The Republican Party: The Republican Governors Association Meeting

The Republican Party Dept: In conversations at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Las Vegas, a half dozen party leaders predicted the Republican Party will lose again if it keeps running the same playbook based on platitudes in place of detailed policies. Instead, leaders asserted, the party needs to learn lessons from its loss, respect voters' savvy and put forward an agenda that appeals beyond the white, male voters who are its base, according to CBC. "We need to have a brutal, brutally honest assessment of everything we did," Barbour said. "We need to take everything apart ... and determine what we did that worked and what we did that didn't work." Top Republicans meeting for the first time since U.S. Election Day say the party failed to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal. Little more than a week after Romney came up short in his presidential bid, the party elders were looking at his errors and peering ahead to 2016's race. Some of the contenders eying a White House run of their own were on hand and quietly considering their chances. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie scheduled a private meeting on the sidelines with Haley Barbour, the former Mississippi governor who is widely seen as one of the Republican Party's sharpest political operatives. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.