You see everything through a conservative lens. I don't.
It is the coalition that is important. Elections are won or lost nationally with them. Without one you lose every time, as there are not enough conservatives to win it. Never will be.
Locally, it's a different story, but what we are addressing today and on this thread is a national election.
Local grass root elections and even statewide elections are more controlled by the local factions. This is the way our system words, but when you delve into a national election, the political formulas change and some issues important to the locale do not resonate nationally, as immigration advocates on both sides have discovered to their collective chagrin.
I don't think very many people on advocacy forums like this one have the ability to separate these two political dynamics very well and they confuse the two or refuse to delineate the differences.
That is what I am trying to do here. Apparently not having a lot of success.....:-) I only wish that party members could keep these two areas of politics better separated. If you don't, then one faction tries to run the other's agenda and that will never work. It never has, and never will.
Disagree...of course...:)
In mentioning three issues, it would be helpful if those three issues were as effective in MO as they could be in NH.
And either way, if the Democrats simply hijack those three issues in people’s perceptions, they can simply triangulate and take the middle road where the Brook’s of the world seem to think elections are won.
Without that known difference, there is little reason to vote Republican when Democrats have a record of providing the same issues.
For example, how can Democrats be in the same ballpark on issues such as Taxes and National Security?