Posted on 03/10/2013 8:27:35 AM PDT by UKrepublican
They are in a long slow decline, and that is precisely because of the reasons you outline. They go to the pundits and the pollsters and they do their sums and they decide to pander to the socialist agenda rather than stand up to it. They dont realise that the country is nowhere near as leftist as the media fondly believes. The intelligensia and the elitists pontificated and warn of all kinds of dire consequences of conservative policies, but almost all of it is smoke and mirrors. All these pressure groups and think tanks and lobby groups claim to represent people, but they dont really. They represent a radical section of whatever grouping they call themselves.
There is an enormous political prize to be gained by conservatives (or indeed anyone else) who can bypass those who claim to be representing folk, and talk directly to the people themselves.
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