3/15/13, "Jeb Bush's center-right vision gets muted CPAC response," Politico, Emily Schultheis
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a center-right vision for the future of the Republican Party at CPAC Friday night, urging the party to be more inclusive and asserting his belief in the future of America’s economy.
“Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal,” he said. “They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.”...
“Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates because those voters feel unloved, unwanted and unwelcome in our party,” he said....
The crowd's response to Bush's speech was fairly muted and lacked the energy of earlier CPAC sessions. He received a standing ovation at the end but otherwise got very little applause and cheering."...
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Ed. question: Jeb Bush informs the world that the Republican Party decided to "simply write off entire segments of our society." Wow. What are the names of some Republicans who decided to do this and have they offered to resign from active roles in the Party? Millions of conservatives who leaned GOP stayed home in 2012. The GOP presidential candidate said he'd rather lose than appeal to them. And he did.
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Mitt Romney publicly stated he'd rather lose than go all out to rally the GOP conservative base. Which is fine, he's free to do as he pleases. This is just noted for people like Jeb Bush who say the GOP should have "broad appeal." From Romney's description, it does sound like those conservatives are hideous:
"Mitt Romney vowed that he would not “light his hair on fire” just to rally the conservative base, even if it means not winning the GOP nomination."
2/28/12, "Romney, Acknowledging Mistakes, Says He Won’t Say ‘Outrageous’ Things to Win," ABC News, The Note
"Mitt Romney vowed that he would not “light his hair on fire” just to rally the conservative base, even if it means not winning the GOP nomination.
“You know it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments,” said Romney.
“We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusatory and attacking President Obama that you’re going to jump up in the polls. You know, I’m not willing to light my hair on fire
- to try and get support. I am who I am.”"
Rush Limbaugh: Conservatives have played by the rules yet are laughed at everywhere they look. "Nobody fights back for 'em."
1/23/12, "The GOP Establishment in Abject Panic: They Don't Understand Their Own Base," Rush Limbaugh, transcript
"I've been doing this show for 23 years, and one of my themes from the beginning, from 1988, has been that the American conservative middle class are the ones playing by the rules. They are the ones that obey the law to the best of their ability. They raise their kids. They try to shield their kids from cultural rot and depravity. They try to keep them off drugs. They try to get them into college. They follow as best they can all the rules and they're laughed at and made fun of and they are impugned everywhere they look. They go to the movies, they're mocked and made fun of. They turn on the radio, listen to music, they're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of. They turn on television, watch an average television show, they are laughed at, mocked and made fun of. They open the newspaper, same thing. They've had it. They've been dealing with this for over 20 years, and nobody's fought back for 'em. Not one person ever has fought back for 'em."...
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1/21/12, "Newt Gingrich Wins. What It Means." Erick Erickson, RedState.com
"Newt Gingrich’s rise has a lot to do with Newt Gingrich’s debate performance. But it has just as much to do with a party base in revolt against its thought and party leaders in Washington, DC. The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.
Adding insult to injury, the party and thought leaders now try to foist on the base a milquetoast moderate from Massachusetts."...
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3/15/13, "Why Did Conservatives Stay Home in '12?" Rush Limbaugh
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P.S. Politico is not a fan of Republicans in general but if they had to take one it would be an establishment member like Jeb Bush. In case anyone thinks the above article unfairly downplayed him.
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