The Republican Party has painted itself into a corner

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Pity the GOP candidates

Kendall P. Stanley

10:43 a.m. EDT, October 24, 2011

<snip>The Republican Party has painted itself into a corner. At one point the Republicans wanted to be the "big tent" party, inviting any and all to sit at the table as a way to move the party forward. Someone forgot to tell those at the top that opening the door to any and all opened the door to people you might not want to sit down and have dinner with.

And the trouble is, those folks expected to be heard and kowtowed to.

Now you have the anti-government crowd -- read tea partiers -- wanting to limit government while the party as a whole wants to RUN the government. You have the social issues crowd that wants to move America back 50 or 60 years to what they perceive to be a better time. You have the anti-tax and cut the budget crowd. You have the religious folks who want to make America a theocracy.

And the party is supposed to come up with a candidate for president who can incorporate all that?

[William769]

1. And their in a round room!

[madinmaryland]

2. It seems that most of the repuke party is the anti-government crowd.

They are a big tent of Anti-gov, anti-tax, social issues nuts, religious nuts, gun nuts, etc. There really isn't much left that wants to govern, other than to govern the government out of existence.

:shrug: