To: Dead Corpse
“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.
203 posted on
08/29/2012 6:19:28 AM PDT by
Psalm 144
( "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me." Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: Psalm 144
They can. Possibly. This is a very deliberate and strategic move. This in not Karl Roves 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.Extremely well-stated. The problem that Tokyo Rove has overlooked is that this leaves a vaccuum to the right. A credible party to capture them WILL emerge.
204 posted on
08/29/2012 6:22:47 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
To: Psalm 144
They barely squeaked out two elections with the MODERATE Bush43. No matter how "extreme Right" the political Left wants to paint George, he just wasn't that solid a Conservative.
Willard isn't even HALF as conservative as McCain.
How'd that work out for us?
220 posted on
08/29/2012 6:36:06 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
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