GOP, where is it headed?

I think it is time for the Republican Party to rethink and regroup. They should go back and look at their roots. The Whig party and the Democrat party were all about compromise on the issue of Slavery. One group within the Whig party was the abolitionist and they seen as a fringe group. They stuck to their message and tried to force the Whig Party to change and when it didn't they joined with several minor parties and became the Republican Party. Maybe it is time to join with some of the other minor parties and deliver a message of true conservatism. A message where everyone has the same opportunity to acheive and be successful. A message of a hand up not a hand out, one of personal responsibility and not government over regulation and control.

I agree with you, until they make a real effort to represent ALL of the constituent voters and their interests it will be very difficult for the GOP to retake the White House. The American People are not quick to forget that it was a second generation Republican President that lit the fuse that burned the country down financially in the first place, and who started this interminable war on what he admitted was poor and incorrect intelligence. With so many ways to gather information, check the veracity of politicians statements, and spread news today there is no way that the American People are going for a paper cut-out President like Romney anyway. We are through the entire election and no one, not even Romney himself can state his platform and where he stands on the major issues. He has to many puppeteers pulling his strings and using his mouth to press their own various agendas.

I don't think it's anything deep or detailed. I think Obama's just a one-of-a-kind candidate whose words and general message resonates with more people. He's more charismatic. He comes across more passionate. He's the "right" candidate for the mainstream -- a multiracial, multicultural individual who believes rich people are holding everyone down and that America's just another everyday country of the world and not a driving force of anything. From the folks camping out in tents begging for wealth to be taken from the 1% and the guy making the foam design at the coffee house, to the highbrow editor of a struggling left-wing newspaper and the college professor refusing to let right-wing views air in his medium, they believe the same general message: America = greed = bad; Obama + more government + fewer Republicans = good. Some can argue about more Americans wanting more entitlements, or the GOP having to specifically do something that benefits people based on race, but I don't think it's anything near that complicated. Obama's still just a popular guy. He's popular with the vast majority of America's celebrity culture, America's media, and as far as I can tell, the majority of international media outlets from Antilla to Australia feel the same way about Obama as MSNBC does. Besides, if the GOP started to placate voting blocs they way Obama and other liberals do, they wouldn't be the GOP. Well, maybe Generic Old Placateers has a ring to it. But the point is that Obama just makes people feel as if everything's going to be okay -- like the waters are going to part and the sun is going to forever shine and everything bad in the world will evaporate. He has that sort of power. I didn't see that coming in 2010. I didn't realize Obama hadn't lost his touch until 2011. I figured he'd be Vanilla Ice. He's holding on longer.