Erick Erickson Says Republicans Should Come Up With New Ideas Like Repealing Obamacare

In what is possibly the most delusional item I've read since the election Tuesday, Erick Erickson writes what I'm sure he believes to be an Awesome Call to Action to move the Republican Party forward in the 21st century.

Moving forward, the conservative movement from within the GOP needs to advance new ideas, not just dust off and repackage old ideas. The principles remain the same. The principles are fixed. But the ideas that advance those principles must fit into the twenty-first century.

And what might those new ideas be?

The GOP should start with education reform. They should tackle tax reform. They should work the break up big banks by forcing big banks to capitalize further. They should not shy away from tackling social security and medicare reform — ideas that did not hurt them with senior citizens and will ultimately help them with younger voters. They should still fight to repeal Obamacare and explain to the American people why it is sucking the life out of the economy.

Education, break up the big banks that Bush bailed out, reform Social Security and Medicare, repeal Obamacare. Huh, new ideas? These are exactly what Mitt Romney and the GOP ran on and lost big time.

Those aren't new ideas. They are the same old tiresome Republican ideas of the last 30+ years, dusted off and repackaged just like Erickson says shouldn't be done. Anyone remember Mittens' Five Point Plan that he mentioned every other word?  

• Education reform 
• get rid of government regulations burdening the economy 
• reform Social Security and do away with Medicare 
• Repeal Obamacare 
• reform the tax code and cut taxes

Those are the exact same "new ideas" Erickson wants for 2014.  They haven't learned a thing.  And they won't.  Because they truly believe they didn't lose this election, at least not as a rejection of their platform.  As Erickson says, its' "cyclical."   It's not as if Americans embraced "liberalism" and rejected "conservatism."  It's simply a "cycle of distress" brought about by minorities now electing presidents.  Nothing in Republican ideology was rejected in this presidential election.  Yeah, that sort of thinking is really what's going to move you forward.

Such thought from the right wing is no surprise.  Of course their ideas weren't rejected. The polls were skewed, the media was in bed with Democrats, Black Panthers were election judges, and Obama gave minorities free iPhones for votes.  All is normal, the GOP is still the party of 21st century Americanism.