Rush likes to trash the mushy middle, but they are the ones who win national elections. Most are moderately conservatives, but not always on the same issues. The key to the long term success of the post war Democratic party was do to the FDR coalition, Nixon’s silent majority was a coalition of lifelong Republicans and conservative Democrats as was the Reagan revolution. OBama won because he brought the middle to his side. We will not ever win another national election if we demand fealty to hard right conservative positions. That does not mean we shouldn’t run conservative candidates, but we must give the middle a reason to vote for us. I still think they want low taxes, reasonably small government, and a strong defense. We saw Gay marriage go down in of all places CA. When O’Reilly was on the View he mentioned personal responsibility and pegged Luntz’s meter with both D’s and R’s. But they also want reasonably priced health care, good schools, safe streets and plentiful and reasonably priced energy. All of these things can be achieved without large expansive and expensive government programs. We need people who can come up with the ideas and articulate them well(Newt comes to mind). Not any easy task, but doable. However, we can’t freeze people out because they don’t agree with us on one or two issues. As we saw Tuesday they will find a new home. Being a ideologue does you no good if you can’t get elected and can’t take over the reins of power. 80% of something is better than 0% of everything.
That makes sense, because the other day the mushy middle elected a hate-filled turd world socialist dictator in waiting...can't wait till all the "absentee" ballots are counted.