"There's a great deal of discontent in the Republican party and among the intellectual, the conservative intellectual elite that has powered the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan."
We are just the yahoos that don't matter. According to Carolyn it's the 'intellectual elite' that decides who gets elected.
Exactly the point I have tried to make for the last 4 elections, the Republican party needs the base for money and votes but they are not interested in what we think or want.
They have continually told the base “shut up and vote” and of course “keep sending that money”.
I would like to know who Carolyn considers the “conservative intellectual elite” and she had better not lump them with Ronald Reagan. He was certainly not an elitist ideologue. The reason he was so successful was because he connected so completely with ALL American voters!
I’m always skeptical when writers, from “the other party”, attempt analysis of the failures of the Republican Party. Their criticism never has the ring of honesty and their motives are always suspect.