He is doing a damn good job, seeing all the division among even conservatives here on FR.
“I’m a real conservative because x and you y!”
“Never vote for x he/she is a RINO”
“etc.”
The Republican Party itself (GOPE) is splitting the party into warring factions and doesn’t need Obama’s help to achieve it
That’s because we argue about issues that don’t really matter. As long as the federal government is enormous and all-powerful it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about abortion because Planned Parenthood will get their 1/2 billion and spend millions electing whoever they want. Go down the list and every issue that we disagree on is moot once the Federal government is shrunk.
I agree - I often wonder what a strategy on FR might be to split conservatives. One method would be to plant two (or more) groups of conservatives into a forum and then start a fake disagreement between the planted groups and then build followings until you have RINOs and extremists going back and forth.
Bingo - disenfranchise followers and by reducing the conservative footprint at the polls - more dems get elected.
Some of the harsh words on FR leads me to believe that this has been in full swing for some time - how many times have you heard that people are staying home and not voting.
Even after the Bush tax cuts became permanent there was very little (or no) cheering on FR.
Wrong. The GOP-E has done an excellent job of splitting itself off from its Conservative base. The Republican wounds are wholly self-inflicted, and Obama and Plouffe don't have to do anything.
Romney ran on a pro-choice platform, in the party that is supposed to be pro-life, the rinos have supported candidates running against GOP nominees.
He and his liberal branch of the GOP are destroying the party.