Posted on 07/27/2012 6:41:57 PM PDT by NoLibZone
[[ “In the long run”, said Milton Friedman, and as an economist, Jew, celebrity, and a Nobel prize winner, he’d know better than most, “we’re all dead.” ]]
It was NOT Friedman who said that.
I believe it was John Maynard Keynes, the leftist.
Regardless of the quote attribution, Pat Buchanan is right, once again. No joy in that.
As Buchanan notes, Texas will “tip left” in a generation, and then topple over. After that, it’s all over — the Republicans will never be able to win the presidency again.
There’s a “possible solution”, although many here would oppose it. That would be for the “red states”, RIGHT NOW, to change the way electors are assigned in presidential elections, to the “Nebraska/Maine” method.
NE and ME don’t assign electors on a “winner-take-all” system, but rather by each congressional district.
Consider a state like Pennsylvania, which is considered a “battleground” state but which hasn’t voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1988. Under the current winner-take-all system, PA could be lost to the Republicans forever. But under a “congressional district” electoral vote system, PA would assign its electors roughly 50-50. In real-world terms, this would be a pickup of roughly 10 electoral votes in future elections for the GOP. 50% is better than nothin’....
And so it will go with a state like Texas. Again, under the current system, TX will “go blue” within a generation. If Texas were to change its electoral vote policy, we would lose -some- electoral votes TODAY, but would not be doomed to lose ALL of Texas’ votes in the future.
Just something to consider.
We can go the way we’re going, with results that are inevitable.
Or, we can literally “reconstruct the system” into a new framework that will give us more of a chance in the future.
I don’t expect that to happen.
But I can see what’s coming....
Again, Mr. Buchanan is dead right on this one.
Is that what you think you read?
and less welfare spending and a huge reduction in government bureaucracy
I think Milton Friedman was quoting John Maynard Keynes, who said it first.
“Rush said today the economy was growing at 9% in the great depression.. what is this?? “
HUh??
That is where the more jobs part, comes from.
We cannot keep control, unless jobs return.
Therefore, jobs are critical. Now.
The US has nukes, I guess those nukes are far more dangerous to America than Islamic radicals. Not that this has been shown in reality.
Reagan was not, but Buchanan’s own words tells you what he is. Maybe that is why he was in the white house only 2 years.
You’re just making stuff up. What happened to honesty and logic? You’ve turned all emo.
Probably true, and frankly, the GOP have no one but themselves to blame. By running away from conservatism, they’ve completely lost track of the narrative of America.
The economy is in the dump, unemployment is out of control, retirement accounts are decimated - seemingly no end in sight. People are terrified. Sadly, offering freedom, liberty and self-responsibility is a tough sell in that environment. A tipping-point number of Americans now want someone to take care of them, and Barrack Obama, the Dems and the much of the GOP are more than happy to oblige.
Conservatives are on their own. Arrange your asset-protection plan accordingly.
Hey EternalV who is your party putting up for pres this time around? Will he or she be in the debats?
here is a test...
how many times has Israel nuked us?
how many Islamic terror attacks have there been?
Latinos, African-Americans, immigrants and young people 18 to 25 pay no income taxes yet enjoy a panoply of government benefits.As long as the freebies keep coming in, they will keep voting the same parties who shall allow freebies to continue. What will happen one day when all freebies dry up ?
With the worst economy in 70 year? With the village idiot in the White House? A guy who after three and one half years in the White House and we still know less about that we do about Millard Filmore. (Thanks P.Boyles) And it is still 50/50 a hundred days out of the election? I see no way on God's green earth Romney can win. Better start stockpiling that arsenal, cause you are gonna need it.
I’m not interested in your foolishness.
There’s a “possible solution”, although many here would oppose it. That would be for the “red states”, RIGHT NOW, to change the way electors are assigned in presidential elections, to the “Nebraska/Maine” method.
NE and ME don’t assign electors on a “winner-take-all” system, but rather by each congressional district.
Obama sent a lot people here to Nebraska back in January & they are still here. I understand there are a lot of lawyers, but not sure what they are doing, besides the obvious; looking for a way to cheat.
Me.
I’m debating three times in the next couple of weeks.
If Romney moves the GOP right and back to fiscal conservatism, the GOP has a chance to stay. If Romney loses because GOP moderates refuse to fight for the nation or because the GOP stuck in a limp moderate, the GOP will die - and the Tea Party or similar, true conservative party, will rise.
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