[Mr. Silverback]

I wasn't arguing with you, so much as agreeing with you from another direction.

The GOP should remain proud social conservatives, but Republicans are going to have to start running on something else.

You see, that's the problem. They have been running on fiscal conservatism and wealth creation, but no one believes them anymore after a spending spree that goes back deep into the Clinton Administration.

[counterpunch]

You see, that's the problem. They have been running on fiscal conservatism and wealth creation

But they really haven't been.
They've paid the ideas a little bit of lipservice, but they haven't explained why it is important. They haven't raised warnings that we are bankrupting our nation. They haven't explained what bankruptcy means for funding all these programs the people demand, that loading up on every little spending project on a whim means eventually there will be no money available to the programs that actually matter. they haven't explained that wealth comes from the people to the government, not the other way around. A lot was made about 0bama being a socialist who is weak on defense, but no one ever laid out what the real world results this will be with him in the White House. Republicans seemed to just go through the motions, trot out Ayers, trot out Wright, trot out the tax boogeyman. But what does any of this mean to people in their everyday lives? The GOP failed to adequately warn Americans of what they have in store for them over the next 4 years.