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The GOP is toast, i'm a Republican and i totally disagree that the party doesn't need to do anything different. If the GOP wants to win they have to find a minority, who is squeeky clean, has no money and whos grew up without a dime. Then that candidate would have to completely go against the idea that you work for everything you get and champion stuff for free. It would be prudent as well for all GOP people to shut up about thier theories on rape also.

As a left leaning centrist (which the far right reads as "traitor to God and country") the biggest problem I have is that the republicans paint themselves into a corner on both fiscal and and issues. "The debt and deficit are the problem!" they scream from on high. Then why are revenues off the table when it comes to dealing with the problem? Really? $10 of spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases somehow violates all that is holy with the primary candidates? "We are in moral decline!" they cry. Then some of their standard bearers making idiotic statements about rape victims.

100 million voters didn't vote in the election brawl allegedly for the heart and soul of America. Romney lost by 3 million, even though Obama got 7 million less votes than in 2008. Compared to 2008, the GOP fared far, far better with 40 more House seats and 4 more Senate seats in their corner. Still, the economic message needs to be clear, and the economy unfolding may help define this message for 2016 because it's impossible to run these deficits for much longer. It all boils down to nominating the "right" candidate, not an old retread from a past primary season. There is an enormous pool of disengaged voters waiting to be....well, engaged. President Obama struck that chord in 2008, it can be done again.

I agree with the writer. The Republicans who one were the ones who offered a clear choice. The Republicans who lost, with a few exceptions, were the moderates--the RINOs whose stands and policies were often indistinguishable, other than the "R" under affiliation, as opposed to those with the "D" affiliation. This includes (especially includes) Romney, who began the campaign trying to paint himself as a clear alternative to Obama but who ended it as nothing more than Obama Lite. Americans may be many things but they are not, for the most part, stupid--if offered a choice between the real deal and a pale imitation, they'll go for the real deal every time.

---It all boils down to nominating the "right" candidate, not an old retread from a past primary season. There is an enormous pool of disengaged voters waiting to be....well, engaged. President Obama struck that chord in 2008, it can be done again.---- Way off the mark goferfanz, GOP lost the female vote by a wide margin thanks to the rigid social views (single largest voting block). Lost the immigrant vote by a huge margin due to rigid platform on immigration (that block is growing). The GOP even lost the Cuban vote and that has always been a reliable GOP block in the past. The core block of GOP voters is shrinking fast (white males). There has never been a President reelected with the economy this bad and you cant just chalk it up to Romney being a bad candidate, the GOP took in the shorts in the senate races as well. That pool of disengaged voters tends to vote Democrat not Republican if they show at the poles.. Dem turnout in this election dipped 4.2 percent GOP 1.2 Dem registered voters dropped 2.3 percent and the GOP registered voters did not change.

The republicans don't have to change to win? Einstein once said something like, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome"

Way off the mark, TI....White males arent really shrinking fast, otherwise this election wouldnt have been 62-59 million. Obama really DID get 7 million less votes, which is historically unprecedented for a President being reelected. Obama's whole 2012 negative campaigning strategy was to alienate voters and keep them at home = it worked! Voter turnout was waaaay down. Actually, FDR WAS reelected with a worse economy, so you most have overlooked that tidbit. It is also a fact the GOP has far more House and Senate seats now than in 2008(is it... 45?). You cant have your own set of facts, try as you might...........

This article just tickled my funny bone. I'm not smart enough to help out the GOP.

The GOP lost because they do not reflect the changing face of the Country. They have a 1950's mind set and are too stubborn to change. They have reduced themselves to whiners and malcontents, blaming everyone for their loss but themselves. They refuse to listen to anyone's advice and it appears do not really understand why they lost. They need group therapy to get over this loss and move forward. Which they probably could afford with Obama Care! It isn't rocket science and people across the country have told the GOP what they need to do, but they just can't help themselves. Gov. Jindal of Louisiana, announced republicans pols need to stop saying stupid things and the next day said the GOP "tolerates" women! I some times think they are beyond help! They have to develop a genuine LIKING of women and minorities, lip service just won't work!

"Obama really DID get 7 million less votes, which is historically unprecedented for a President being reelected. ".............Amazing how his impressive win can be made out to be a loss according to you! The fact is that 16 million fewer people voted, BUT he won 3 million more than his opponent as well as 126 more electoral votes. More youth, hispanics and women voted this year than in 2008. Righties were wrong that the youth would stay home or that no president would be reelected with a near 8% UE rate. They were wrong about the landslide of Romney. They were wrong about the polls. Obama won handily and will march ahead with the mandate of the American people. The GOP only has white men, seniors, and evangelicals left under its shrinking tent; Obama and the Dems have virtually every other demographic.