For Losing Republicans, Moderation Not The Way Forward

[Geee]

Investors Business Daily:

They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority.

The only part of this that is even partially true regards Hispanics. They should be a natural Republican constituency: striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative (on abortion, for example).

The principal reason they go Democratic is the issue of illegal immigrants. In securing the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney made the strategic error of (unnecessarily) going to the right of Rick Perry. Romney could never successfully tack back.

For the party in general, however, the problem is hardly structural. It requires but a single policy change: Border fence plus amnesty. Yes, amnesty. Use the word. Shock and awe — full legal normalization (just short of citizenship) in return for full border enforcement.

[Rokke]

If more Republicans had voted for Romney, the Hispanic vote would have been irrelevant. Can we consider that issue first?

[pollyannaish]

But both Allen West and Mia Love lost. why? They are rock stars.

[pollyannaish]

I should say it is not our values that are the problem. It is relevance.