MOVE PAST REAGAN: GOP CANDIDATES NEED ANSWERS TO TODAY’S PROBLEMS TO STOP HILLARY

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Presidential campaigns are supposed to be about America, or at least what voters want—not Donald Trump’s and Ben Carson’s clumsy statements and political correctness.

 

Hillary Clinton, even with her integrity impugned, beats GOP hopefuls in head to head polls because she addresses issues voters care about: jobs, fairness, education, health care, and equality.

 

Republicans instead offer repackaged Reaganism—for example, Jeb Bush’s tax package and incredible promise to accomplish 4 percent growth.

 

Conservatism—and by derivation Republicans—must change with the times and recognize solutions that worked for the Gipper don’t resonate today.

 

Democrats have an advantage. European-style democratic socialism offers plausible-sounding, even if tragically flawed, solutions.

 

Clinton has a fresh list of free stuff and wrong-headed mandates for private business, even though two generations of handouts and affirmative action have failed to raise the African-American living standards to anywhere near parity with other Americans.

 

Palliatives nearly always fail—subsidized student loans, grants and government coerced minority and low-income enrollment have driven tuition costs out of sight. Medicare prescription drug coverage for seniors has accelerated the rise in drug prices.

 

For conservatives to win, they must offer understandable proposals that get to the root causes of job loss, student debt, unaffordable health care, and remaining discrimination—or they simply can’t win.

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There are good ideas on the conservative side. It's the Republican establishment that won't listen and seems stuck in the past.

[Valin]

Hillary is doing a bang up job of stopping herself.