Your thinking is the reason we lost. Suburban voters, especially women, are turned off by social conservatives' overreaching. You seem to think we lost because we weren't conservative enough.
Santorum was about as straight conservative as you can get. He campaigned as a strict conservative, refusing to give an inch on any issue. He spent $25 million. He got 40 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, in the same state Specter gets 65 percent of the vote.
You can't so disillusion yourself with your hopes that it clouds your good political judgment. The tides have shifted nationally the way they shifted in California a two decades ago. The demographics clearly show that Independents strongly lean Dimwit, that Republican registration is in decline, and that even VA is in play for the other guys.
We absolutely must have the courage and intelligence to adapt or we turn into dinosaurs. That's what is at stake here.
Dear massadvj,
When conservatives fail to govern well, the people don't vote for them. When conservatives fail to even attempt to govern as conservatives, they lose credibility as conservatives.
Mr. Santorum may have tried to campaign as a "straight conservative," but unfortunately, his record had become mixed, at best. Part of the problem was the leadership position he'd taken on causing him to appear increasingly like a RINO.
People often vote for a choice rather than an echo.
I think that the difference between you and me is illuminated from your homepage.
"I believe the hope that was America, the hope for a land of freedom and individual liberty, is lost forever."
You've given in to despair.
I haven't.
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