Yeah! The message is they can write off conservative voters, so they better moderate their views, if they want to win. It is the kind of thinking that elected Clinton, to punish Bush Sr for breaking his pledge on taxes. Less than a month after swearing in, and working harder than he ever had in his life, President Clinton reneged on his promised middle class tax cut. Then he raised taxes.
As a consequence the GOP realized the error of it's ways and pushed arch conservative Bob Dole to placate the right fringe of the party. Conservatives stayed home to send their message once again. In response the party pushed mega-paleocon Dubya. What an amazing strategy the conservatives have to get their way.
After 4 years of RINO Dubya, the right wing again flexed their muscle and propelled the combined 3rd party vote to nearly 1%. Voter apathy over the 2 main parties propelled the highest voter participation since 1968.
In the long run both parties have the same masters.
Yes the voters. Those who vote 3rd party or stay home are irrelevant. One of the 2 parties party will win and they can be assured that you did not vote for them, therefore they have no obligation to listen to you.
Are you kidding? They pander to Conservative voters at election time and once in office they only have ears for the K street crowd. You have already been written off. A RESPONSIBLE leader would look at the condition of the finances of this nation and drop the idea of any tax cut right now. Unlike Reagans day today all that "saved income tax" goes to China and India not the USA . It only benefits Wall street not Main street.We need to pay our bills and stop being in debt to COMMUNIST CHINA
Was Clinton REALLY worse than Bush? Bush and the Republican Congress has skyrocketed the national debt, sent millions of middle class jobs to India and China ( along with critical technology), increased the number of H1 visas to make sure that the educated had to fight foreigners for lower paying jobs and now is plotting to make America "little Mexico" .
And you are worried about them "moving" middle if we do not vote for them??
You gotta live in a different America than I do. Other than the Supreme court we have not seen any conservative decisions . And to be honest we can not even be sure of the supreme court appointments position until the appointer is out of office. It was a "Republican court " that has moved this country left.
Until they know we expect them to be the representatives they pretend to be at election time they will continue to think we are dumb as rocks.
The only thing they seem to give a damn about it their own power and money
Trust me that if they postpone the immigration bill as soon as they have their positions secure for another 3 years they will open the borders so we all live in an American barrio as they live in their gated communities.