama, it's because the alternatives were worse.

Repubs have had shitty candidates the past 2 elections.  

(Vote for Romney?  After the economic crash?  Are you serious?  You mofo's are lucky no REAL socialists were on the ballot.

[JOHN MATRIX]

blacken, Kore, Ozmo, Strawman, why did you guys vote to destroy this country even after the past history and the warnings?

They know nothing of history and only care about supporting feel-good legislation and political correctness.

[Archer77]

so cheap labor for their political  patrons even though they "know" they are also helping the Dems get more votes

Is anyone on the record admitting to either of these things?

It's right out of the neoconservative think tanks.  Grover Norquist is a big advocate of this kind of policy.  Where you see a difference of opinion on immigration is between paleoconservative nativists and neoconservatives.

[Straw Man]

It's right out of the neoconservative think tanks.  Grover Norquist is a big advocate of this kind of policy.  Where you see a difference of opinion on immigration is between paleoconservative nativists and neoconservatives.

so you have some links or something?

I'm not saying it's not true but I'm just wondering if anyone has gone on the record with it

same goes for you belief that Dems only want amnesty for the votes.   Don't their wealthy patrons want cheap labor too?

[JOHN MATRIX]

so cheap labor for their political  patrons even though they "know" they are also helping the Dems get more votes

Is anyone on the record admitting to either of these things?

My question to you libs is, why are you so enthusiastic about amnesty? Why are you so enthusiastic about the decline of white america? Do you think it will improve our nation somehow? Every single nation in history that has opened its gates to massive 3 rd world immigration has declined and broken apart as its native culture was displaced.

Why do you cheer this on??

[Archer77]

so you have some links or something?

I'm not saying it's not true but I'm just wondering if anyone has gone on the record with it

same goes for you belief that Dems only want amnesty for the votes.   Don't their wealthy patrons want cheap labor too?

Yes democratic donors want cheap labor as well but they don't have to influence the democrats to support immigration because the democrats are already for it.  Democrats promote immigration for what they believe are humanitarian reasons.  For the wealthy patrons it doesn't matter what the democrats reasons are as long as it's ultimately promoting their interests.

What other reason could the democrats have for allowing 11-30 million unskilled low wage workers into the country to compete with native workers? 

I'll dig you up some links. Open borders and lax immigration are the backbone of most libertarian economic policy.  What matters most to them is property rights of the individual, not national borders. 

[headhuntersix]

To JM's last point...have u libs traveled extensively in Latin America...I mean really rolled through the ghetto's. In my current job..I do and have alot. Latin America is a shithole. The places and people that aren't...they're not coming here. We're not getting a wave of neo natal brain surgeons. We're getting criminals, the uneducated, the poor, etc etc etc. U want to add 11 million people to the welfare rolls? Really....

[Soul Crusher]

To JM's last point...have u libs traveled extensively in Latin America...I mean really rolled through the ghetto's. In my current job..I do and have alot. Latin America is a shithole. The places and people that aren't...they're not coming here. We're not getting a wave of neo natal brain surgeons. We're getting criminals, the uneducated, the poor, etc etc etc. U want to add 11 million people to the welfare rolls? Really....

Yes - because these liberal communists want to import more poverty

[headhuntersix]

Do people now how bad things are in these places....