How many Republicans are articulating this? They should be beating the Dims over the head every chance they get with that vote yesterday.
It’s a very hard message. You think people who are convinced things are bad will vote for someone who explains how wrong they are?
It can be done, but it has to be done with subtlety and a bit of subterfuge.
Which won’t work in this election, because conservatives are so tired of being lied to that they will not believe anybody who isn’t out hitting people over the head with a 2x4 saying what we want to hear.
In other words, because the Repblican party has burned us in the past, we won’t accept any wink-nod to our side, but that’s what would be needed to win the election.
The only other hope was to pick candidates who could clearly and enthusiastically articulate the conservative point of view, in a way that interested people.
The presidential primary showed that, if we have anybody like that, they aren’t running for office.
And as a case in point as to how hard it is for a conservative, three months ago Governor Jindal of Louisiana was the 2nd coming of Reagan. People wanted him on the ticket, people wanted him as President.
Now, he’s called names daily, called a RINO and a backstabber, called a sellout. His name is mud among conservatives.
We are a tough group to please.