Josh Barro nails it.
You can't wash the Republican party clean with a little shampoo. It needs a good, hard scrub.
The root cause of the problem is that the party's funders don't share a cause with its voting bloc.
My guess - the funders will desert the gop and try to use their money to change the direction of the democratic party. hopefully the dems will turn down their money. it has a broader donor base and should maintain that approach.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-29/in-republican-civil-war-both-sides-are-hopeless.html
"The Republican Party's key electoral problem doesn't come from social conservatives or nativists. It comes from the economic policy demands of the party's wealthy donors. Murphy allows that Republicans "have lost much of our once solid connection to the middle class on kitchen-table economic issues." But his prescription won't do anything to fix that problem.
What are the "kitchen-table" economic concerns of the middle class? They're high unemployment, slow income growth, underwater mortgages, and the rising cost of health care and higher education. Democrats have an agenda that is responsive to these concerns. Republicans don't -- and they don't because the party's donor class specifically doesn't want one.
Have you spoken with a wealthy Republican donor in the last few years? By and large, they are outraged about Obamacare, easy money and stimulus spending -- that is, at policies aimed at easing middle class families' economic situations. They are often delusionally convinced that the country faces imminent economic collapse. What they believe will prevent that collapse is tight money, spending cuts and continued tax cuts for the rich. And so long as Republicans pursue those goals, they will be the party of anti-middle class economic policy."
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