Posted on 09/19/2014 7:38:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The latest polls suggest the GOP now has only a 50–50 chance of retaking the Senate.
There needs to be a mass layoff — of highly paid GOP consultants. Otherwise we risk a repeat of 2012, when overconfident Republicans in the middle of the worst economy since the 1970s became convinced that all they had to do to win was not be Obama. And they lost.
Romney’s strategy was simple. On the social issues, avoid, downplay, mute. On the economic issues, sound vague, promise to help job creators, and wait for the other team to self-destruct.
The RNC’s “autopsy” of the 2012 election reinforced the idea that doing more of what didn’t work would be the pathway to victory. If only we add more women and more diverse ethnicities to the GOP ticket while avoiding Akin-esque gaffes, we can win. “Don’t do stupid stuff,” while always good advice, is no more a winning strategy for the GOP than it is a foreign policy for a great nation.
It didn’t work then, and it is not working now.
In the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove acknowledged that despite the horrible environment for Democrats “a GOP senate majority is still in doubt.” Why? The Architect is convinced that his model is sound — donors just need to open their wallets to the consultants to script more TV ads.
While Democrats are out-spending Republicans, and GOP donors should take notice and correct this, the relatively narrow spending gap would not make the difference in a wave election.
Take Monica Wehby’s struggling campaign in Oregon. The state is an outlier for Republicans today, so a Wehby victory there would represent a profound rejection of Democrats. Perhaps that is not to be expected. But she is the perfect test case for the RNC “autopsy” strategy:
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Furthermore, if you go down to West Virginia and tell the Miner Union members there that they are liberals they will spit in your eye.
If an idea is predicated on destroying the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, it's an idea worth destroying. Pure democracy without the checks of a Constitution is the equivalence of two Hollywood liberals and a conservative voting on whether or not the conservative has to see Farenheit 9/11. People who want to establish that precedent are worth fighting against.
What part of ‘Government Shall Make No Law’ do you not understand? You can’t tell people how they should think or vote.
Or ‘Congress Shall Make No law...’
‘Strategy’ is what the Dem’s do.
They lie during the election, and pretend to be moderate-conservative. Then they morph into communist apparatchiks.
HONEST politicians run based upon their convictions, and allow the voters to see what they’re really getting.
Maybe the GOP should try being the HONEST party for a while, rather than trying to beat the Christ-hating socialists at duplicity?
If liberals were merely stupid, the laws of probability would dictate that at least some of their decisions would serve America's interests. That never has been the case, and nothing suggests it ever will be. It really does come down to, "Do you think traitorous liberals should be allowed to operate on American soil?", and the Founders and conservatives would strongly disagree with that statement. If you agree with that statement, you are harming our country.
There were disagreements galore among the Founders at the time. Jefferson’s views would be considered completely off the wall today. Treason is already illegal and if someone is found to fall under that legal standard there are means to prosecute.
He exposed himself as a liberal Dem when he announced he was running for president.
Please read the part about Wehby, the GOP RINO running for Senate in Oregon.
She is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage.
But she's a Republican, so we have to support her, right?
This woman is going to get crushed because the base is going to skip over her selection and the libs will vote for the Rat anyway.
Keep promoting leftist RINOs, you're going to keep losing elections.
Kiss my ass boy.
What the Hell are you talking about? The GOP has been trying to be more like the Democrats. It has about as much in common with libertarianism as Josef Stalin did.
LOL. C'mon cc, Wehby is a leftist RINO puke running as a Republican. Shouldn't we still print out the flyers and GOTV for her?
Whoa.
Jihad vs being in chains and getting fed daily rations by the elites.
A swift kick in the ass is worth 1000 hours whining on a couch. This isn’t a new problem between Conservatives and GOP-E. Conservatives just enjoy being the battered spouse.
It still isn’t making any more sense.
Then I can’t help you, pal. You must enjoy being walked on.
Who knows what you are struggling to say, but you sure got your digs in against conservatives.
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