Posted on 07/25/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT by Fizziks
There are conservatives in every demographic group. Here’s an idea - why don’t we have a party that has conservative values and principles - AND - actually sticks to them? Instead of trying to pander to each individual group - why not just try to appeal to the conservatives in EACH group?
So then don’t be nice anymore. They’re lucky they’ve never called me for a donation.
Well there are stories that Chris Dodd could lose as well as Barb Boxer. The public including more educated minority groupos will not want to pay high taxes or be unemployed. The problem I see is things will turn to crap and remain bad for so long that people will forget what it was like when it was good.
How do we deal with the numbers game? More illegals, more immigrants, more minorities ... some of them can vote.
They want a government that gives them stuff.
How do we break the numbers game?
Zogby hasn't a clue what he's talking about. I didn't see the dems putting forward alternative policies when Bush was president, they just criticized and hoped to draw in anyone dissatisfied with W - the details of what they would do instead were always fuzzy. There's a certain amount of ease that comes from being an opposition party, since among a hodgepodge of political affiliations it's usually easier to organize masses of people in opposition to something than it is to organize in support of something else.
“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”
The GOP is already dead, they just don’t it yet. Nothing they can do at this point in time can stop the Democrats from Socializing this country except wait until this country has had enough of it.
It has to be voted in first before it can be tried.
You can’t.
The creative class being artsy fartsy people, independent filmakers and D-list actors?
As far as I’m concerned the GOP IS going to be in deep trouble. They do not seem to have the leadership capacity to (a) pull in the RINOs or expel them and (b) to carry off a meaningful message to the people. The “conservative party” is being led by people like us at the resistance of the GOP — not all but enough.
Righto. Give the middle a choice..Communism or Capitalism. This 3rd way BS is what got us in this mess. The commielib media must be bypassed and made to look as foolish as they really are.
“How do we break the numbers game?”
Legitimate ‘divide and conquer’ politics. Blacks and Latinos are not a monolithic group. Sooner or later those who work hard are going to have their fill of those who don’t. At that point they will switch their allegiances. It is important to keep pointing out to middle class minorities that they are getting fleeced too.
So we’re doomed.
We might be.
Move to Texas. It's as close to Galt's Gulch as you're going to get.
We're as self-sufficient as any state in the country: natural resources, a part-time legislature, CCW, no state income tax, good schools, and several large military installations.
“So we’re doomed.”
What about all the recent polling that shows a surge in people identifying themselves as ‘conservative’?
Well then he should stick to opinion polling and leave the political analysis to those who are qualified.
My opinion. 2010 will look like 1994 all over again and Zogby / democrats are scared to death. As they should be.
Most of us have been in the political minority all our lives...and never once considered changing our principles after we did a head count.
Being in the “middle” never had an appeal for me anyhow.
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