Posted on 03/10/2009 1:38:04 PM PDT by GOPGuide
That's why McCain is president today!
;)
What the hell is wrong with just defining your core beliefs: low taxes, small central government, muscular defense and individual liberty, then let the electorate come to you in droves.
Those principles will win every time - why the need to go upsacle, downscale or sideways? Why the need to pander to ethnic or socio-economic groups? Conservatism appeals to ALL right-thinking people (no pun intended) that want only to be free to reap the fruits of their own labor.
Not interested in moving to the left.
We heard all this nonsense during the runup to the 2008 elections by various factions trying to push their favorite RINO be it Rudy, Mitt, The Huckster, or McAmnesty.
None were worthy enough to tie the shoelaces of Ronald Reagan and all they were pushing was the lie that they were conservative and that we should compromise our values and principles because we had to move to the center.
We tried that and it failed miserably.
How about we just stick to our conservative principles this time, OK?
Seems like they’re not going to listen until us ‘regular downscale folk’ start showing up on their doorsteps with pitchforks.
It's NOT ABOUT YOUNG OR OLD. It's about IDEAS.
Philosophically bankrupt, intellectually ignorant, individuals and collectives ALWAYS trend toward socialism.
Truth is not negotiable.
This might be worth a try if the bar separating Liberals from conservatives wasn’t stiff as a board.we move to the center,they move equally farther to the left.The liberals definition of compromise is, you come all the way over to us and we all can dance around the maypole.In my life they have never budged until you gave them something worth more than they were giving up.Holy Charlie brown football kicking Christ,how many times do we fall for this?
Sadly, this is nothing new for National Review. In the late 50’s they ran a book review of “Atlas Shrugs” that claimed the theme of the book was “To the gas chambers go.”
Sure they are. They're called gullible "moderates." Or as i like to call them, idiots.
The demographics look excellent for the Rats.
Single women, especially single women with children, wanting Uncle Sugar to bring home their bacon, is a huge voting bloc.
There is no way the Pubbies are going to be able to out-pander the Rats when it comes to appealing to racial blocs — the Rats are masters of dividing people by race and demonizing whites as supposedly trying to hold the other races down.
And amnesty will bring in tens of millions of poorly-educated voters who strongly supported socialists in their home country.
Since the Rat base is a cobbled-together collection of grievance groups looking to the government for sustenance, I have to wonder whether the continued economic decline of the private sector as a result of Obama’s policies will even have a significant negative effect on the loyalty of the Rat coalition.
This is the sort of thing that keeps me from subscribing to WFB’s magazine.
I’ve been Republican all my life, with the exception of an experiment in Democratic registration in the off years to see if it would get me any better response from letters to my Democratic Congressional delegation. (it doesn’t - they ignore people in their own party too). Parents were conservative Republicans before it was cool. They worked on Goldwater’s campaign like sled dogs, and even tho Goldwater lost, that was the genesis of the Reagan revolution.
And here, we have these NR twinks coming out with this trope that Republicans live in gated communities. Well, I think this shows who they are.
It is not, however, who we are - as if all those NASCAR fans live in gated communities. Hunters and gun-toting rabble live in gated communities — riiiight. All us folks in the rural west — we have hand-hammered wrought iron over the ranch gate, don’t you know, and polo ponies instead of quarter horses. And all of us who are small businessmen and women — why, we’re just in the business of sitting up on the veranda, sippin’ mint julips while telling the hired help to “speed things up a bit there...”
Who ARE these morons within the GOP who think this crap? Well, now we know: they’re the same sort of twinks that brought us the Obama campaign: Ivy-league liberal arts majors without a clue or a real, productive job.
I’ve just about had my fill of this. If these silk pantywaists want to believe these ridiculous tropes, they can do it without me or my capital. They can go off and sip their VSOP and huff on their Cuban cigars while telling their wife to “please get off the pool boy!” from South America.
This crap makes me so furious... to hell with NR and their pack of Ivy-league blueblood pecksniffs and New York papists.
Battleground Poll question D3:
60% of Americans reliably self-identify as “very conservative” or “somewhat conservative.”
35% are “somewhat liberal” or “very liberal.”
Question for David Frum: “Which number do you think is larger?”
Careful David: this one’s tricky...
There are changes in the air with the Republicans, hopefully for the better. However, change is a word associated with the Head Marxist In Charge (HMIC) BHO, so we can’t exactly coopt it.
One way for everyone to get what they want would be to dissolve the U.S., but is that feasible? Or desirable?
If the nation did dissolve into four or more regions it would lead to more voter satisfaction. Agree or not? The regions could make a pact with one another as if they were NATO and the military could remain unchanged.
Other than that, I sadly see leftist Democratic rule ad infinitum... And that’s a long time.
Move to the center? What center?
I hate this kind of thinking. You don’t run polls to find out what you think. You don’t choose your principles based on demographics.
The first step is this: you have to know what you believe. What are your principles? Do you have any? What is for you nonnegotiable? Lets start there.
If your nonnegotiable principles put you in the minority, then you have a lot of work to do, selling, persuading, teaching. Getting elected is not an end in itself; if you have no principles then what is the point? There are plenty of politicians in office already with no principles to direct them.
Your election campaign strategy should not be to hide your views hoping you’ll get elected by mistake, or by accident. It has to be that you will teach and persuade and convince people that your views are right, and in that way build a durable majority. And in that way accomplish something that matters.
There are too many people on our side of the line who see politics as a contest between two teams, rather than a war of ideas. They are looking for the trick play that will get the quarterback across the line. They’ve lost hope of ever really convincing anyone of anything.
Most of the people in the gated communities - and most of the wealthy, in fact - are Dems.
Maybe if the GOP gives them an alternative, they’ll take it. So what we actually have to do is attract the gated community, but that won’t happen if we offer them exactly what the Dems offer.
I think many of them are going to get really burned on that squirrelly little radical they’ve elected, and I think they will be looking for an alternative.
Did you read this article before posting it? It’s neutral.
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