Posted on 09/09/2014 6:34:46 AM PDT by maggief
With primary season over, the GOP is beginning to inch back to the center.
Republican Senate and House candidates have begun to loudly embrace more moderate policies such as an increase in the minimum wage and over-the-counter birth control in an effort to win over swing voters and soften their image.
GOP strategists say the battle between now and Election Day to decide control of the Senate and the size of Republicans’ House majority will focus on that sliver of voters in the middle.
“We’re starting to hear more about [these issues] than before because the voters who are at the ideological ends of the spectrum are already accounted for this election. So the moderate middle, generally, are the voters that are up for grabs,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster who’s done work this cycle on appealing to female and swing voters.
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This is the stupid article the MSM and the GOPe conspire to write now.
In another 2 weeks, the MSM will betray the GOPe and report “GOP too extreme for Middle America.”
“the GOP is beginning to inch back to the center”
The idiot who wrote this piece must be hanging on to the edge of the earth by his fingernails if he doesn’t realize “the GOP” wasn’t already at “the center.” Now the GOP is lurching left of center. And feels quite content to do so.
“Center” of what?
Yes, the way for the GOP to win elections is to piss off conservatives who will then stay home. Just ask President Romney how well that works.
The geographic center of my home office is two feet to my left. The equivalent center of my home is 40 feet to my left. The center of my block is 200 yards to my left. The center of the US is about 1500 miles (and also NW) to my left.
Whenever the left moves further left, that forces “the center” to move further left, until it is further left than even the left used to be, and what used to be “the center” becomes the extreme right, just as where I am sitting in my home office is to the extreme right of the geographic center of the US.
When Republicans moved to the center in the 1950s, the center was not the same place that it is today, because the left keeps going further and further left. The only way the GOP can “move to the center” in 2014 is to become leftist; if they are the same centrists they were in the 1950s, they become the “extreme right.” For which we can all thank Hegelian dialectic, which has been the tool the left has used to seduce the population, generation by generation, to accept as “the center” what used to be extreme leftism.
I am confused how changing birth control to over the counter is moving left. It’s actually a shrewd move to eliminate this false ‘war on women’ bullcrap that seems to work on too many gullible idiots.
In the “center” all you get is RUN OVER!!
You WIN by telling voters WHAT YOU STAND FOR!!!
THAT is what gets them out of the house!
Or as Rush put it....
“What’s the shortest book in the world, ‘Great Moderates in History’”
So.. They are moving right for a change?
Other words = abandoned the Right as usual.
Regardless, if elected, it’s what they’ll do anyway. That’s what happened last time. And they’ll do it again.
Romney was the first nominee in history to win hugely among the independents, yet lose the race, and he did it in an election that couldn’t lose.
—Romney first to win independents big, lose election
—”Whoever wins independent voters in Ohio, wins Ohio,” Beeson said on “Fox News Sunday,” two days before the election.
He was, of course, wrong. Romney won self-identified Independents in Ohio by a overwhelming 10 points, according to exit polls, but lost the state to President Barack Obama by 2 points.
A similar trend was seen across much of the country — Romney won among Independents by 5 points, 50-45, but lost to Obama, 51-48.
—INFOGRAPHIC: Obama Lost Independent Vote In Almost Every Swing State
The president only won the independent vote in one battleground state: North Carolina.
Things looked very different for Obama in 2008, when independent voters came out in huge numbers to support him.
Just before Election Day, the Wall Street Journal reported those polling numbers had hardly changed, with Romney overwhelmingly leading among independent voters across the country. Republican pollster Bill McInteruff told the Journal the Democrats were “really flirting with trouble if you’re losing independents by this margin.”
Focus on that sliver of voters in the middle.
Or as everyone calls them the confused ones.
Or cement their image as idiots with women. Why not over-the-counter blood pressure medicine or insulin or heart medications while your at it?
By trivializing women's health issues? I fail to see where that eliminates the 'war on women' image. We're not talking ibuprofin here. When I first went on birth control I had an in-depth talk with my doctor about which type was best, what the side effects were, what the long term effects were, which fit in better with my family health history. These idiots think that the Pill is the Pill is the Pill, and that one type is as good as another so just go down to the CVS and pick which package looks nicest. Bragging about your ignorance of woman's issues like this will only make women wonder what other issues of importance to us don't you care anything about.
Why shouldn’t they when they know they have a base of conservative suckers who will vote for them regardless of their actions. Heck if I were the GOPE I wouldn’t give a second thought to saying or doing anything to win because they do not have any fear of their base whatsoever.
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