missypea

Minority Leader John A. Boehner told his caucus behind closed doors Tuesday that Americans won’t vote for Republicans until they fix their “brand” and convince voters they will fix Washington, according to members who were present.

Earlier this year, the NRCC discovered unauthorized wire transfers and belatedly learned that audits had not been conducted on its accounts for several years.

The committee ended 2006 with about $990,000 less than its balance sheet showed and ended 2007 with $740,000 less. The FBI is investigating.

Boehner cited the need to stick with presumed presidential nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain and aggressively criticize Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif.

“I think it’s clear this election is about change,” Boehner said. “If we’re going to do well in this election, if we’re going to win back our majority, we have to prove to people that we are in fact the agents of change.”



CQ Politics | GOP Looks for Ways to Regroup After Losses


Can the republican politicians, currently in office, prove that they are the agents of change when they do this:

House Republicans will hold a rally with President Bush on Wednesday morning, with all 199 members invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to show solidarity with the president, according to GOP sources.

GOP leaders warn of election disaster - John Bresnahan - Politico.com

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missypea

Maybe I should have made this a poll. Does anyone believe that this republican party can convince Americans that they are the agents of change this country needs?

EDIT* Poll added

aegyptos

Sure. They just need to find the right person to deliver the message.

Conservatives have an easier time than the left in convincing voters of anything because the country is center-right by nature and preference. Also change from the right tends to be incremental, evolutionary and easily accomodated by people compared with change from the left which tend to be radical and sudden, disruptive of established order and not easily accomodated.

John1234

heh...

Why would anyone view Republicans as agents of change?
It is Republicans that we want to change from.

tecoyah

They would need to do more than simply convince people they stand for change...lets face it, they have massively changed America over the last six years. They would need to fix the changes they have already made, and convince people the new changes will actually be GOOD for America, rather than damaging.

In the current incarnation of the GOP....that would be extremely difficult to do, and would take decades.

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aegyptos

Not true for most Americans. Most American are not as partisan as the members of this board.

It's high taxes, out of control spending, big government, open borders and our internationalist foreign policy that people want change from. Republicans should have an easier time convincing people that they can bring the needed change since almost all of these problems are identified with the democrat party going back to FDR.

tecoyah

So....8 yrs was simply too short a time to move even an inch on these issues?

I mean, gimme a break. Between Warfare, the beautiful new homeland security dept, a worthless border fence, and a foreign policy that consists of bombing and dead Americans...I think the GOP has created quite enough "Change".

aegyptos

Bush is not a very good republican. He has spent the last eight years advancing what are historically democrat policies.

independent_thinker2002

And what is your excuse for the Republican congress that had 6 years without a single veto from the President?

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BWG

Now that is funny........... BUT TRUE



Remember when some were criticizing Obama about changes? What changes they asked.

Hell even Republicans want changes (for pandering, political purposes of course, gotta keep that power)

Minority Leader John A. Boehner told his caucus behind closed doors Tuesday that Americans won’t vote for Republicans until they fix their “brand” (change) and convince voters they will fix Washington, according to members who were present.

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Writing in the magazine Human Events, [Newt]Gingrich called for a “complete overhaul” of the NRCC and said GOP lawmakers needed a new message by Memorial Day.

“It’s time to face a stark choice,” Gingrich wrote. “Without change, we could face a catastrophic election this fall.”

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“I think it’s clear this election is about change,” Boehner said. “If we’re going to do well in this election, if we’re going to win back our majority, we have to prove to people that we are in fact the agents of change.”

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