Posted on 07/17/2015 8:33:32 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Bush “was the highest-rated of all the Republican candidates,” Univision reports, with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a one-time proponent of amnesty for illegals, coming in second with only a 35 percent approval rate
Let African Americans find out on their own that supporting a DNC that will cast them aside for Latino votes as soon as it's expedient-is going to cost them.
I say, the GOP must drop the minority ‘outreach’ like a bad habit.
Concentrate on the BASE and the BROAD conservative consensus on MOST issues.
The DNC can't combat a unified Conservative America.
Coulter is actually just parroting what many others have said.
Obama won in 2012 because his campaign went hard left, identified people who agreed with him but who traditionally didn’t vote, and turned them out to vote.
While Romney went the route of trying to convince undecided Moderates and leaners to vote for him.
Results speak for themselves. There’s a near graphical representation from the PJ Media Catalist article that I’ve posted in the past showing this.
But suppose some GOP candidate came out with a real jobs plan. A plan that said: We’ll get you - and more importantly - your children back to work, with solid middle-class factory jobs.
Are you supposing that the Dems have not said the very same thing...?
Obama is merely a symptom of the disease.
I have not read Ann Coulter’s book, but agree with her theory on principle, ie to appeal to white conservatives. However, does she account for demographic changes since Reagan? If she does, does she illustrate that the number of white conservatives will still overcome the changed demographics? I assume the answer is simply a matter of voter turnout.
I tend to agree. The problem is ... “they” are going to be the majority and right soon. Not at ALL suggesting the GOP “appeal” to them (a fools errand), just saying that this is clearly a “no win” scenario. Conservatives are old and a dying breed.
And yeah, they don’t particularly like Hillary, but they will vote for Hildabeast in droves.
Exactly, it’s all about GOTV ground game and retail politics.
It’s much easier to get someone who agrees with you to vote, even if they are a new voter who has never voted before, than it is to convince a fence-sitter to swing your way.
Thats what the 2012 Obama campaign was all about. They used data mining to identify people who were Liberals and therefore natural Obama voters, but weren’t regular voters. Then got them to vote.
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
Dennis Kucinich used to talk seriously about bringing back good factory jobs, but of course he's out of the picture now. And to my knowledge no current Democrat is talking about it. They all make free-stuff promises, but there's no talk about middle-class jobs.
At a town-hall meeting Obama was asked about this. He said forget it, those jobs aren't coming back. I find that attitude very puzzling.
I completely agree that legal immigration needs to be cut back to what it was before the Kennedy immigration bill of 1965.
First things first.
We have to stop the inundation of illegal aliens and stop our government from assisting them.
“The purpose of the GOP today is not to represent conservatives, it is to block them from power.”
You win the Internet today. SPOT on.
Lose by being for tax cuts for the rich, free trade to export jobs, for war in the mideast. Now the best way for them to win is to point out the absolute waste that Hillary is, unless, they run another waste like they have in the past.
Yes. If a candidate respected and sought the white and conservative voter and supported jobs and upward mobility in the usual democrat voter he/she could grab the country by storm.
Whites voted 59% to 39% for Romney.
“Look at the culture. Regan would not be electable today”.
Wrong. Obama got no where close to the votes he got in 2008 and Romney got no where close to the conservative votes that McCain managed to get in 2008. If Romney had gotten the same number of white conservatives as McCain got in 2008 Romney would be president. Numbers were down for both candidates in 2012. The GOP needs to concentrate on those conservatives that have stayed away in 2012 and 2008. Run Cruz and see how many Christian conservatives stay home. He would win in a landslide. And by the way McCain getting more conservatives than Romney was because of Palin. If she hadn’t been on the ticket Obama would have beaten him by double digits.
That is the culture part.
Being an active conservative in may fields is a job ending event. In certain fields, massive pressure is put on you to conform to the liberal line (my bride is a teacher).
Most people will not stand up to the pressure.
And it isn’t just the raw numbers, but where those numbers are. California, Texas, and many other states have high concentrations of Latino’s and minorities. They will swing the election by their electoral votes alone.
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