Fox News analyst Dick Morris calls us at the National Republican Trust the 'most important group now in the Republican Party, our version of Moveon.org but more effective.'
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I've been through the '64 collapse when the Republican Party was going to disappear and the '74 Watergate collapse when the Republican Party was going to disappear and the '92 defeat of President Bush. And in each case, I watched us within a short time focus on new ideas and new solutions and within a very short time come back as a stronger and healthier party.
This book is not about what's wrong with Mitt Romney or anybody else ... I try to tell it in the narrative of the campaign. This book says if we're going to try to hit the reset button on the Republican Party, move forward, bring us back together and really become a majority party again...we'd better change things.
It's time you made it official and jump on the liberal bandwagon for good ... Bow down to your 'messiah,' who you helped to crown. And prepare for the 'left-wing change' you have brought upon us. I join 57 million loyal American patriots in asking you to please announce your departure from conservatism and Republican Party.
As tough as today is for the Republican Party, I hope it serves as a wake-up call and a reminder for us to return to our core values ... We will all be winners tonight if the Republican Party returns to the basic values that have served us so well here in Texas and across the country. We know what those values are: limited government, lower taxes, personal liberty, a strong national defense, and unlimited opportunity for all. We need to get back to those basics.
These results lead us to the following conclusions: Republican hostility towards Latinos in general and Latino immigrants in particular is driving this group into the hands of Democrats, (and) if Republicans expect to emerge from the political wilderness, they will have separated themselves from the anti-immigrant extremists that have hijacked most of the party