Voters to GOP: Like Your Ideas, Don’t Like Your Party

NRO ^ | 3-18-13 | john fund

[TurboZamboni]

A new poll for the Hill newspaper finds that “more voters trust the Democratic Party than the Republican Party on budgetary issues . . . even though a strong majority actually prefer Republican fiscal policies.”

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken last week by Pulse Opinion Research. It asked respondents to choose between two different budget approaches without their being identified with a particular party. A total of 55 percent picked a plan similar to the one offered by House budget chairman Paul Ryan: Trimming federal spending by $5 trillion, not raising taxes, and reaching a balanced budget at the end of a decade. Only 28 percent of those surveyed went for a plan similar to that presented by Senate budget chairman Patty Murray last week, which would raise taxes by $1 trillion, add $100 billion in infrastructure spending, and reduce the deficit but not wipe it out.

Even Democrats demonstrated that they prefer what are normally considered GOP budget ideas. Only 44 percent of Democrats polled said deficits should be primarily reduced mostly through raising taxes, versus 40 percent who felt it should be done largely by trimming spending.

[rrrod]

The GOPe needs to go..NOW!

[manc]

never met one who said they voted Dem because of Ryans social issues , except one liberal-tarian who is more in tune with the radcial left anyway.

I have many many people who vote Dem but agree with the GOP on social issues and never had a clue about where the Dem party stands on those same issues.

More Dems agree that the mlitary should not get any weaker.
pushing feces dies not give you marriage,
illegals should not get welfare
All drugs should not be legal

Infact even many liberals would not go with all that either I’ve found.

The sooner the party sops the infiltrators using our party, primary, conventions to spout their radical lefty social agendas then the sooner we can start to get this country back on track.

[manc]

I’ve met Dems who have some big hearts but not with their money though.
They prefer to use the Govt to distribute the money.

What gets me is how the left state the GOP is for the rich and yet Hollywood for the most part.
The north east and CA .
bilionaires for the most part

ALL support the Dem party.

It’s the media who push their radical agenda, they also love to say conservatives think the GOP is outdated and need to move forward on social issues and yet it;s never a conservative who stated it.
It’s the likes of Paul , elitist estbalishment and others who pretend to be conservatives and put an R at the end of their name but tell us that we have to change to be liberals on social issues.

Hell that even happens on here too, think is that they are beomcing more and more transparent and easier to see through now.

[itsahoot]

It sounds like your friend is a “useful idiot” who believes whatever he is told to believe.

Not useful anymore died about 5 years ago. Fact is all my close friends are dead, I think we are on a list or something.

[trebb]

Republicans try to be logical grown ups, while the dems play to the emotions and own the media propaganda machine. The pubs are hung up on stodgy white guys and are intent on running a nice, honorable campaign while the country is divided and misgovernment into chaos. Recipe for national decline. Doesn’t have to be this way.

Yep - the "moral high ground" means that anyone willing to fight dirty has the edge. We are killing ourselves when we allow the basest and vilest of the enemy to convince us we need to "play nicer". We're even more stupid than Charlie Brown taking another shot at kicking the football. Einstein described us perfectly with the "insanity...do same thing...expect different result..." deal.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Conservatives are like the British in the American Revolution who preferred to fight out in the open. Liberals fight like the American country fighters, who fought behind cover, ambushed and bushwhacked. Conservatives prefer to be honorable victims, and then complain about the unfair playing field while their country dies a slow death.

[trebb]

Conservatives are like the British in the American Revolution who preferred to fight out in the open. Liberals fight like the American country fighters, who fought behind cover, ambushed and bushwhacked. Conservatives prefer to be honorable victims, and then complain about the unfair playing field while their country dies a slow death.

I hear you - I guess when we tell everyone how we lost, we can claim we lost "honorably". Some seem to overlook that if you are fighting evil, you have to be able to present even more force than evil does if you are to destroy it. Our Party is becoming "too principled" to actually engage in an actual conflict and win - once our "sensibilities" take a hit, we resort to vociferous rants and cease any counter-hostilities. Instead of taking the street fight to them, we claim to be above such shenanigans and cross our arms, tap out toes, and wait for them to become just as "civilized". The fact that "PCism" has taken such a strong root in the Nation backs this up - we have allowed ourselves to become emasculated and seem to buy more into the deal than those who put the gears in motion.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Exactly.