Well now gee! If Bob Shrum sez so, it MUST be true...
Has Bob Schrum ever run a success campaign ? - no.
It’s dead, Jim. And, I say that as one who has been an activist and GOPer for over 35 years.
I remember these guys saying the same thing in 1993.
The thing is, he will still receive a paycheck when he is wrong.
The a$$hole is right. We are irrelevant at present, as presently constituted. However — if this Texas thing gets some wings, we could have a huge red-state impact; one like we’ve not seen since the Civil War.
Who is Bob Shrum? Is he the token “conservative” for someone?
He may be right, only because the percentage of people who pay no income tax is pretty large anymore. They don’t vote conservative.
Racial politics, illegals, vote fraud, and wealth transfers make up a formidable coalition. It will take Divine providence and a lot of hard work to overcome it.
This is encouraging news.
Bob Shrum is a professional spinmeister. Please. The generic party ballot is showing Republicans equal or better than Democrats. You better believe they are quakingin their boots. This is a set up to repeat 1994. Of course, they have to say it is not the same. I think it will be even bigger, given the public protests.
It may be the better that we’ve moved beyond simple ‘anti-taxism’: we’re back to a Reaganesque small government and liberty agenda—and that, I believe, is a winner.
(The Republicans’ problem, of course, is that so few of their elected officials adhere to such Reaganesque principles...)
Well, since taxpayers are no longer a majority, he might have a point...
Either he and his fellow socialists are attempting to downplay the growing movement because they are worried and are desperate or they are underestimating the growing movement. Hopefully it’s the latter so they will continue to let their guard down.
Why would we take any advice from the Shroom?
There will reach a point where college grads can't find a job, and then they will blame the government, too.
-PJ
If Shrum predicts as well as he runs presidential campaigns...
But I think those who believe some great realignment took place with the 2008 election are mistaken. Obama won because he was black. The white guilt vote is what really gave him a winning margin, and some additional participation by blacks. Many whites felt it said something good about themselves and about their country if the first black president was elected.
The white guilt vote was probably good for one election, and we'll learn in next two to four years whether any significant realignment of coalitions and groups has actually taken place.
I believe Bush's unpopularity, opposition to Iraq, and Bush and Rove's trying to push amnesty time and again, wild spending, and other factors just demoralized and weakened the Republican party, and also caused the loss of some independent voters.
That, and the white guilt factor are not the ingredients of a long-term shift in political alignments.
Demographics are destiny. The people who consume and take from government largess are on the verge of outnumbering those forced to pay into the system. Once that occurs, the conservative movement (at least on fiscal issues) will cease to be a political force with any power. Our only option will be to "Shrug" and refuse to work and continue to feed the welfare state engine.
Let’s show this bum he’s wrong.