It's makeover time peoples! Who's up? Why, it's the GOP (just seeing that makes me laugh). Time for a timeline!
May 1st 2009 - Michael Steele once again became a big thorn in his party's side by telling moderates that they were welcome to his party, as long as they quiet their own view and fall in with the far-right party line. Image change? What image change?
May 2nd 2009 - Three major-league republicans (Eric Cantor, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney) met at a Virginia restaurant for the first of a series of town hall meetings. Sound familiar?!
May 4th 2009 - Obama requested that the GOP start becoming more open to his policies. His hope for a bipartisan age have been slowly fading as only 3 republicans have voted for his major policies and one of those, Sen. Arlen Specter, ended up changing party allegiances entirely!
May 5th 2009 - Jon Ensign Nevada Sen. discusses the slipping fortunes of the GOP specifically the "litmus tests" that candidates wanting to represent the party had to go through. He suggested that this was making elections in the North East particularly uwinnable, as candidate simply did not appeal to voters.
I have to say the headline "GOP gives Palin the cold shoulder" did make me lol - although hypocrites much?! so what do YOU think of the image change? Will it work out for the GOP? Should Bristol Palin-style teen pregnancy and 'opposite' marriage be eliminated from their policies? or is there something else that makes them so damn unappealing?
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