So in the 2008 Presidential election, you didn’t vote? Or did you vote for a 3rd party, or Obama?
I made the mistake of voting for McCain. And that was a hold my nose and pull the trigger vote. If it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin, I would have written in Fred Thompson.
In the 2008 election, there were those who didn’t vote, there were those who voted for Obama to ‘send a message’, there were those who voted third party to ‘send a message’, and there were those who voted for the MILF.
I thought ‘sending messages’ went out of vogue in the Vietnam War as sending messages doesn’t and didn’t work.
Proof of that is the GOP support for people like Scuzzyflava in NY.
And the GOP leadership bluntly stating that they need to lean leftwards to appeal to the voters.
When people vote to ‘send messages’, what the leadership sees is support for leftwards causes.
On the other hand, at this stage, voting for the candidates they put forwards ALSO shows support for leftwards leaning causes.
Due to years of ‘sending messages’.
And some people won’t be happy no matter what candidate is picked.
So the leadership in the parrty sees support for leftwards causes no matter what.
This has to change.
And no, I’m no strategist, I have no idea how ot fix it other than by tarring and feathering the leadership util they figure it out.
But we’re civilised these days, we can’t do that sort of thing.
I know, I’ve seen the images on the nightly news showing me how civilised we are.