Listen: You're Fired

The Republicans rolled out a 'listening tour', and inadvertantly demonstrated what complete dunces they are by fielding Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush as the headliners.
Nice- put Jeb right next to Mitt so that Jeb's inability to take courageous action when folks have names and faces, like Elian Gonzales and Terry Schaivo, makes Mitt's presidential hair look downright principled.

You want a vote? You need to provide something different from that other party. Let's start by giving these unprincipled jerks early retirement.

See, the real hang-up here, the problem for the Republicans is that they want to be able to do the same things the other party does when they get into power, but in order to get into power they have to promise to give up, well, power. This is why they look so bad right now- they got power and used it rather than giving it back to the people. So now they have to figure out that they need to get back on the smaller government message AND they have to get people to trust them.

What makes for trust? Extremism. Middle of the road won't sell, because middle of the road is pretty close to socialist and the Democrats do that better, thank you very much. I suppose I should qualify extremism- here's the thing, it will sound like extremism to the morning news crowd, but it's not actually extremism. It's a guy willing to argue from principle that all drugs should be legal. It's Ron Paul, or perhaps even a few younger people saying similar things- though you'll have to clear out the former student government munchkins and actually seek us out.

It's having the guts to be crazy, because at this point, any dissent from zombie socialism is labeled as crazy in the media, and only those either crazy or principled enough to seem crazy to the press have the street cred to pull your sorry party out of the fire.