This is just a tired rehash of the same dogma that gave us McCain as our candidate in 2008.
No, Obama did not win by "building a coalition of ascendancy" he built a empire of lies. "Tax cuts for 95% of Americans, And end to our dependence on Foreign Oil, a Post racial President...etc etc etc". He simply lied his way to power then went to DC and ruled exactly the way those of us paying attention KNEW he would. He ran right and is ruling Left.
Now the scrammed" Independents" are waking up to the fact that he is exactly what we told them he would be and they are deserting him. His polling numbers are in free fall with no indication that he is smart enough to change course to arrest that fall.
Its not really “move toward the center” as much as it is “re-move head from hindquarters”.From the article:
“In this respect, Republicans would be well advised here to borrow a page from David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith in their revival of the British Conservative party. These leaders have emphasized a range of issues that directly influence the quality of life in community: homelessness, addiction, prison reform, family breakdown, long-term unemployment. As yet, Republicans have no comparable agenda to address such issues of social justice from a conservative perspective. This, as we noted earlier, may be partly owing to the curse of previous success, which has allowed the issue of social justice to be seized by Democrats. But, to invoke a historical reference, the GOP must be the party of both Adam Smiths: the free-market champion who wrote The Wealth of Nations and the moral philosopher who authored The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Like Smith in the 18th century, the party of the 21st century must uphold the paramount virtues of freedom and the “invisible hand” and the no less paramount truth that the free life is nurtured and sustained in community.
Running through this analysis is, as well, an attitude toward government. No party founded by Abraham Lincoln—a president who advocated internal improvements while being simultaneously prepared to maintain the Union by force—can consider itself simply and purely antigovernment. Nor does such an attitude befit a conservatism inspired by the writings of the same Edmund Burke who averred that God, “Who gave our nature to be perfected by our virtue, willed also the necessary means of its perfection—He willed therefore the state.” (By “perfection,” Burke meant human improvement.) Skepticism toward government, however warranted and indeed necessary, is not the same as outright hostility.”
The GOP could probably accomplish both of these tasks by giving the heave-ho to the anarcho-capitalists in its ranks. These guys are friggin idiots and their simplistic little solutions do nothing except prohibit the GOP from doing anything if it does return to power.
parsy, who has been saying this for the last 11 years.
BHO ran on platitudes and one liners and sweet sounding rhetoric that appealed to a war weary, GOP weary public.
Now that people see what he actually wants to do, they are rejecting it.
Many of us knew who this guy was in 2008 but you were not going to talk logic to an emotionally driven electorate.
It's like a dad who has a teen daughter with a creep for a boyfriend. he can tell her what a bum her boyfriend is because he can see because he isn't emotionally invested in the relationship. Eventually, the daughter sees for herself that yes, dad was right. This guy is a creep.