After the 2012 National election there was all this inference from the Republican Part that, after losing badly to Obama, they were going to have to change. Studies were published saying young people were not attracted to the party. The party platform was out of touch with the rest of the country. They needed to become more inclusive in regards to Blacks, Latinos, Gays, Lesbians, women's reproductive rights; the list just goes on and on. For a few months after the election they did make a few furtive steps in those directions, but now, eight months after their defeat, those steps have all but stopped. This was to be expected. To continue would have meant to voluntarily choose to change, and for that to happen the GOP would need to admit that they were wrong... on a lot of things. They have spent too many years pointing their fingers at everybody else any and every time something has gone wrong while they held the presidency. They are lost in the forest of no return.
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Denial has led them down the path to their autumn years and it is far too late for them to turn over a new leaf. As a result, the only thing they can do is attack. While I've never read it there, I'm sure one of the unspoken planks in their platform is "if you can't offer an alternative solution, burn down the other guy's house and then blame him for it." What a sad place to be in if the only way to get votes is by constantly deriding and disseminating falsehood and allegation. This doesn't say much for their ethics, but I'm fairly sure they shit those away a long time ago. They are the party of aging white men.
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