Politics

Memo to GOP: You Can’t Put Lipstick on an Elephant

Hate to Break It to Ya

Republicans’ trumpeted makeover plan has only been out a few days, and it’s already crumbling.

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The Republican Nation Committee’s postmortem on 2012 is hardly a guarantee that the party will come back to electoral life in 2014, or even 2016.

And to find out why, look no further than Paul Ryan.

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