GOP Morphing?

For John, BLUF:  Part of life is educating others about political subjects of which they are ignorant.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From The Atlantic we have, yesterday, an article by Journalism Professor Peter Beinartnov, looking to the longer term implications of the 2014 results.  "Why the GOP Blowout Is So Scary for Democrats."  The sub-headline does a better job of explicating the idea—"It's not just that the GOP won key races across the board.  It's that the party showed a new hunger to cross over to moderates and win."

Some join parties in order to win control of the levers of government and some join in order to push their own views of how governing should be done.  The best combine a desire to win elections with a sense of what government should be doing, which they can and have articulated to the voters.

Out there for Republicans there is the Republican Party, in its local, state and national versions.  There are the various Tea Parties, such as the Greater Lowell Tea Party.  Then there is the Republican Assembly, lead at the national level by Ms Sharron Angle, there is the Massachusetts Republican Assembly (MARA) and there is the local 3rd [Congressional] District of MARA, headed by local Conservative Ms Georjann McGaha.  Once upon a time there was a Massachusetts Conservative Party, and it may be rebounding.

This article says that within the Republican Party a number of people have coalesced around the idea that the Republican Party must drop certain issues and pull together.  The last paragraph of the article sums up the history presented and an idea of where things are possibly going.

The GOP brand remains terrible, and the party still faces huge challenges in winning the younger, Hispanic and female voters it needs to reclaim the White House.  But if Republicans remain in a political hole, tonight’s midterms suggest that they have at least stopped digging.  That’s 2014’s most important lesson for the presidential race that’s about to begin.

Maybe.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff