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If that was the "priority", then why did the GOP Party Bosses contrive to put a milqetoast jackass at the top of the ticket?

Didn't they figure this one out with McCain? Dole? Bush 41?

YOU CANNOT JETTISON YOUR VOTING BASE AND EXPECT TO WIN.

The Dems figured this one out with Clinton. Lost it with the thoroughly unlikable Gore. And got it back now with King Zero.

As the lead says, turn the lights out. What's done is done.

“YOU CANNOT JETTISON YOUR VOTING BASE AND EXPECT TO WIN.”

They can. Possibly. This is a very deliberate and strategic move. This in not Karl Rove’s seasonal pawn grabbing. This marks an attempt to permanently abandon social conservatives in an effort to move towards occupying the political spectrum of the middle to the center left. In short, they will trade the conservatives they had for the chance of permanently picking up moderates to middle left. This is a well thought out structural change for the GOP which wishes only to retain power and to have a more credulous and submissive base in perpetuity.

Any conservatives or former conservatives who continue to vote GOP is gravy, but not really part of the plan. The plan is to raid some of the Democrat base and permanently move the whole GOP base to the left.

Alf Landon, Wendall Willkie, Tom Dewey, Richard Nixon (in his first run he was to the left of the Democrat), Barry Goldwater (still had majority and GOP-e backing ~ Rockefeller Republicans walked out), Ford, Bush I (second run), Bob Dole, and John McCain ~ it's a huge line up of losers. The handful of Republicans since FDR came along got there without GOP-e's help ~ although Ronaldus Magnus certainly had some trouble with them.