I’ve wondered if Norquist and his crowd think if they keep going left they will peel off a good percentage of the liberal white vote as they become disenchanted with Obama. They MUST know they’ll never get the socialist hispanic vote.
My favorite Norquist quote:“I started out as a right-winger, and when I retire I want to be a squishy middle-of-the-roader,” he jokes, chortling at the thought.
I don't know. I can't see any real libs voting Republican under any circumstance.
I've said that the swing vote which put Obama in office was the white guilt vote. By that I mean those white voters who are independents, or moderates, or whatever we call those who still might move back-and-forth from one presidential election to the next - those voters voted for Obama out of white guilt. It just felt so good to vote for a black guy.
I think those voters might come to their senses and vote Republican next time. And I still think many conservatives have stayed home the past two elections.
But I think Norquist and his ilk have just bought into a line of thinking that they have to pander and compete with the Dims for all sorts of group votes, and that that strategy will mostly lose more and more conservative voters.