Interesting. Mr.Vigurie raises tons of money—but only if the election is nationalized on broad national issues that he can promote through emails and mail solicitations to single issue voters.
His company doesn’t work on local elections for local candidates as far as I know.
Minimum wage polls as very popular even with those who say they are Republicans.
One thing about Dems, they are always updating their arguments. They invented a whole bunch on the minimum wage. GOP seems happy repeating arguments 30 years old.
GOP seems to have two fractions : Those in safe seats who feel they need no arguments and those in competitive seats who as you see just give in.
Progressives progress in their goals. Win part of an issue and use it to fight the next.
Run against two/six more years of 0bama/Reid/Pelosi big government unsustainable debt socialism ....
Nationalizing the election requires good Conservative principles to be enunciated forcefully. The Republican Party is almost as liberal as its parent company the Democrat Party. Republicans would rather lose to Democrats than win with conservatives or conservative positions.
Quite frankly, and I can’t believe I am saying this, I agree with them. If there is anything America hates more than ODimwit it’s the GOP.
Proof of what so many believe that the Pubbies are more than content to be the minority party, take none of the blame, do little or no work but enjoy all the perks of being in a BIG government.
Quote: “Goldwater lost in 1964 in an election defined largely by national issues. . .”
Goldwater lost because LBJ was a dirty SOB running on the memory of a murdered President. I’ll see the GOPe’s Barry Goldwater and raise them a Ford, Bush I, Dole, McCain, and Romney.
The shell shocked PTSD republican strategy— don’t do ANYTHING cause it might make waves and disrupt our chance at winning the election
And if they gain control of the senate— we still can’t do anything, cause if we do, we might lose control of the senate in the next election.
“Republicans never win elections unless they are nationalized.”
If this is true, and I’m willing to believe it is, it’s because Republicans are stupid and/or incompetent, and can’t or won’t follow the Democrats in the winning strategies of identity politics and going after the marginal voters (or “undecideds”). As for “movement conservatives,” get this: tge Republican party, except in relation to other parties, isn’t conservative. Parties aren’t ideological movements. They are open conspiracies by private interests to capture government for their own ends. They may use ideologies, and ideologists may use them, but the two are not identical and unless by freak chance they won’t happen to be, and then only temporarily.
Republican campaigns should all be ...”if you want more obamacare and amnesty vote democrat.”
do that on a national level. hang this around the neck of every democrat. and win.
but the pubbies have the culture of death.
And exactly when has the Republican Party EVER 'confronted Obama and the Democrats'?
The Republican House just passed a CR that fully funds Obamacare, for crying out loud.
They are competing with Santa candidates with fear instead of a good alternative plan and a backbone.