Posted on 11/07/2012 5:02:29 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
My main concern right now is a Republican Party that can win elections and majorities again, and do that for the conservative movement. Now is the hour of our discontent, when all of the factions inside the GOP turn on each other to blame each other for the loss.
Here’s what I think went wrong:
•NOT social issues voters. This will be a predictable line from elite/moderates/liberals. The fact of the matter is social issues voters are still around 30% of the electorate and the GOP can’t get to 50% without them. Deal with it.
•NOT “extremism”. And may I remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Wait, the guy who said that lost in a landslide. Urm. Uh… Well. The point I want to make: there’s extremism and there’s extremism. Mitt Romney was down the line mainstream Republican in this campaign and he got to a hair of 50%. Americans just don’t think the Republican Party platform is wildly extreme the way they thought that about Goldwater or McGovern.
•By the same token, NOT “moderation”. A lot of people on the right of the GOP and in the grassroots will try to say that Romney lost because he was too moderate. Nope. Again, he was a down the line mainstream Republican...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
forget about what i’m describing- look at the numbers...look at the numbers now compared to 2010 compared to 2008....
I agree with pretty much your entire post. Scary times await us. Too bad 60 million voters think that yesterday was all just another fun election to participate and protect their rights to get free stuff.
However, if we can’t change the hearts and minds of teenagers and young adults, then we are lost.
How do we change their minds? They don’t even think there is anything wrong with it.
My first response would be to get them out of the polluted public school system, but it sounds like you have already done that. Perhaps educating them one at a time. With pictures of the early development stages of babies. There was a commercial on the radio with the sound of a heartbeat of a baby 28 days after conception. How can you hear that and not realize it is alive? If one still doesn't care at that point, I don't know. That is why it needs to be illegal; to protect the baby from the people who don't care that they are taking a human life, even when they know.
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