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How Eric Cantor Is Trying to Soften the Republican Party
Watching this weirdly cute exchange Monday at The Preparatory School of the District of Columbia, I realize just how hard it’s going to be for the GOP to rebrand itself after the 2012 election debacle. Republican leaders are a bit like Mekhi’s plastic dinosaurs: Even when they’re cute, they can be scary.
Cantor visited the school for more than an hour to gather information for a speech Tuesday that his aides are billing as an important shift of tone for the Republican Party. The speech will attempt to cast the House GOP’s traditionally conservative policy agenda in terms that appeal to parents, explaining why school vouchers, tax breaks, repealing the health care law, and other Republican standards would “make life work better.”
"It's having a conversation on different terms," Cantor said in a telephone interview later today. While he remains committed to reducing the debt and trimming government, Cantor said he wants to frame GOP policies in ways that explain the impact on people's lives.
The conservative Heritage Foundation estimates that about $1,100 of federal money goes toward the education of the average U.S. public school student. Cantor would like that money to be made available to parents unhappy with poor performing public schools.Partisan Democrats love to call Republicans bullies, belittling GOP policies as cruel and heartless. Left unanswered, demagoguery sticks — which is the point of Cantor’s charm offensive.
Cantor visited the school for more than an hour to gather information for a speech Tuesday that his aides are billing as an important shift of tone for the Republican Party. The speech will attempt to cast the House GOP’s traditionally conservative policy agenda in terms that appeal to parents, explaining why school vouchers, tax breaks, repealing the health care law, and other Republican standards would “make life work better.”
"It's having a conversation on different terms," Cantor said in a telephone interview later today. While he remains committed to reducing the debt and trimming government, Cantor said he wants to frame GOP policies in ways that explain the impact on people's lives.
The conservative Heritage Foundation estimates that about $1,100 of federal money goes toward the education of the average U.S. public school student. Cantor would like that money to be made available to parents unhappy with poor performing public schools.Partisan Democrats love to call Republicans bullies, belittling GOP policies as cruel and heartless. Left unanswered, demagoguery sticks — which is the point of Cantor’s charm offensive.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/how-eric-cantor-is-trying-to-soften-the-republican-party-20130204
There's a picture that goes along with this article showing Cantor holding an African American child. All the photo ops in the world won't change the fact that a majority of the public are rejecting GOP policies. They just don't get it.
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we need a good and honest second party to keep us Democrats in check 
Or just make me king
