Has the Republican party forgot what being a Republican is? Has the neocon infiltration blurred their memory?

Question

"We're trying to look into our conscience and define ourselves, and as we define ourselves, decide how we can best communicate that to the rest of the world," said Rep. John Carter (Tex.), the Republican conference secretary and one of the effort's participants. "In other words, what are Republicans?"

What with Iraq going ****-up, the continued flounderings of the most useless president ever, and a slate of 2008 candidates you wouldn't trust to run a Wendy's, the Republican party is suffering. (All together now: awwwwwww.)

So what better pick-me-up than a brand spanking new slogan? Last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner "convened a group of allies and confidantes to work on GOP 'branding,' an exercise designed to restore an identity to a party that many voters no longer see as holding a core set of principles," according to the Washington Post.

Answer 1

perhaps. I surely do not identify with some of the policies the republican party has been supporting. Issue is that I identify with the Democratic party policies even less.
So its pretty much teh same except for that I identify with each of the parties both to a lesser degree than I used to.

Answer 2

There are a lot of Republicans and Democrats as well who have been betrayed by their government and the individual parties... If it was not fo the misinformation from the mainstream media, a lot more people would vote Green Party. As it stands now, most think that Greens are environmental terrorists and radical hippies...Most of this comes from confusing them with Greenpeace, a non-governmental agency. Wikipedia is very helpfull at defining what the Green Party stands for.

Answer 3

Well, they way they're spending combined with their opinions-turned-legislation regarding lifestyle choices, I'd definitely say they're having an identity crisis. No, no...It's more sustained than a crisis - chronic Political Identity Disorder, perhaps.

Answer 4

the problem is that the party already had an identity that worked great for decades and won huge landslide over and over again; then the neocon infiltration and temptation of pleasing liberals got to the party heads.