Thats what I’ve been arguing too. I know the things conservatives really push for here appeal very much to southern conservatives. But where I live some of the positions are guarunteed to mean candidates get slaughtered. I’ve warned too there is danger that the party could become a regional southern fringe party.
Where do you live?
. . . which, considering how recently the South was a region in which no Republican need apply, would certainly be ironic! But in reality, of course, the Red county/Blue county map of the US is predominantly red.The issue is sophistry vs. philosophy. To argue facts and logic, in a talk show format or via FreeRepublic postings, is to engage in philosophy. To argue from the assumption of superior wisdom and caring, via sound bites and "news" reports, is to engage in sophistry, And sophistry has been amazingly successful; an astonishing percentage of otherwise responsible-seeming adults want to believe it - and will hold their hands over their ears and sing if you threaten their worldview with facts and logic.
How else to explain Bush hatred, putatively based on the conceit that he caused Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans. Or the claim that American soldiers flushed a book down a toilet. Or the claim that Bush was responsible for the fact that soldiers who were being investigated by the Bush Administration had not adhered to protocols which did not apply to the people under their charge.