Sure it does. The Democrats use fear to great success every election cycle with their various minority and victim groups. The Democrats do an amazing job convincing blacks, Hispanics, single women, etc, that the Republican party hates them and wants to ruin their lives.
If I voted GOP, I would be enabling those liberals and accelerating the move left.
When you don't participate in a party, it ignores you. It will move left faster without conservative voices to push for a different direction.
Refusing to vote for a Republican primary winner because they aren't conservative enough is generally just as bad as mushy moderates who refuse to vote for legitimate movement conservative primary victors because they are supposedly too conservative. Both are instances of people throwing temper tantrums because they didn't get their way.
The GOP has certainly convinced me that they have no use for conservatives, so I'll just let them sleep in the bed they made for themselves.
You aren't making the sale. The GOP remains irrelevant since they can't put up conservative candidates and actively supress conservatives.
/johnny
Amazing, we are only weeks past your last disaster as you lost the presidency to Jimmy Carter the II, with your liberalism, and already you are fighting to make sure that the candidate four years from now will be another liberal.
The tea party is the best thing to happen to the GOP in years, leading to historic gains, and then you and Romney create yet another disastrous election and manage to pull out a loss that we all thought was impossible at one time.
Your agenda is a mystery, unless it consists of merely losing elections to the democrats, forever.
The GOP, on the other hand, used Fear of Obama to get righteous people to vote for an amoral statist liberal like Romney.
Both are instances of people throwing temper tantrums because they didn't get their way.
Statements like these, any time comparing the "wrong" side as being like children, are becoming a litmus test for me. That mindset reveals an ugly arrogance and presumption, a combination of pompousness and contempt. Worthy of ignoring on that principle alone.
We're all adults here, FRiend.