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To: WRhine
Lots a Luck on “getting out the vote” on Election Day if the conservative base is unmotivated.... You’ll need it.

They either turn out their base, or they turn off their base. All the folderol about "Congressional hypocrites" and "electing Democrats" aside, if the GOP hierarchy keeps thinking and acting like it's the base's fault instead of their fault (and the fault of their idiotic anti-conservative policies and proposals) that the GOP loses elections, they'll turn off their base for good, and all this discussion about whether the base turns out for the Republican ticket will be a fond dream.

377 posted on 02/06/2004 11:11:48 AM PST by Map Kernow ("I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Map Kernow
They either turn out their base, or they turn off their base. All the folderol about "Congressional hypocrites" and "electing Democrats" aside, if the GOP hierarchy keeps thinking and acting like it's the base's fault instead of their fault (and the fault of their idiotic anti-conservative policies and proposals) that the GOP loses elections, they'll turn off their base for good, and all this discussion about whether the base turns out for the Republican ticket will be a fond dream.

I don't see the Republican Party faring too well in your scenario. If shunning conservatives is what today's GOP is all about then they will lose more than just the conservative vote over time. There are millions of moderates in the party that indirectly benefit from the conservative influence in the party. Without that influence the GOP will move so far left it will alienate even the so-called moderates. At that point there will be virtually no difference between the parties.

389 posted on 02/06/2004 11:41:07 AM PST by WRhine
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