Time for a GOP Northern Strategy

[memphis]

It's gotten to the point now where the evangelicals are sufficiently GOP that there's no longer any reason to appeal to them. You think they are going vote Dem?  And I think the Republicans get that. Except of course in strongly gerrymander districts where the real race is the primary, but that's a different ball of wax. Trouble is, having walked back the Jesus schtick, they don't stand for anything anymore beyond opposition to Obama and taxes. They need to be for something. And they also need a makeover in style. Grumpy Old Men is so 1990s.

[memphis]

The GOP needs to be the party of the Sunbelt, not the Rust Belt.  They can do this by starting to appeal to the well-educated, wealthier areas of the South like NoVa, the Research Triangle, the I-35 Corridor, and Silicon Valley.  How do we do this?  Drop all this Tea Party/Libertarian and crap and go back to want the vast majority of middle class, White Americans want but don't know it:  authoritarian neoconservatism with a technocratic twist.    

#SouthernStrategy2.0

NoVa and the Research Triangle are heavily dependent on federal dollars. Even if they can rebrand and get people to forget their Elmer Gantry schtick, how does the party of cutting government appeal to these folks? By I-35, I guess you mean Texas? The GOP is already doing fine down there. As for Silicon Valley, it's a highly creative and innovative sort of place. Lots of diversity too. Meanwhile, Republicans are so damn stuffy and crusty, and CA is such a lost cause for the GOP anyway. What they really need is Pennsylvania. Those all white suburbs in Bucks County looks like as good a place as any to try to work some magic.