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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You want to do something about NJ? Or for that matter any State with a big city. Now is the time to get the black vote back to the R side. Lower taxes for those that pay taxes and more importantly, the lowest black unemployment since they started keeping records. Appeal to the mothers, remind them that employed sons are much less likely to be shot and killed than unemployed ones. Show them that they are better off now than they have been for the last 8 years. They are not the lost cause that most pubbies think they are. Heck, even if you split the vote you win!
Weird Al even covered that error in his song “Word Crimes”
no, it’s not their only option, but that’s what many do. It solves no problem except a temporary fix for the individual person who bails on the blueing state and leaves others behind instead of truly trying to work toward change.
Too many good Conservatives in blueing states don’t truly get involved to fight back, they just take it til it’s too much then bail for supposed better state.
yup! just do some thing - but unfortunately it seems too much effort for many conservatives and decent republicans and instead they choose to just cut and run. very sad because not being involved is what allows the states to turn liberal - blue.
Too many lazy people “couldn’t care less” about proper grammar or syntax.
That’s my plan. I’m in Illinois and less than an hour from Indiana, which is where I plan to move. The way I see it I’d rather move to a state that already agrees with my principles and live in peace than to spend a lifetime complying with laws I despise and fighting a government that I know for a fact will NEVER change. Not unless a nuke or a quick-killing virus hit Cook County.
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