Republican National Committee To GOP: Be More Libertarian - David Bier, Competitive Enterprise Institiute:
March 18, 2013 - "If there is one message underlying all the recommendations from the recently released Republican National Committee strategy guide, it is that the Grand Old Party should heed the advice of libertarians: Focus on free-market economics, become more socially inclusive, and work to reform, rather than immediately abolish, the welfare state.
"'We need to remain America’s conservative alternative to big-government, redistribution-to-extremes liberalism, while building a route into our Party that a non-traditional Republican will want to travel,' declares the report prepared by a team of GOP strategists. 'We are the party of private-sector economic growth because that is the best way to create jobs and opportunity.'
"But the party clearly lacks a compelling vision for voters. In the strategists’ meetings with voters, the party was repeatedly called 'narrow minded' and 'out of touch.' Freedom in both social and economic spheres, the report details, is the only solution."
Read more: http://www.openmarket.org/2013/03/18/republican-national-committee-to-gop-be-more-libertarian/
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March 18, 2013 - "If there is one message underlying all the recommendations from the recently released Republican National Committee strategy guide, it is that the Grand Old Party should heed the advice of libertarians: Focus on free-market economics, become more socially inclusive, and work to reform, rather than immediately abolish, the welfare state.
"'We need to remain America’s conservative alternative to big-government, redistribution-to-extremes liberalism, while building a route into our Party that a non-traditional Republican will want to travel,' declares the report prepared by a team of GOP strategists. 'We are the party of private-sector economic growth because that is the best way to create jobs and opportunity.'
"But the party clearly lacks a compelling vision for voters. In the strategists’ meetings with voters, the party was repeatedly called 'narrow minded' and 'out of touch.' Freedom in both social and economic spheres, the report details, is the only solution."
Read more: http://www.openmarket.org/2013/03/18/republican-national-committee-to-gop-be-more-libertarian/
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