I agree. But let’s consider the possibility, for the sake of argument, that we are wrong. That a Reagan conservative, one who is well-versed and intelligent, can’t actually win.
Well, we should run him anyway.
Obviously, we can’t do any worse. We can’t do worse than Bush (92), Dole, McCain and Romney. Stating the obvious here.
But if Phil Gramm had lost in 1996 instead of Dole, what sort of trajectory would we have been on? Perhaps a completely different one.
And the final point. When it all comes crashing down, as a matter of fact, not opinion or partisanship, but as a matter of FACT....which policies will lead us out of Greece-like economy?
Only the Reagan / Thatcher policies of economic growth, entitlement shrinkage, freedom, and cutting discretionary spending.
If we don’t ever articulate those, even in a losing campaign (such as my hypothetical Phil Gramm campaign of 1996), then how do we ever start the push back? What resources will we fall back on, if we never even publicly articulate our agenda?
It seems that win or lose, we have a duty to speak the truth because if America is to survive, only the truth will allow us that.
And to paraphrase the late great Andrew Breitbart:
“...the conservatives and republicans need to understand and use the new media avenues of communication now available, to get their message out. If they don’t then their message will never get to a large sector of the american people. The old methods are no longer effective and in ways outdated and useless.
And like it or hate it Pop Culture is one method in today’s instant gratification fast food got to have, see, hear it now world. Where style trumps substance unless the substance is packaged with the right “style” to reach its audience.”
Needless to say the RINO’s and DC GOP ignored him.