Olympia Snowe: Republicans Need To 'Rethink Their Approach As A Political Party'

Olympia Snowe: Republicans Need To 'Rethink Their Approach As A Political Party'

Olympia Snowe: Republicans Need To 'Rethink Their Approach As A Political Party'

Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the Republican Party needs to rethink its approach and agreed with former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) that the party should be "closed for repairs."
"I certainly do agree with the former majority leader, Bob Dole, with whom I worked when I first entered the Senate and who was a consensus builder and understood what was essential and important for the Republican Party and what was important for America, and that unfortunately has been lost today on Capitol Hill," Snowe said on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown."
"The Republican Party is undergoing some, you know, significant and serious changes, and they are going to have to rethink their approach as a political party and how they are going to regroup and become a governing majority party that appeals to a broader group of Americans than they do today," she said.
Snowe left office in January 2013 after deciding not to run for reelection. One of the now rare moderate Republicans, she supported abortion rights and favored some gay rights, though she only came out for gay marriage after leaving office.
On "Fox News Sunday" this past weekend, Dole criticized congressional gridlock. When asked whether he would fit in with the current Republican Party, he said, "I doubt it. Reagan wouldn't have made it. Certainly Nixon wouldn't have made it, because he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it."

THE OPINION OF THE ONTELLIGENTSIA

Wouldn't it be nice if the GOP was a POLITICAL party rather than a bunch of social revisionists?  Rather than focusing on the issues important to all, they focus on the selective issues of a few and as such have determined that social issues are political.  Since when is being pro-or anti-war (Code Pink) political?  Is femaile health care and choice (PPH) really political?  And what about equal rights and freedom of movement for all Americans (DOMA) a political issue?  One would think that American's health would not be political, particularly because the concept was introduced by a former president and almost passed by two others, one a Republican and one a Democrat, but, oh no, opposition and repeal rather than modification and correction are the one issue the Repubicans are now spending more time on than any other.  Yes.  I say let's bring back -- or create a POLITICAL conservative party in the USA

COMMENT:

Do we have any doubt believing the intelligentsia? However, it is up to you all, but be sure of the fact that Republican is no more famous Political Party but a Israel’s ass kisser an order implementer of AIPAC  and sex cleaner of CNN the propaganda media of Israel.