{"id":10340,"date":"2009-05-04T05:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2009-05-04T05:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:19:45","slug":"republicans-strategy-for-2010-be-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"Republicans&#8217; strategy for 2010; be Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/may\/03\/gop-listens-in-drive-to-thrive\/\">Washington Times<\/a> this morning, three bubbleheads, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Eric Cantor met in Alexandria, VA yesterday to announce that Democrats have a better strategy than Republicans, so we should be more like them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don&#8217;t like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that,&#8221; Mr. Bush said.<\/p>\n<p>The former president&#8217;s brother, often mentioned as a potential candidate in 2012, said President Obama&#8217;s message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it&#8217;s great, but it doesn&#8217;t draw people toward your cause,&#8221; Mr. Bush said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the conservative side, it&#8217;s time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because, you know, things do ebb and flow.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, until this morning, I liked Jeb Bush, I liked Mitt Romney, but they claim they&#8217;ve been listening to Americans and this is what they&#8217;ve come up with. What Americans were they listening to? ACORN-Americans? Washington Post trolls?<\/p>\n<p>After the &#8220;Tea Parties&#8221; this is what the leading Republicans come up with? Like I&#8217;ve been saying since 2005 &#8211; I don&#8217;t give my money to the Democrats because I disagree with their policies, so why should I give my money to Republicans who are supporting those same policies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times this morning, three bubbleheads, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Eric Cantor &hellip; <a title=\"Republicans&#8217; strategy for 2010; be Democrats\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10340\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans&#8217; strategy for 2010; be Democrats<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}