Drawing the Battle Lines

By: Erick Erickson July 9th, 2013

The Republican Party is not fighting for the heart and soul of the nation because the Republican Party is fighting for its own heart and soul. Made worse, many in the Republican base continue to idolize some of the men and women in the Republican Party who have caused the very problems the party now faces. It is adrift morally, intellectually, and physically with a depressed base of activists, an out of touch base of rich donors, and a leadership that has spent more time in the Virginia and DC area than the Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan.

The Republican Leaders choose to talk a good game, but have very little in the way of an offensive strategy other than to offend their base. Made worse, while spending time in Washington talking to and with the “Beltway Burkeans” as my friend Ben Domenech calls them, they’ve drifted more and more to the repackaged, failed ideas that doom all Republican candidates — the ideas that see them run as Democrats-Lite....To Read More.....