Posted on 01/06/2018 10:09:12 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
I’ve spoken to countless ‘smart’ folks since November’s Republican butt-kicking, Save Jerseyans, and I’ve gotten just as many opinions as to what needs to come next if the GOP is ever going to make a comeback in blueish places like the Garden State.
The party hierarchy/establishment consensus is… unclear, and anything but a compelling contrast at the moment. Chris Christie is (all but) gone and we’re entering into a period of chaos and transition. It might last a month or a decade. Stay tuned.
The political operative consensus is less ambiguous: get back to “moderate” Republicanism, emphasizing fiscal restraint and good stewardship and abandoning social conservatism to the wolves, a sentiment recently echoed by retiring assemblyman (and potential future statewide candidate?) Jack Ciattarelli of Somerset County, an encircled firewall of sorts for the trend which we’ll discuss in greater detail below.
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Matt Rooney (writer of the article) apparently failed high school English, because “could care less” means that one actually cares because he could actually care less than he does. “Could not care less” or “couldn’t care less” would indicate that one does not care at all, and is the proper way to express disdain.
I have an idea. Let’s stop trying to win the votes of pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-transgendered bathroom people. Let’s propose two very compelling options for these people: conversion or emigration.
In other words, return to being "Democrat Lite." No thanks.
We must go after these taxes at the state level. The criminal politicians at this level blames the Feds. But it is at the state level we are being screwed at.
How much less could they care?
“...I’ve gotten just as many opinions as to what needs to come next if the GOP is ever going to make a comeback in blueish places like the Garden State.”
Well it certainly isn’t logic, facts, science, math,common sense, appeals to decency, self-interest, self-preservation, property rights, low taxes, low corruption, etc. What is Plan B?
“I have an idea. Let’s stop trying to win the votes of pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-transgendered bathroom people.”
"...could care less / couldn’t care less..."
There are many NJ residents who could “care less” about higher taxes because they don’t pay any. NJ has been importing the poor/illiterate for decades and exporting the rich/well-off.
NJ is a lost cause thanks to H1B visas.
Failed high school English and apparently never thought even once about the logic of that expression.
Sure, Republican moderation has worked well. Just look at CA. Sensible, reasonable moderates dominate the state legislature. ROFL.
Yeah, that usage annoys me, as well.
It’s a sign of confused thinking and a weak mind. Generally it’s where I stop reading.
The only option for New Jersey conservatives is to move to Pennsylvania. There is nothing left for them there. And if anything the New Jersey GOP should move further to the right. The minority deserves a party that speaks for them. And by the way Chris Christie was a Democrat-Lite.
New Jersey Republicans have no other choice but to appeal to moderates socially. Bret Schundler couldn’t have done it in 2001 either.
Republicans in the deep blue states think that it is the only way that they can win.
That is a fact. I have family members who are planning on doing so.
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