Posted on 07/12/2013 1:07:16 PM PDT by Mozilla
People aren’t bailing out of the Republican Party to go over to the dark side. They are leaving because thanks to the ongoing infestation of the party by liberal statists, they don’t see a fundamental difference between the GOP and the Democrats. The Lesser Evil argument that has persuaded some of us to vote for the likes of John McCain is no longer cutting it:
A new study by the Frontier Lab, a conservative market research group, found that Republican voters who leave the party do so because they are tired of being told to vote Republican as the “lesser of two evils.” The study, “Switching Behavior: Modeling disaffiliation from the Republican brand,” is published on the group’s website and applies scientific methods of qualitative research to the GOP’s most urgent problem.
Never mind the RNC’s post-Romney “autopsy,” which was prepared by the same pointy-headed, unprincipled consultants who have been steering the GOP into oblivion.
Anne Sorock, author of the Frontier Lab study, writes that the RNC autopsy failed to provide “meaningful insights about how the Republican Party’s adherents are interacting with the brand as it stands.”
She found four main reasons for the growing disaffection:
One was the rejection of the “lesser of two evils” argument — the argument that voters had to support a bad Republican because the Democratic candidate would invariably be worse. …
A second event was a loss of hope in the Republican Party — a sentiment connected to the feeling that the party could no longer deliver on its promises because leaders had abandoned their principles. …
A third reason that Republicans had decided to detach themselves from the party label was “affiliation with a new community” — primarily the Tea Party, Sorock says, which offers the kind of “camaraderie” that the GOP itself no longer provides its members. …
Finally, a fourth reason Republicans identified for leaving was “perceived betrayal by the GOP establishment.”
It’s not time for the GOP to roll over and put its hooves in the air just yet.
The good news for Republicans, Sorock says, is that disaffiliation can be reversed if Republicans strive to create a sense of community around shared principles and abandon the “two evils” argument — without attacking weak candidates.
One of two things will happen: (1) principled conservatives who truly believe in limited government and American exceptionalism will take over the party, the way socialists took over the Democrat Party; or (2) the Republican Party will be replaced by a new party representing Tea Party values.
The fork in the road is directly ahead. If (1) is going to happen, it will have to be very soon.
only 4?
LOL!!
Very little difference between the Nasty Party and Stupid Party.
(5) This one is TERMINAL
NO AMNESTY
K I L L
T H E
B I L L !!
Why should I vote for a Party that hates me? See tag line.
Funny how not supporting Mutt Romney and the rest of his mushy moderates is now fashionable.
We did tell you so.
All of which carries the clear implication that the people running this party believe that we’re all stupid.
Stick a fork in the GOP its done...’
Like the Whigs before it...it needs to die so a new conservative party can emerge out of the ashes like the phoenix
Freegards
LEX
I tried to explain this to my RINO carpool buddy on the way in this morning. He thinks the next election is the crucial one. I told him the last election was it, and we lost. I explained that in a race between a 'rat and a RINO, I would never again vote for the RINO. Their extreme left turn leaves not a dime's worth of difference between 'Rats and RINOs.
Establishment republicans often criticize democrats for trying to correct failed programs by just doing more of the same things that caused the programs to fail to begin with.
But when looking for answers on what to do to win more elections themselves, republicans do the same thing as democrats.
Their answer to attracting more voters is always the same - become more like democrats.
They write conservative sounding goals in their party platforms but never read them.
If they are going to lose elections anyway, they might try to practice what they preach in their lofty party platforms and be less like democrats.
They might be surprised at the outcome.
I no longer care one whit about supporting the RNC. Nor do I care about being ‘conservative’. The language that has meaning to me is that which is moral at its core. It is time to be moral above all else.
Because of the GOP there is ObamaCARE, RomneyCARE,
gay marriage imposed by Romney, open borders,
weaponizing al Qaeda, EBT cards for all criminal illegals,
IRS and NSA attacks on Americans while leaving
terrorists able to travel without passports,
and THAT is for starters.
The GOP protected the Obama coverup through Romney
and Rove, AND decimated the children of Gov. Palin
for Romney.
ARE THERE TEN HONEST MEN AND WOMEN IN THE GOP?
They stand for nothing. When you stand for nothing, you have no purpose.
amnesty,
capitulating,
disrespecting the base,
inability to use technology,
inability to reach out to young
utter failure to reaganize the MSM
utter failure to ATTACK
go along to get along
hatred of conservatives
hatred of anyone outside the beltway
phonies
The GOP is stuck in a nosedive and has reached terminal velocity. They are so out of touch with everyone but the 200 largest donors that they couldn’t find their asses with a baseball mitt. Screw the GOP. They left me, now I’m seeking another place to hang my Libertarian with Conservative underpinning hat.
South40 <-———— Registered as an Independent in 2007.
“community” is the keyword meaning it’s been infiltrated by the left.
I don’t want to see “community” again!
I am abandoning the GOP. Those idiots have no f’ing clue.
forgot
homsexual based marriage capitulation
anti second amendment capitulation
captiulation to ROP while demonizing any christians (closet atheists?)
DC is just hedonism central.
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