I mean we have Zell Miller (D turned puke from Georgia), Newt from Georgia, Saxby from Georgia, Reince from Mars......
Let's see what's wrong with Reince's assessment:
(1) GOP is engaged in a war on women whether it is limiting or de-funding their access to affordable healthcare including family planning, equal pay, right to serve the military in combat roles, re-defining rape so that often a rape would not be considered a rape, introducing so-called personhood laws/amendments which would effectively deny not only the right to an abortion but even other forms of birth control or taking an aerobics class that results in a miscarriage could be considered murder.
(2) GOP is engaged in a war on immigrants passing laws that require all persons, including citizens to carry "papers" to prove citizenship, denying or conditioning medical and other basic social services on proof of citizenship and generally characterizing hispanic immigrants as lawless and undesirable
(3) GOP is engaged in a war against the LGBT community by floating the idea of a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, refusing to pass ENDA to protect LGBT persons from discrimination in the most basic aspects of life from employment to housing, only reluctantly going along with a repeal of DADT, pursuing a denial of the rights of LGBT persons not only marry but even to adopt children or have access to a partner in illness or death. They characterize gay households as not being "in the manner intended by God" and many continue to describe homosexuality as invoking the wrath of God. Further by using taxpayers dollars to defend DOMA they are directly attacking those persons legally married in states that allow same-sex marriage by denying the recognition of their marriages in other states.
(4) GOP is engaged in a war on the environment by fighting virtually any attempts to strengthen existing environmental laws, pass a carbon tax and allow the EPA to regulate greenhouse emissions, weaken protections for endangered species and ignore climate change.
(5) GOP is engaged in a war on the poor and middle class through their regressive tax and deficit-reduction policies, by supporting the concept of the "un-fair" tax which is extremely regressive, by attempting to shut down and deny the rights of workers both public and private sector to collectively bargain, by strong-arming the administration before agreeing to extend unemployment benefits and reduce Medicaid funding.
(6) GOP is engaged in a war on seniors by attacking and wanting to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits and raising the age of eligibility for these immensely popular and successful programs
(7) GOP is engaged in a war on the economy by protecting the wealthy, fighting reforms of the financial sector, fighting stimulus that would add jobs and grow the economy, rubber-stamping every law that benefits the wealthy and business, by continuing corporate welfare while asking the poor and middle class to ante-up. The GOP denies the need to invest in our infrastructure from bridges and roads to ports, the electric grid, etc.
(8) GOP is engaged in a war on the people of this country by fighting reasonable gun regulations and other provisions that would save lives and reduce gun violence
(9) GOP is engaged in a war on the people by fighting health care reform. GOP wants to see people die as soon as possible because they believe in "free-market" principles that make health insurance unaffordable for many and that deny many that suffer from pre-existing conditions access to the health care system.
(10) GOP loves war and wants to see as many of our men and women be in harms way as possible through endless war. They want to continue to fund weapons programs that are either not needed or have proven to be failures while denying the extreme poverty of millions of Americans.
I could go on but you get the gist. Reince Preibus needs psychological help if he thinks the GOP is "on target" but has some minor messaging issues. They are running counter to the tide of history.
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