http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/20/failed-gop-candidate-rob-mckenna-tells-gop-how-not-to-fail-so-hard-in-the-future Comments On: Failed GOP Candidate Rob McKenna Tells GOP How Not to Fail so Hard in the Future by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mister G]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:48 -0800 The Stranger
All they have to do is embrace cannabis legalization. The stoner demographic is the largest one in America. If they can capture that one, they can pretty much run the country.

They won't, of course. Because, as John Stuart Mill once put it, 'Conservatives aren't necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.'
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:37:12 -0800 The Stranger Mckenna, Is this part of the legacy you want to leave?
You still have not done anything about it.

http://youtu.be/Qdl-yVqv69c


Posted by Gingers strength]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:00:24 -0800 The Stranger Mckenna, Is this part of the legacy you want to leave?
You still have not done anything about it.

http://youtu.be/Qdl-yVqv69c


Posted by Gingers strength]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:51:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Teslick]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:05:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by DJSauvage]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:32:59 -0800 The Stranger
I would say we need to control our brand. You can't have a moderate republican in the northwest saying "hey, can we all just get along" and another republican in the southeast saying how "all gays are damned to hell".

So, really a set of guidelines as to who can use the GOP or Republican label when running and what they can say, support and so on.

As far as how to win elections, its pretty clear. You have to get your voters to vote by floating a lot of initiatives that cut to issues that will bring in core constituencies. Even if that initiative is essentially meaningless as far as providing real additional rights over what already exists...as in the case of the dispensary owner in Seattle now being prosecuted by the Feds.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:33:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:16:40 -0800 The Stranger
But they can't. And they can't do it because what they sold their current constituents so successfully is an image that hates women, minorities and young people.
Posted by Charlie Mas]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:11:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:42:46 -0800 The Stranger
When a company rebrands, it doesn't exclude overhauling its business line. So maybe when the GOP rebrands, they might overhaul their platform and the policies they champion. That's not out of the question; if you get away from purely liberal blogs, there's ample evidence that the establishment of the GOP wants to jettison the teabaggers and other fringe haters now that they're dragging the party down instead of buoying it up. Given how BOTH parties have gone as far right as either can go, it makes sense that they'll both have to go back to the left. (Especially the GOP, who will not be able to survive any further steps to the right.)
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:36:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:27:57 -0800 The Stranger