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Posted on 11/26/2012 4:18:45 PM PST by Rufus2007
Filling in on Rush Limbaugh’s Monday radio show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn said that Republicans lost big on Election Day because less engaged and more uniformed voters turned out in force.
“We do very well in off years, in the midterms — 1994, 2002,” Steyn said. “Republicans can have good years then because essentially they’re low-turnout elections — people who are engaged in politics vote. In the presidential years, people voted — a broader pool of voters comes in, and they’re basically people who swim in the broader culture. They’re not people who know the name of their congressmen or governor, and [they] aren’t terribly interested.”
Steyn, author “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” added that the GOP has had persistent problems getting motivated voters to the polls.
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It's all Monday morning quarterbacking, but with a some sort of moral guidebook in the culture, it's going to be hard for a Republican to win again.
Romney did better than McCain, but anyone with a pulse could have done that. Until Republicans get a better understanding of popular culture and learn how to communicate their beliefs in a modern fashion, they will lose to the democrats who have mastered the emotional manipulation of the masses.
Instead, Candidate Romney made it about mere symptoms of tyrannical government: the economy and lack of jobs.
When people are free and government is bound, the economy and jobs naturally occur, because they arise out of the optimism, freedom and creativity of free people pursuing their own happiness.
On the other hand, when government officials ignore "the chains of the Constitution" (Jefferson's term), assuuming unconstitutional and coercive power to impose restraints on the liberties of "the People," economic freedom, opportunity, prosperity and plenty fall by the wayside.
The 2012 election is history, but the long term consequences of loss of freedom will punish rising generations for years to come!
I think Steyn (and you) are right. Another way to put it: Romney ran a “talking points” campaign without much depth and explanation. If Lincoln could make serious arguments to untutored farmers, I don’t see why contemporary candidates can’t to our more- (if ill-) schooled voters. Thomas Sowell has also argued for more substance in campaigns.
Well said!-put!
On the other hand, Obama didn’t run on any agenda except FORWARD. Not even a plan for a 2nd term. I guess he didn’t need it - instead, he just bashed Romney and made what he thought were cute remarks about Big Bird, Romnesia, etc.
Yet, people expected Romney to go into details about his plan. If he had done that - then the media would have torn him to shreds. Heck, they did anyway. And, not knowing who he would have as cabinet members or elected Senators, etc., it would be difficult to lay out specifics.
This is my opinion, for what its worth.
***”We do very well in off years...***
Mark, we luv ya, but just who do you mean by ‘we’?
If you mean those who want to live in a free, prosperous, Constitutional America, then, no, ‘we’ don’t do well in ‘off years’. Or ‘on’ years for that matter.
If you’re talking about Republicans, then I guess off years are better for them.
The Republican Party is finished, Mark. Whether or not a third party emerges, the GOP had it’s last hurrah with GWB. And it’s not the fault of those who want to preserve the Republic.
We must take into account, however, the depth of understanding possessed by the authors of those essays, as well as their passion and commitment to the ideas of liberty. Where are we to find candidates of such perception and devotion to liberty today?
Perhaps an appeal to Divine Providence is in order.
Which begs the question: what the hell did Steyn expect when he was pimping Mitt hard by trashing Newt in Dec and Jan?
Indeed.
Well, now that you’ve made yourself feel important and elnightened by promoting a third party (yeah, that will work, since there are only about 75 parties now. I’m sure YOUR new one WILL be the one that works).....you should know that many of the good guys are elected in off years....
Now, back to the purity of your own irrelevance.
We are in WW3. It’s already being fought, and the enemy is winning so far.
It’s not really so much about politics as about good and evil on a prime level. There’s a reason the left and the muslims hate C.S.Lewis and Tolkien. Anyone human know what the deal is.
Well, now that you’ve made yourself feel important and elnightened by promoting a third party (yeah, that will work, since there are only about 75 parties now. I’m sure YOUR new one WILL be the one that works).....you should know that many of the good guys are elected in off years....
Now, back to the purity of your own irrelevance.
Mark is reading my posts. We do have two electorates. We win in the off years, because the dumbocrats are only motivated by their savior and haven’t a clue who their congressman and senator are.
They haven’t a clue about how a republic governs and the whole checks and balances thing.
Besides it’s too much work to actually vote two times in a four year span.
The presidential elections are for preserving their freebies and perks.
I think you can be substantive without exposing yourself too much to demagoguery. Obama gutted welfare reform, one of the most successful social policies of recent times, and it go-put!t little attention in the campaign. The changes were hard to explain, but it could have been done. There were dozens of similar errors by his administration that could have been explained as taking us toward dependency instead of toward an opportunity society.
Please excuse the extra “puts” in my posts here. I must have had the word on my clipboard-put!
Untutored farmers could think circles around the pigs with their faces buried in the federal handout trough Republicans today have to contend with.
I saw Spielberg's Lincoln film this weekend and all I can say is that Steyn is right. We're simply being out-hustled by the left in terms of cultural influence. That movie is a brilliantly executed piece of liberal propaganda and we have no answer to it.
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