Half of all U.S. wage-earners pay no income tax. Yet that half and their families receive free education K-12, Medicaid, rent supplements, food stamps, earned income tax credits, Pell grants, welfare payments, unemployment checks and other benefits.
Why should poor, working- and middle-class Hispanics, the vast majority, vote for a party that will reduce taxes they don’t pay, but cut the benefits they do receive?
I don’t see a GOP candidate taking CA or NY anytime in the near future. Obama lands Air Force One in both states long enough to fill his money bags. Union employees, the unemployed and hispanics own those two states.
It’s somewhere around 50-50 (according to the odds makers). If Obama wins in November, democracy and political parties will no longer be relevant to restoring freedom, and it doesn’t matter what happens between the November election and the unavoidable consequence of that mistake.
If Romney wins, the GOP name will survive. Whether it survives as a big government leftist party or is taken over by the Tea Party is the real question. I want decent Americans to take back the GOP and keep the name (such as it is).
Will we become more like Europe?
Or, Mexico?
“In the long run”, said Milton Friedman, and as an economist, Jew, celebrity, and a Nobel prize winner, he’d know better than most, “we’re all dead.”
Buchanan hasn’t been right about anything his entire life. He’s properly attacked here on FR for his views. Why would any rational person believe him now?
That strategy is for every Republican in a solidly blue state to switch to the Green Party.
If the Green Party gets a sufficient percentage of the national vote then they can become a real third party. The ultraliberals will then feel more comfortable about joining them. This will bleed people away from the Democrats allowing Republicans to win a plurality of votes in many elections.
This will require conservatives to vote for people whom they violently disagree with and who in some cases will be reprehensible human beings.
The ultralibs believe that Obama is a pawn of Big Business. They hate him almost as much as we do. We need to tap into this by supporting the Green Party.
But we won't because good Christians will be repulsed at the thought of voting for gay atheists, 2nd Amendment supporters will lose their lunches at the thought of voting for a gun-grabber, Pro-Lifers will deem it immoral to support a pro-abort, etc.
Voting for a Republican in California or New York or Deleware is truly a wasted voted. Voting Green, although problematic, at least has the advantage of being strategically advantageous.
I must agree.
In February he said that Israel was a bigger threat than Iran.
In the long run, everything is dead.
You mean, ignorant young minorities who have no idea how America became great? :)
When democrats are in power they do everything possible to pave the way for a larger democrat base year after year. They are just about monolithic in the pursuit of their agenda. You never hear talk of democrats “reaching across the aisle” to help republicans pass something unless it benefits democrats.
When republicans are in power they rarely do anything to protect and grow the republican base.
In fact - they always lose ground by turning on their own base and frequently “reaching across the aisle” to work with democrats on programs and policies that help democrats pander to their own base.
Republicans never seem to learn that they cannot out-pander democrats.
George Bush went against his own base to help Ted Kennedy pass the enormously expensive Medicare Prescription Plan and got no credit at all from the left for doing so. In fact - they turned on him and ridiculed him the minute he signed it into law.
So the democrats always manage to fortify and add to their base no matter who is in power and the republicans watch their base shrink, year after year.
With the massive legal immigration from Africa and the Mideast, and the outright lawbreaking Obama is doing to add illegals to the population, it is only a matter of time before the Black, Muslim and Hispanic vote grows enough to give democrats an unbeatable majority.
The GOPE is dead as far as the future is concerned.
The TEA party will over time reinvigorate the new GOP.
Tea Party grows.
The income tax is short-lived. Consumption tax is going to come.
You are the the Cindy Sheehan of the Republican Party.
You are the Tim Burton movie of the American Dream.
Ugh.
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“Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP.”
Since 1928, the Republicans have not won the Presidency without having a Nixon or a Bush somewhere at the top of the ticket.
You mean the GOP that might not even stand up and fight the contraceptive mandate and religious freedom??
Already is for anything conservative