A Growing GOP Problem in Ohio

That’s pretty mangled...

The GOP squandered opportunities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Federal Congress by basically performing as cravenly as the corrupt Dems they replaced. Basically could’nt get their noses up out of the trough long enough to understand why and how they were placed at the levers of power by the electorate. the Dems in general, “do corruption” more brazenly and effectively than Pubbies...basically more folks expect better of the Pubbies and come down on them twice as hard when they fail the standard.

Greetings Mr. Jeeves:

Rudy is the only Republican who can win most of the battleground states in 2008.

Unless you have polling data to cite for discussion, don't fool yourself about Ohio my FRiend. RINO's have PO'ed the Ohio GOP base.

For example, RINOs screwed up the appointment of conservative justices, and that cost Mike DeWine his Senate seat.

If you don't excite the canvasing GOP base, you'll lose to the Democrat annointed by the liberal mass media. While Mayor Guiliani is admirable, I wouldn't pound doors for him.

Cheers,
OLA

I never said that I was going to support Guiliani. I never mentioned his name. All I am saying is that if the Republicans nominate a candidate who is not a true conservative, it would be stupid to withhold our votes from him because by doing so, we would help elect the Democrat candidate. And the Democrat candidate is going to be a true leftist. Voting for a 3rd party candidate or staying home on election day is not going to “teach” the Republican Party a “lesson.” It is only going to help elect Democrats. In fact, the only “lesson” that Republicans have drawn from this past election is that the country has supposedly moved leftward, that it doesn’t support the war, that it doesn’t want to take a firm stance on immigration and security, that it doesn’t believe in limiting government.

You are taking the right approach in trying to pull the Republican Party to the right on the precint level. We can’t expect to change the party at the top unless we have changed it at the grassroots level.

That’s exactly what Brown ran on.

And what have we got here? More job losses. Maybe someone can convince the sheeple that government either attracts jobs or looses jobs with tax policy. The government does not CREATE jobs.

“If” he wins the South...is a pretty darn big “IF!” Do you really think a pro-abort, pro-gay, anti-gun liberal from NY is going to win in the South? I bet he doesn’t carry even a single Southern state, besides maybe Florida.”

Let me put it this way—do you think the South would vote for Hillary or Obama over Rudy? They are even more liberal than Rudy. And while I agree the Italian-American vote is not monolithic, it is significant in key states. Perhaps it is just coincidence that Rudy leads in the same states in which Italian-Americans are concentrated in the population—in places like NJ, CT, MN, OH, PA, CA, FL and NJ—but I doubt it. If a Polish-American were to run, he would garner the Polish-American vote just as surely as Joe Lieberman won the Jewish vote and Michael Dukakis got the Greek-American vote and JFK got the Irish-American vote. Ethnic politics has been around a very long time—and it makes a difference in a lot of places. The very fact that some Americans are still described in hyphenated terms would indicate a cultural distinctiveness that is real. And while it may be true the Reagan Democrats were conservative on social issues, they were also big on law-and-order and national security issues as well—areas in which Rudy excels.

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