Strangely enough, I'm okay with it. This has been needed since 2008 and the past few election cycles have just been working up to it.
The political landscape has massively changed in the near two decades since 1994 compared to the five decades prior to it. The Republican Party is no longer firmly situated into the role of the neigh permanent minority party in power. This is inevitably going to create a change within the mindset and mentality of the base and those within the party infastructure.
I'm honestly unsure which way this battle goes as it continues, and I don't think it's going to end this election cycle or next, but I think ultimately it's needed within the Republican party. At this point there is a significant divide in terms of the mentality, purpose, and practice within the party that needs to be addressed in some fashion to have a unified message and to allow a "norm" to be established with some acceptable outliers as opposed to two distinct and significant camps.
It'll likely cause Republicans some issues over the next election, and it will make the 2016 presidential election season extremely interesting. I think it'll be three election cycles....so 2018...before we truly have a good view of how this battle ends up turning out.
I also welcome it and i think it will be a good move and what they need.
IMO its simple, go back to the basics.
Drop all the social issues out of the
campaign platform they are a complete waste
next focus on strong military, strong economy, strong education
and most importantly focus on being FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE
BUT
drop all the rhetoric that is counter productive
"free loaders"
"minorities"
"welfare moms"
"government teet"
etc etc etc
all those words hurt the argument more than they help it, and it makes many people offended because the facts are not everybody on some type of assistance is a freeloader, lazy or a minority etc etc
focus on the CORRUPTION, the ABUSE, focus on the poor CHECKS and BALANCES, focus on the poor REGULATIONS of the programs, NOT on who the programs provide for or who is ABUSING the system
because if that is fixed then who is abusing the system gets fixed also, it fixes itself without putting a blanket label on people that many simply dont like.
I think this is the way to go and the way to gain HONEST support and weed out the fringe or at least make them easier to identify for people that blatantly cant see them or dishonestly lump them all together.
just my two cents