If you think mayor Davis is a rino, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Davis is about as conservative as you can get, I know him personally. He would have been a great addition to the House.
To blame “rinos” on this loss is totally absurd. The country is pissed at Republicans for a multitude of reasons, some relating to rino politics (spending, immigration) some not (Iraq). The economy is also a big factor.
Wake up. The MS loss had nothing to do with RINO politics. It had everything to do with Mississippians wanting a generic “change” of brands.
Uh oh.
I live in Southaven. Davis is a good mayor.
That's why McCain still has some chance to win the Presidency, because he has been so effective in distancing himself from the tainted GOP brand.
For the rest of the party, a wholesale purge is coming.
I don’t understand why people are mad at the economy. Unemployment isn’t high, taxes are down, and the stock market is holding it’s own - the only big problem I see is the price of gas and who do we have to blame for that? The Democrats.
This is not good. Hopefully Davis sticks around for the rebound.
The RINO begins at the top of the GOP ticket. There is where the perception begins.
“To blame rinos on this loss is totally absurd.”
I don’t know. I think I would have to be very convinced the (R) was a true conservative before I’d vote for him: Someone that was going to not only fight to kill the Rats but someone was going to fight to kill the RINO’s. Any, I mean, any hint that he harbored a “spirit of bipartisanship” or “compassionate conservatism” would cause me to stay home.
That’s because of the RINO’s. I’m not consenting to the rule of someone who A) Is basically a Rat or B) is going up there just for a paycheck.
No, it has everything to do with RINO politics, because that is what the GOP has increasingly allowed itself to be cast as. The GOP no longer has a credible name when it comes to keeping taxes down, opposing spending, fighting big government, and is even losing its reputation as the socially conservative party, which will do nothing to bring on board conservative Reagan Democrats.
Davis may have been as conservative as you can get, but the problem is, Childers was pretty conservative, too, and Davis was stuck with a label that now says "Hey, we're soft on taxes, spending, government intrusion! Vote for us because we're Democrat lite!". If you offer people Democrat lite, they'll just go for the real thing, instead.
You are right.
This may, or may not be the reason and it is dangerous to accept that premise at face value without facts to back it up.
This reason does not hold water. Why would anyone with a half a brain think that a DEmocrat is going to spend less or be tougher on illegal immigration or do a better job with the economy?
They can't believe that because that same person with half a brain knows that is wrong.
There has to be much more to it than this reason that keeps getting stated over and over.
I believe the herd mentality has a lot to do with it and these same voters are brain dead and falsely believe the hype they hear on the MSM. We must be better at educating the public.
We need to do more promoting of the party platform. This would accomplish two things. It will create true Republican converts and also encourage candidates and elected lawmakers to toe the party line more closely.
Ditto. Add free trade to the mess. Small mill towns losing their factories to cheap overseas labor does not help.
Sure it does. Millions of us worked for years to bring about Republican control of the gov't, only to have the party turn into a bunch of RINO's and increase spending faster than the dems ever did. Now, what is there to work for? What is the dream? We've lost our momentum, and the people to blame are W, Hastert, Frist, and the rest of the bunch who called themselves conservative but in reality just wanted power.
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?
This was a serious loss. We are taking water everywhere.