Two years later, the Same Old Party
"Instead of driving around in circles on an ideological cul-de-sac, we need a Party whose brand of conservatism invites and inspires new people to visit us."
After losing the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee completed a four-month period of self-reflection after losing its second-straight presidential election. The result of that process became popularly known as the GOP 'Autopsy Report' - an analysis of all of the Republican Party's ailments, and prescriptions for how to cure them.
Party operatives wrote about the need to reach out to communities of color, be more inclusive of gay Americans, and attract more women to the party.
But two years later, all the Republican Party has gotten is another year older.
Orange County GOP Chairman Lew Oliver called Puerto Rico a "basket case" and said, "If you like a semi-socialist government where the highest aspiration is a nice secure government job, Puerto Rico is heaven on earth"
Republican candidate for governor of Oregon, Lorraine Mae Rafferty, said that same-sex marriage "is a sin -- just the same as murder."
Florida Governor Rick Scott
Alabama US Representative Mo Brooks expressed concern over allowing DREAMers to serve in the military, saying they had "questionable loyalties"
California US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said that "people who are here illegally should go home" and that immigration reform means that "we will be importing tens of millions of poor people."
Cari Christman, Executive Director of RedState Women, suggested that women are too "busy" to fight for equal pay.
A Texas Republican fundraising consultant with ties to gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick, candidate for lieutenant governor, registered a fundraising PAC with the FEC entitled "Boats 'N Hoes PAC."
Texas Gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott cited the work of a "white nationalist" who believes that "women and minorities are intellectually inferior to white men" in his pre-kindergarten education plan
Texas Governor Rick Perry said equal pay was "nonsense" and not a "substantive issue."