A change of brands because of RINOism. The Republican brand has been tarnished because moderates have run the party into the ground. Nominating McCain is the last straw. He is suppressing voter turnout. The base is demoralized. Are the Republicans so stupid as to not know how disliked McCain is by average Americans?
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McCain will win the district Davis just lost by 15 points come the general. Mark it down. There are many reasons for this...
Hey, I want a more conservative party. I just don’t think the country is ready to vote for what it percieves as anything Republican (lite, rino, conservative or otherwise) at the present moment. John McCain has a shot, not because of his policies (which are rino) but because he is seen as a maverick...something outside the brand....
I agree that the party needs to soul search. It needs to go back to its optimism in the individual. Not the visceral anti-government finger pointing (or the touchy-feely social-program-sponsoring we see under W). It needs a platform that celebrates the greatness of the American people as individuals—appeal to our greatness, our affinity for the liberty to do what we want privately, not under the yoke of a nanny state or over-regulated markets.
I am afraid we may need several years of Democrat beuracracy/free-handout-creation/collectivism, to remind voters why Reagan won 49 out of 50 states.