Posted on 11/08/2006 2:27:12 PM PST by quidnunc
republicans are only conservative during elections tho and after enough time people notice such things
All the Democrats who won house seats ran to the right of conservatives!
ironic is'nt it?
they took the positions the republicans had abandonded and won..who'd've' thunk it
It is ironic. Republicans would have not had any problems during this cycle, had they been conservative. Instead, they are out there trying to suck up the Hispanic vote and the moderates. Even legal Hispanics want the damn border shut down! It is very easy to see why we lost.
easy for you and i perhaps but politicians live in a different world..rose colored glasses doesen't even begin to describe it
I could not agree more. Libertarians have no shot at winning anything, including dog catcher. After all, they'd probably smoke the leashes and declare it a right.
I take solace in the fact that though they voted AGAINST Republicans, they are going to get far worse at the hands of the democrats. They thought the Republicans were bad, wait till Pelosi gets her agenda rolling.
Nice liberal answer there... I suppose that you feel that if a product doesn't meet a customer's needs and he goes elsewhere, then he's horrible and it's his fault if the business goes under.
BTW, I know Libertarians who would vote Dem if there were no L party.
Nice try, but libertarians are more conservative than liberal.
And the GOP nervous breakdown continues apace.
They'll lay blame anywhere, but where it should be laid. Losers always do. Blackbird.
Is this thread for real? Is it a twisted joke?
Good God, it's like reading the DUmmie Funnies.
aLL Our ElecTION ProbleMs Belong to us!
It's this, entitlement vote, that is why the GOP got it's hat handed to them. Pure hubris. Will they learn? Blackbird.
Don't smoke a joint, but feel free to abort at will. Pathetic priorities. Blackbird.
Let me poke a hole in that theory. I am (l)ibertarian to my core, but HAVE voted GOP for 30 years now. So much for that one. Blackbird.
Well, Blackbird, there are exceptions to every rule. I know a lot of Libertarians. The number of possible Republican voters among them is small.
This whole libertarian thing today is a reason why changes need to be made to voting laws. My vote terminates on the winner or the loser. There is a perverse incentive built into the system not to vote for the candidate I prefer and an incentive to vote for the lesser of two evils both of whom I'd rather not vote for at all.
Votes should cascade down a ranking of candidates. For example, say there are constitution party, libertarian party, democrat, republican, socialist---candidates, whose names coincidentally are initialed, C, L, D, R, S, respectively. I want to determine the ranking of the successful candidate who gets my vote. So I rank accordingly. C, L, R. Democrat, socialist, candidates will not get my vote under any condition. If Democrat wins he wins with someone else's vote. If the C, L, R, candidate wins, it is because one of them got my vote. I rank C #1, L #2, R #3.
The votes for C get counted and he loses, my vote doesn't die, it gets inherited by #2: L. He wins and it stops there or he loses and #3: R inherits my vote.
This system would provide incentive to vote for the person you want as #1 without worry that you are throwing your vote away or are taking votes away from the lesser of two evils the only two viable candidates. This system would grant viability to 3rd party candidates who deserve to have some without robbing viability from the two who seem to monopolize it. It would equalize their chances in the fairest possible way. We should be able to implement this system without undermining the electoral college system. Of course when I refer to voting for C, L, or R, I am talking about the delegates.
Apparently Perot taught us NOTHING!
It's just a little temper tantrum.
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