Excerpts from The Virginian-Pilot Editorial:
As the GOP continues to lose seats in the Senate - and approaches a numerical minority incapable of offering a check or balance on Democratic excesses - a resurgent Republican Party is more critical than it has been in decades. But there are signs that some GOP leaders recognize the depth of the dilemma.
Scene One was the Pie-tanza pizza parlor in Arlington, where House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., hosted a town hall forum featuring former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The three party leaders studiously avoided attacks on President Barack Obama. Instead, they explained their own ideas on topics ranging from education to health care and fielded questions from an audience of about 100 people. The trio engaged in a few moments of introspection, acknowledging that their party lost the presidential election because Obama presented voters with a more relevant and forward-looking agenda.
Cantor, Bush and Romney were sincere in their desire to develop a more positive Republican message. That's encouraging, and should be encouraged by anyone hopeful for a real and lasting GOP resurgence.
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"... Obama presented voters with a more relevant and forward-looking agenda"? What?! Hope? Change? No specifics. Nothing but vapid platitudes presented in a carefully packaged box. Obama offered what a semi-comatose, self-absorbed and fearful public wanted to hear. Republicans lost because they wasted energy chewing the limbs off the more gifted candidates and ending up with, well, you know who. We don't need to repackage anything. We need to restore the Constitution, free markets, the rule of law, and apply a huge dose of political roundup to the growing nanny-state.
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