Posted on 06/09/2015 3:53:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
” I would venture a guess that a lot of them did not want a Mormon.”
you guessed right based on certain freeper comments during the 2012 campaign and even today. i thought the religion issue was resolved back when JFK ran for president, but i think some preferred a trojan-Christian to win in 2012 rather than have a mormon become president.
make that ‘delegate’
“I don’t have to cite raw data. Just google it and you can find out all the info that there is. Its not a secret that 3 million stayed home. I’m not revealing any secrets here.”
Okay, I read a few of these stories, and they point in inconsistent directions, depending on their bias.
So I still don’t know if there were 3 million “conservatives who stayed home,” or who, or why, period.
I don't think that was it at all.
I voted for him, but without a lot of enthusiasm.
He was, and is, just a squishy Rino Republican, one without conviction.
You said it all, in three sentences.
When she apologizes for her boo Shiite in 2012, I’ll forgive her...
That’s an interesting, if completely incorrect statement.
I used to work in the magazine business, and it shares a lot of parallels to politics—you have all the headaches of the service sector along with a manufacturing overhead. Ultimately, the product has value only to its audience, and it has no shelf life. Sales are split into two distinct groups: new sales and conversions (renewals). You do not make any money on new sales; conversions are where you make all your money.
In politics, primaries are all about conversions; elections are your new sales. Now, this is the part the GOP has forgotten: new sales come at a very high cost, but conversions come only with production.
The reason why GOP primaries demoralize its own members is that party doesn’t require any real record (the actual “product” of politics). All the “candidates” have to do is produce a marketing campaign. That is why you have serial retreads like Huckster and novices like Carson—they don’t need anything to run! The GOP is all about new sales, all the time. That is a death knell in any sector.
Now, not only is the GOP not making conversions, they are actually driving people out. The only real question is the Elephant (how apropos) in the living room:
Is it stupidity or intent?
...and not presenting a clear difference to those who are in the lower information crowd but who are not necessarily liberal as well....
not only 80, but 84, 94, 2010 and to some degree, 2014. All were “base” elections.
O'Really has always been a pinhead, and inconsistent to boot.
For the longest time after 911, his PC inclination got so bad I stopped watching him for a couple of years.
Why?
His PC inclinations. Back then, for the longest time he kept repeating, "We can't blame all muslims for the barbarism and bloodthirst of a few..."
Yes we can, Bill, and to his tiny credit after a decade he finally got the message : At least 160,000,000 killers and probably twice that many supporting them.
Today O'Really is at it again. What's more important, history or "political correctness?"
Edmund Burke did NOT say "...for men AND WOMEN to do nothing."
The only thing worse that a pinhead is a politically correct pinhead!
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