Posted on 05/17/2014 5:11:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
amen!!!
Pompous,sanctimonious self righteousness loses elections
5 ways to spot a rino:
1. They write articles talking about how conservatives shoot themselves in the foot by not “moderating” their beliefs.
2. They brag only about being a “fiscal conservative or use terms like “I personally opposes abortion but”....
3. They come out in support of drug legalization or homosexual marriage by claiming conservatism calls for the government to stay out of it.
4. They appeal to, apologize to, and have voter outreach efforts to leftists who will never vote for them anyway. At the same time they pretend to be conservative only when there is a primary coming.
5. When they lose in a GOP primary they either endorse the dem or run as one in the next election.
You are spot on
Another 'lesser evil' voter.
I'm not looking for a perfect candidate, but the candidate must be pro-life, pro-gun, against amnesty, against socialized medicine, and have a record of acting to make government smaller.
That's all. If a candidate meets those requirements, he/she can have my vote.
And that's why I couldn't vote for Romney.
/johnny
You are a litmus test conservative.
My way or the highway. America doesn’t matter if the litmus paper changes color
If you vote for a liberal, you are a liberal. Even if you vote for a liberal (R).
/johnny
Voting for a liberal republican doesn't get America back.
/johnny
Only squishes use therm "reach out". I've had enough reaching out, be good if RINOs could reach out to us instead.
Have more babies, lots more. Raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord. The Ultimate Establishment is going to win with you or without you!
The complete idiot who wrote this article can't see his own cognitive dissonance. Tea Partiers are more than able to challenge liberal control of cultural institutions, but we keep getting sand bagged by RINOs. You can't have RINOs shouting down Conservative ideas and expect those same RINOs to stand up to the msm twinks. A socialist (R) is a socialist(D). They need to go. Period.
Some good points there.
For instance, we don’t win by retreating from the culture war. We should be supporting and promoting good television, music, arts, and books. Its why I pimp AMC’s “Turn” as worth watching. Its good pro American patriotic TV with a strong historical story line and I want AMC to continue to make shows like it.
We should encourage good behavior from people we don’t much care from otherwise even if their motivations are different than ours. For instance Black pastors in Detroit are opposing gay marriage. For them its at least partly a turf war over grievance turf but that’s fine if it helps to advance our cause. We can worry about their grievances later.
Ideological jujitsu. Use left wing causes as a vehicle for advancing our own. CL Bryant suggests that conservatives should embrace black history month as a means of teaching the truth about the conservative inspired drive for equality and freedom.
Solutions over self righteousness. When we see democrat disasters like Detroit (and virtually every other city in the nation) don’t sit back and laugh. That encourages and empowers democrats to keep doing it and dragging the whole country along for the ride. Instead, seriously study the problems and look for solutions and promote those solutions to show what conservatism can do rather than proving what conservatism won’t do.
Comments of boot licking squishes ignored bump.
John Hawkins is all over the place with this article. Sounds as if it was a speech he had written but couldn’t deliver in person after all.
Lots of points made but doesn’t seem to accomplish anything much. Maybe it’s just my allergies on a Saturday morning.
Except for the part where they lose elections.
I think the article has it wrong here. Textbook liberal followers like to be lied to. They don’t care about what anyone can actually do for them. They like to hear what “sounds good” to them because it makes them “feel good” and they can then use their imagination to start believing it’s helping them whether or not it actually is. To a liberal, it’s not about truth. It’s all about how good it sounds and how good it makes them feel to hear it.
Concise and spot on.
Looks like 5 recipes for failure to me. Especially the first one: we’re not reaching out to people who disagree with us. Anyone who has ever done sales realizes that you rarely if ever sell to someone who is pathologically opposed to buying your product or service. And focusing resources on people who are not interested in what you’re selling is simply flushing those resources down the drain.
Instead of focusing resources on those who oppose you, how bout spending resources on those who might be receptive?
Big picture, the conservative diaspora is more of a problem than any of these 5 issues. Conservatives are spread too thin geographically and have great difficulty being a dominant force really much of anywhere as a result.
1. The author makes it sound as if conservatives have a hard time winning elections because we don't do a good job appealing to voters. There might be some truth to that, but appealing to people isn't really the problem here. The voters are there, and they are receptive to the conservative message. It's the MONEY that isn't on board with the conservative message -- and by "money" I meant the corporate interests that finance election campaigns in this country.
2. Conservative candidates face an uphill battle when they're fighting against opponents who offer government money as a solution to all of the world's ills. The candidate who stands up and says we have to put down the crack pipe will always lose an election when most of the voters are crack addicts.
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