Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’

[Joanne98]

Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’ « - Blogs from CNN.com

Whereas I'm inclined to think that the GOP will become irrelevant if they do not move away from neo-conservatism and social conservatism, the faithful think they'll be irrelevant if they do not stick to those ideas.


In an interview with the California newspaper The Visalia Times-Delta, Huckabee said the GOP would only further decline in influence should it alienate social conservatives — largely considered the most energetic and loyal faction of the party.
"Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs," he said in reference to the American political party that largely disbanded in the mid 1800s.

"They'll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party," he said in the interview published Thursday.

Huckabee's comments come the same day former Vice President Dick Cheney warned his party's leaders not to moderate their views as they launch an effort to regain control in the nation's Capitol.


"The idea that we ought to moderate basically means we ought to fundamentally change our philosophy," Cheney also said. "I for one am not prepared to do that, and I think most of us aren’t," he told conservative talk-radio host Scott Hennen.

The GOP philosophy has failed and people rejected it in the last election, so I do not see how sticking to the same ideas is going to revive the GOP. It's going to become irrelevant if it does not come up with some new ideas. Just having a black RNC chairman and using Twitter ain't gonna cut it.

http://sapereaude.typepad.com/philosopundit/2009/05/huckabee-warns-gop-could-become-irrelevant---blogs-from-cnncom.html

[Deja Q]

1. Why warn? Promising is so much more effective...

I think it's been irrelevant for some time and I don't see it changing until the jingo is replaced by honest discussion.

In short, they won't change.

[Stevenmarc]

2. Note to Huckabee, you already passed "could"

[spanone]

3. too late

[malaise]

13. Ding ding n/t

[meow2u3]

4. The GOP is already irrelephant

:rofl:

[walldude]

5. He's right on time as usual...

:rofl:

[Earth Bound Misfit]

16. "The GOP is already irrelephant"

:rofl: I LOVE IT! Can I steal use that?

[undeterred]

6. "a party of gray-haired old men sitting around a country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy"

That's putting it very politely.

[phantom power]

7. Actually, the GOP still wields an incredible amount of influence...

for a party backed by 20% of the country.

[msongs]

12. you mean like controlling congress from a minority position lol nt

[phantom power]

14. Yes, and dominating the discourse in the MSM...

:rofl:

If the Dems had half of their chutzpa, there might actually be such a thing as a permanent Dem majority.

[dgibby]

8. That Huckabee-what a jokester! He needs his own show on

Comedy Central.

[Happyhippychick]

9. This from Pastor Irrelevance? Pot meet kettle.

[Mz Pip]

10. What parts of social conservatism

and neo-conservatism does Huckabee wish the GOP would abandon?

what's left? Tax cuts?

[Happyhippychick]

11. How long before he calls Limbaugh to apologize for speaking out of turn?

[Earth Bound Misfit]

15. That Huckster, sharp as a bowling ball he.

Nothing gets by him.