How is that insulting to talk radio? He's just stating a fact! Conservatives can't win elections unless their base of support is larger than talk radio audiences. That's simple math! Do you honestly disagree with it?
His context was clearly that we must “reach out” to moderates instead of boldly explaining who conservatism is right and liberalism is wrong.
I watched the speach, and that's not what he said. His point was simply that we have to get moderates on board with entitlement reform, or else we will never get it passed.
Again, that is just a reality. How can you possibly disagree with it?
Are you really so obtuse to think that any conservative policy goals can be acheived without winning over some moderates?
I heard it and it was very McCainish.
Well, if reaching out to moderates or trying to expand the base is McCainish, then Reagan was McCainish.
I don’t buy for a second that Daniels was talking “simple math.” Neither does the main stream media for the record.
It was not Reaganesque at all. Reagan never reached the moderates by tamping down his conservatism or by telling conservatives they must do so and so. He attracted moderates by convincing them to come over to his side. That is not how I read Daniels.
It’s not how Rush reads him, not how Sean reads him, or how Laura reads him. Maybe you have insight they don’t. Or maybe you have kool aid they don’t.