The shock is that it took so long for this sort of post-election loss analysis to materialize. It was no surprise that liberal democrats, disguised as “centrist republicans,” would conclude from the election that McCain, and the host of other GOP candidates, lost because they WEREN’T LIBERAL ENOUGH!
This was the same rationalization for the loss of both houses of Congress in 2006. But, of course, in the empirical world, if the conclusion were accurate, then McCain’s campaign, and those of the other at-risk republicans, would have been more successful for having applied the lesson in going further left. However, how to explain the failure?
Idiots like this author can continue repeating the “centrist” mantra after every election loss, the last of which I’m sure we haven’t seen for such amorphous platforms. Just remember that the only reason McCain got the votes he did was Sarah Palin. I was ready to write in Angela Davis/Bob Avakian rather than vote for John; then he selected Sarah and things changed.
The “centrist republican party” needs conservatives about as much as conservatives need this party of Chaffee, Snowe, Collins, Specter, Graham, Pawlenty, Hagel, Lugar, Voinovich et al. Time for a divorce and a third party. Let ‘em eat centrist cake with the libs.
“The shock is that it took so long for this sort of post-election loss analysis to materialize. It was no surprise that liberal democrats, disguised as “centrist republicans,” would conclude from the election that McCain, and the host of other GOP candidates, lost because they WEREN’T LIBERAL ENOUGH!”
First of all, this is the media meme that happens in every election cycle. They keep declaring conservatism dead.
Second, a lot of it comes from outside the GOP not in it.
Third, the best way to dispute this is to come up with a BETTER answer.
so what SHOULD Republicans and conservatives do to win back the people’s trust?
That is the question.
“The shock is that it took so long for this sort of post-election loss analysis to materialize. It was no surprise that liberal democrats, disguised as “centrist republicans,” would conclude from the election that McCain, and the host of other GOP candidates, lost because they WEREN’T LIBERAL ENOUGH!”
First of all, this is the media meme that happens in every election cycle. They keep declaring conservatism dead.
Second, a lot of it comes from outside the GOP not in it.
Third, the best way to dispute this is to come up with a BETTER answer.
so what SHOULD Republicans and conservatives do to win back the people’s trust?
That is the question.