bobby jindal in the news is it's an advice for republicans are in his his
advice to statement is pretty sweeping he believes the republicans and pretty
much change everything if they go to survive with elections the future a
specifically said this
we do not need to change what we believe as conservatives are principles are
timeless
but we do need to reorient our focus to the place were conservatism france in
the real world beyond the washington beltway
cities conservatism is completely wrapped up in solving the hideous mess
that is the federal budget
the burgeoning deficits the mammoth out of the federal debt the shortfall in our
entitlement programs
um... then so i bring this up not because i believe the republicans are
likely to listen to bobby jindal
other product try to push in the national office at some point but i
don't think they agree with them a lot of things seems a bit too reasonable at
the two moderate um... but i would like to your opinion on what the republicans
need to do in the next couple of years
to bring back voters who are proofs ticket at this point
well one thing i think they can do that and i think i think they can do is too
maybe go back to the republican party that they used to be prior to you know
ninety days like eisenhower republicans that teddy roosevelt republicans the
ones that actually were caring about you know conservation you know conservatism
is the base for a conservation and they used to care about these things they
used to actually care about working for the country and trying to and make
progress in moving forward on things and and and unfortunately we have we have
lost that part of the republican party would be nice to have
that counterpoint uh... an actual same counterpoint stevens is the way
its wings and it would be nice
yeah angry it seems like a lot of their policies are actually much more
regressive right there trying to do it with a lot of the party sometime in the
last
in fifty years and years cell
i think you should look at their like fundamental beliefs and what he seemed
finally safety that not having a factor
you know eighteen and building a bridge to the nineteenth century you know
that's fine with the going in and let you know that that that tends to
but restrict women's reproductive rights and they've already gained you know to
the end of the work that they're doing to just consolidate power rather than
actually traded train moves forward on really intractable difficult issues that
we have
i do disagree with at least one of the points about digital made he says that
that one of the reasons that republicans are popular as all the talking about is
the deficits and
it seems like all they're doing is is government bookkeeping as we said
uh... but i don't think that that's true i think that that's a cop-out said
that's why they're unpopular i think that talking about the generator and
things like that
is a much better reason a much more understandable reason that
demographic groups are no longer exists in the party
um... that's why i think that while he tends to be pretty reasonable if he
actually believes this uh... i don't even know if he is ready to make the
changes that the party needs to to compete nationally in the future
bank that they actually care about the deficit they talk about it they they
don't care about it because you know they were the ones that were behind
voting for president bush
to but isn't it to unfunded wars and interested in their pocket right they
don't really care about it it's just a convenient talking point for now and
this is a republican comes back into the presidency they'll completely digit
again in milan visit allot we can run up the tab again exactly technology work
yet
um... but by i will say though i while the we talk about the demographic
changes have been going on in the country and certainly not certain groups
listeners for instance are becoming a larger part of the voting population
that's definitely good news for liberals good news for democrats
uh... but i don't think that they have been a lot of people in the past to
believe that the tide of history was turning in there be a permanent majority
and there were times when people thought when bush i've gotten office so that
might be the beginning of some sort of durable republican majority i think that
the the party system is pretty flexible
i think that the sorts of the issues that are emphasized the positions that
they take and
unchanged from deputy get decade maybe a little harder with the tea party and how
extreme they are
uh... but i think that one of the reasons that when you look back after
sixteen years ago
it seems impossible that the democrats were voting the way they were the
republicans were
but why is it that lincoln freed the slaves for instance doesn't make sense
that's because the parties to shift
and i think that it's gonna be difficult i don't know what the republicans are
smarter for have the will
to shift in the way that they have to
uh... but i wouldn't count him out just yet
i don't count them out
but i think what they have to deal with is the uh... influence of corporate
money because right now that i don't think they'll ever get back to being the
kind of republicans that we remember and you know from history especially
mid-century republicans to actually worked for progress in the country until
they're able to separate themselves from the corporations that have taken of her
and basically use them as tools