Lately it has seemed like comedy movies are irrelevant. Why? Because there are Republican “debates” to watch and other commentary provided by the candidates. With all the bickering, arguing and outlandish claims, who needs another source of entertainment?

With people like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz consuming all the attention from the Republicans, it is easy to see how some people can make judgments about the entire party and its platform.

Most conservatives, even though their ideals fall in line with the GOP, understand that the party’s positions on some major issues are undesirable not only to Democrats, but also to independents and moderate conservatives.

It’s likely that the GOP will continue to lose popularity with young voters and minorities if they don’t reform their views. They will lose these votes to the Democrats, giving them the majority needed to shift Washington to the left.

The first thing that the Republicans need to do is to re-asses their stance on immigration.

Deporting millions of people is not a popular idea with a majority of the American people, but the immigration system is inefficient, with coming illegally seeming like a better alternative to coming in legally and waiting for the slow, legal process.

However, people who have come here illegally should be required to pay taxes like any other citizen without any special treatment.

In addition, any illegal alien who has committed a crime, other than being in the United States illegally, should be deported.

The Republicans can also advocate legislation that reforms the immigration process and has a path, not a given, opportunity for citizenship.

Another action the Republicans should take is to allow Merrick Garland, candidate for the new Supreme Court Justice, toat least have a hearing.

Garland is not the crazy liberal that the Republicans in Congress fearbecause he is considerably moderate.

President Barack Obama likely picked Garland to highlight that Congressional Republicans will not work with Democrats on any issue.

At this point in time, the far-right policies of President Ronald Reagan are not favorable to a majority of Americans.

Republicans need to realize that if they want to get their ideals in positive perception, they need to have more moderate ideas and work on bipartisan legislation.

Honestly, Americans really lost an opportunity in Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush or pretty much any of the other candidates. Both have strong, conservative beliefs, but are not as polarizing as Trump or Cruz.