“Seriously - you don’t win by telling your base to piss off.
Even the most stupid among us ought to be able to figure that out.
Why is it, however, that FisCons - who supposedly are all businessy and good at math and smart and all that stuff - are too stupid to figure out how to build and keep a winning coalition?”
Haley Barbour has been the chairman if the Republican Party and one of the most successful governors in the nation, and you are giving him advice? What arrogance.
A guy's past record is no protection against his present stupidity. And what he's advocating is stupidity.