Rick Santorum says the Republican Party needs to appeal to middle class Americans. He says this in a book he wrote entitled “Blue Collar Conservatives.” The book, evidently, is his first step in a campaign for the presidency in 2016.
“When you make things and have a manufacturing economy, you have the opportunity to distribute wealth more equitably,” Santorum said in an interview quoted in the Allentown Morning Call.
It’s not bad analysis, but it won’t help the Republican Party. The party is divided into two main wings—establishment and Tea Party. The establishment Republicans are the big business types, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Wal-Mart heirs, the banks, and the Chamber of Commerce. That wing is looking out for the already rich. That wing doesn’t give a damn about the peons on the bottom.
The second wing is the Tea Party wing, a fanatical group of gun-toting, anti-labor, anti-immigrant, anti-Affordable Care Act, and anti-government-in-general reactionaries led by people like Sara Palin and Fox News. That wing also doesn’t give a damn about the rest of us.
Bottom line: the Republicans will lose big in 2016. As for Santorum, please just go away. You’ve had way more than your allotted 15 minutes of fame, and now you are just annoying.
The things he says has meaning. The party seems to be at a point of no return. Until they open there eyes after many election losses they will not change there ideology. But then again the Demo's have moved so far to the left that is another issue too. If only we could get back to moderate thinking we will be having this.
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