re: #240 Sol Berdinowitz

This was the thing that the GOP leadership failed to do and which cost them the election: they failed to call out the bigots and birthers, the dog-whistlers and fearmongers and tell them to put a lid on it and concentrate on a positive message.

It came and bit them in the butt gib-time and they will be years getting out of the wilderness until they shake these goons, unless it is truly to late to do so.

How do they tell a bunch of businesses to stop making money from misleading and exploiting their people? Short of the GOP calling them out on lies a dozen times a day how would they? Also notice that now the base is already mistrusting the “GOP Elites” who “Saddled them with Romney instead of a real conservative.”

I don’t think the GOP leadership has enough credibility left to call out the outrage peddlers, I think the base would just turn on them and then go back to listening to Bill-O.