[neverdem]

This reality led Jack Kemp to say “They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Mitt Romney may have had the better plans for America, but before voters were willing to consider them, they first had to think that he cared about them, which too many did not.

Remember Texas Gov. Ann Richards deriding GWB saying he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? The GOP has a major image problem. Too many voters think it's the party of big business.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Remember Texas Gov. Ann Richards deriding GWB saying he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? The GOP has a major image problem. Too many voters think it’s the party of big business.

Not really, Dubya won with one slogan conservatives disliked because of what it falsely implied — COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM.

Whatever the senselessness of it, that phrase worked to elect Dubya twice.

[lentulusgracchus]

Too many voters think it's the party of big business.

Well, it is, until conservatives learn to be more intelligently insurrectionary.

Main Street Republicans have always gotten the shaft from the Boys Downtown, going back to the days of the Mugwumps in the 1880's. The only exceptions occurred when they took the nomination in 1964 behind the illuminated and dedicated backers of Barry Goldwater (who included Clifton White and Ronald Reagan) and in 1980 (Reagan and his wealthy California backers again).