[CaribouCrossing]

“What we NEED is a Republican Party based on SOLID CONSERVATIVE IDEAS....”

ROFL!!!!!! Yea, that worked real well. Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Biden, et al...thank you for your support. If only we had had a SOLID CONSERVATIVE we would have beat Obama?

Sigh, commonsense has left this planet, I swear........

[NinoFan]

Listen, noob, McCain was the big tent nominee. That didn’t work so well. Without Palin, he would have lost by even greater numbers. On the other hand, someone to McCain’s right, President Bush, managed to win two times, the second victory being especially important because half the country hated his guts.

[SoConPubbie]

“What we NEED is a Republican Party based on SOLID CONSERVATIVE IDEAS....”

ROFL!!!!!! Yea, that worked real well. Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Biden, et al...thank you for your support. If only we had had a SOLID CONSERVATIVE we would have beat Obama?

Sigh, commonsense has left this planet, I swear........

I am afraid you are the one lacking in common sense.

We just tried the tack to the left thingee with McAmnesty.

In case you are blind or hadn't noticed that did not work real well.

Trying to be more like the Democrats will NEVER win the GOP a seat at the table.

[grey_whiskers]

No, you've left the planet.

The only thing that made the race close at all was the addition of Palin to the ticket.

Nice try, though.

[hinckley buzzard]

A solid conservative could have done well. The problem is, we didn't have such a candidate available this year. Maybe you don't know what a "solid conservative" would look like. All our "conservatives" had serious and crippling shortcomings, most of which were due to political compromises which sabotaged their credibility.

We also had a dishonest incumbent who bastardized the "conservative" brand so badly that it could not be effectively used this year. That won't be a problem in the future however.

[TennesseeProfessor]

OK, let’s think about this for a bit. For the last few elections, the democrats have run far left-wing candidates who are openly contemptuous of Republicans, fight dirty to advance partisan ideas, and appeal to the left-wing extremist base. The Republicans for the last few elections have run “Big Tent” moderates who reach across the aisle, preach bi-partisanship and tell the base “we’re a tiny bit more conservative than the communist”.

Which strategy worked?

[CitizenUSA]

CaribouCrossing: “If only we had had a SOLID CONSERVATIVE we would have beat Obama?”

Maybe not. Maybe we would have lost. Oh, wait. WE DID LOSE...WITH A MODERATE/RINO/BIG TENT REPUBLICAN like the one you say we need.

What are you even doing on Free Republic? Seriously! This is a conservative forum.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings CC:

Just in case you're simply a newbie looking for discussion, as opposed to a troll...

In 2008, there was no 72 hour Republican blitz. Let me be clear about the straw which broke the camel's GOP's back: McCain's support for the pork ladened bailout package.

We were successfully countering the media's false image of Obama, one door knock at a time; until that point. Voters absolutely resented the manner which the earmarked bill was ram-rodded through the Senate, devoid of debate! The world most deliberate body? My a$$!

Add the House ceding their legislative Constitutional authority to the executive branch, to boot! And it was at that point undecideds became hostile towards GOP canvassers like me. Undecideds understood McCain's support for the bailout was not based upon conservative ideals. McCain was behaving like a Democrat. And each and every day Ohio voters absorbed a mass media created image of Obama.

Thanks to McCain-Feingold limitations, mass media now has unchecked power. Does anybody remember why we opposed McCain-Feingold?

Cheers,
OLA