Posted on 02/22/2012 7:52:09 AM PST by CaroleL
As the fight for the Republican presidential nomination chugs along, the party establishment continues to push former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as the only contender who could win over independent voters in a general election. Just like in 2008, the message is that only a moderate Republican who fails to inspire the conservative base can defeat Barack Obama in November. It was the wrong message then and it is the wrong message now.
While making so-called electability (also known as the ability to win over independent voters) the only criteria that should be used to choose a candidate, most who do so fail to acknowledge why independent voters exist. These are people who are so minimally informed and marginally interested that they cannot choose between liberal and conservative ideology, the nanny state or self-reliance, spreading the wealth around or the right to keep what one earns, mandatory worship of big government or true religious freedom.
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I think the two Catholics (Gingrich and Santorum) have some cross-over appeal for Hispanics and for the old “Reagan Democrats’ who were often union workers with strong personal family values.
Paul certainly has appeal to Libertarians and Romney? Well, I think Romney’s only appeal outside the party is that he’s not a Republican.
Trolling for blog hits again I see...
Oh, look the dunce in the back of the rooms wants to say something.
If the candidate is selected at the convention, the so-called “Brokered Convention”, the GOP must take care to ensure that the image of fat-cat political bosses in smoke filled rooms making unsavory deals is avoided.
the GOP must take care to ensure that the image of fat-cat political bosses in smoke filled rooms making unsavory deals is avoided. ............................................... No mater who runs for office, the Fat Cats will always be there. $$$ Wheeling and dealing is political.
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