Sounds like it:

I just got off the phone with a very plugged-in Republican strategist who told me that Republican reaction to President Obama’s speech, which the party will roll out in the next few days, will mark the beginning of a new GOP approach to opposing the president’s initiatives. (No, Bobby Jindal’s ineffective response was not part of that new approach — everyone seems a little embarrassed about that.) The Republican leadership in the House has concluded that in the stimulus debate, the GOP succeeded in dominating a number of news cycles but failed to score any points on actual policy. That, the leaders believe, has got to change.

via www.dcexaminer.com >> Beltway Confidential – “A Major Doctrinal Shift for Republicans”.

So, what do they have in mind? Going Democratic-lite? God I hope not. 🙄

The Communist Democratic Party’s mantra has always been Tax and Spend, or more specifically Tax the Rich and Spend money that the Government does not even have. There’s no way to come up with a “Hip Hop” way of denouncing this. I just do not understand why the hell the Republican Party, feels the need to become more like liberals and their progressive media message. The Republican Party has always been the party of Traditionalism and and American values. They should not change this, at all.

Yes, I know that George W. Bush strayed and strayed hard from Party and Conservative principles, but that does not make for a good excuse to try and “Modernize” or shall I say, “Progressive-ize” the Republican Party’s image. Conservatives have been the stark contrast from the Liberal Democrats, they should not change that at all.  Jidal’s speech might not have been “Beltway sounding” enough and perhaps a bit off, but let’s not use that an excuse to become more like the Democrats, it could every well end up being the death-knell of the Republican Party.

I am not sure what the Republican leadership has in mind, I just hope they engage their brains long enough and think about what they want to become. The last thing that the Republican Party needs to do, is try and appeal to the Liberal Media or to Liberals in General. John McCain and Sarah tried that, and look what it got them? Sounded defeated at the polls. The G.O.P. just does not need to make that foolish of a mistake.

Others: Hot Air, Riehl World View and Little Green Footballs

Then we have the matter of white achievement. The vast majority of what makes the lives of all races better today – modern science and medicine; our luxuries; Western art, literature, legal institutions; etc. – is the handiwork of whites. Oh, this is simply a matter of circumstance, of opportunity, of a twist of fate, you say? Perhaps. Again, this is not the time to discuss the ways and whys. Suffice it to say for now that if President Obama (PBUH) can frame matters in terms of race at his inauguration (and in his books and everywhere else, it seems), I can in an article. And if whites can be ridiculed for their transgressions, they can be recognized for their triumphs.

Yet, despite all this and more, caucaphobia is still not only accepted but often encouraged. And the hypocrisy is stark. The left admonishes against making even valid generalizations or entertaining intellectual discussions about group differences. And indulging stereotyping – that specter of egalitarian nightmares – can fast earn one pariah status in addition to a place on the unemployment line. Why, even the positive variety is off limits. We cannot say blacks are better athletes, even though the sports arena may bear witness to this; we cannot say Asians are more intelligent, even though they have the highest average I.Q. of any major racial group; we cannot say Latinos are good dancers (not sure about that one). The idea is that such beliefs can lead to stigmatization or resentment or, or . . . whatever the theory du jour may be.

But when the matter is whites, even baseless negative stereotypes aren’t thought cause for alarm. A Reverend Lowery can imply that whites are uniquely flawed and immoral, they can be portrayed as the bane of man, as “the cancer of human history,” and it’s ho-hum.

Yet, are we to believe that such demonization magically becomes harmless when whites are the targets? What does history teach about the plight of consistently scapegoated and dehumanized groups? It’s that they almost invariably end up suffering persecution. And given that current demographic trends indicate whites will becomes a minority in America during the lifetimes of many reading this, and given that even majorities sometimes are tyrannized – as Sunnis’ domination of Shiites under Saddam Hussein and the Spartans’ enslavement of the Helots proved – it’s foolish to dismiss the peril posed by mainstreaming caucaphobia. (In fact, whites already suffer the sting of persecution; I documented some cases here and here).

Yet, that increasingly-maligned dead white male Ben Franklin knew whereof he spoke when he said, “You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.” Prejudice is a function of emotion, not logic, and emotion is like darkness, in that it can be blinding. A person who sees only color – and through colored glasses – will have a powerful immunity to facts. Thus, I only expect caucaphobia to intensify.

So what can we do? Well, prayer is always good, so I’ll conclude with one of my own right now. Lord, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will cease the attack, brown will no longer frown, white will be all right – and rhymes will fit the times.

Here are Blog reactions to “The Speech”, as it is now being called now and the Republican Party’s Response.

Ann Althouse live Blogged it, Steven Green over at PJ’s Media was drunk-blogging the speech.

Glenn Reynolds directed traffic, as always and offers a bit of humor.

Funniest line evah: (so far….)

7:05PM Hottest first lady ever? Barring Millard Fillmore in drag, I’d have to say yes ….

I must confess, I had to go look it up. I had zero clue.  (Who the <bleep!> is Millard Fillmore?!?!?!)

Gateway Pundit said Bobby Jindal’s response was fantastic. The gang over at HotAir and Copious Dissent are unimpressed.

Reason Magazine weighs in, and gives expected views.

Restore the Republic offers a very stern response.

Memeorandum, Who refuses to scan me, has a roundup. He is now. Finally! 😀

I’m sure the speech should help the markets. I hope. So do many others.

My Take on the Speech:

Well executed, filled with “Red Meat” for the Liberal crowd. Topics avoided were details on the withdrawal from Iraq. Tax the rich and spend our way out of the recession. Basically par for the course with the Liberal Democrats. Nothing reached out and touched me, no race baiting, which I thought was good. Toward the end, it began to sound like a campaign speech. But other than those things, I have like nothing big to say about it.

Bottom Line: We shall see how Obama does, if he fails, he’ll be Jimmy Carter 2.0. If he succeeds, he’ll be the Black Roosevelt.

Update: I figured if I shot my mouth off long enough Gabe’s Rivera’s Memeorandum would scan me again. Hello to all those coming in from there! 😀