It’s really simple. If you do well, you keep running things. If you don’t, you need to leave. Many don’t want to leave the gravy train.
Doing that is in no way libertarian. It is just declaring that tiny fraction of the population to be more important than everyone else.
Rush has said that several times recently and now his brother. And Rush has expanded it by saying that Romney actually pulled a few million independent voters from Obama, but the loss of conservative votes more than offset that.
I think this might well be correct, but have not seen any polls or other evidence to support it. Has anyone seen an analysis with supporting data that arrives at these conclusions?
No question---Obamatons stole the 2012 election. Every swing state showed RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD but nobody stood up to challenge it.......even as Repubs dominated state Secy's of state who have jurisdiction over voter fraud.
As FReeper hinckley buzzard insightfully posted: "They overlooked Dem's secret weapon: "early voting" scams in those crucial key states---they knew every voter in their precincts-- and had a plan to get every one to the polls. Days of early voting and extended hours enabled them to herd their masses into busses and take load after load bodily to the polls---how they got 100% votes in black precincts.
The stupid GOP had no such organization, and, apparently, had not even the faintest idea of what the DNC had been doing the last four years. The downtrodden post-2012 GOP seems more interested in running people off than in GOTV efforts.
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Dems are still giving thanks over at The Church Of Whatever Works For Me that Romney was so stupid and easily duped.....a dumbo RINO who was used to having his lunch money taken by the schoolyard bully.
CASE IN POINT Candidate Ohaha bragged he was so-o-o popular he was being showered with campaign contributions from avid supporters----and had the first billion dollar campaign in US history.
Did Romney issue a statement asking the FEC where all the Ohaha reports were----as required by law----WRT where Ohaha spent all that money? Did Romney ever publicly dress down "billion-dollar Obama" on O's later statements about his need to borrow money for his campaign?
CONCLUSION (with a hat tip to Shakespeare) "Stupidity, thy name is Republican."
The paid off McCain wing is problem that needs to be fixed.
EXCERPT Once again, those “moderates” of the Republican Party inner circle are exhibiting a determination to obliterate any lingering shred of credibility left in the GOP.
Appearing in the shadow of a stellar CPAC 2013 gathering this past weekend, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus outlined the results of an introspective analysis of the party’s lapses during the November 2012 elections. Predictably, the advice from the self-anointed “experts” is to move the party further left in order to persuade its opponents of a general willingness among the party hierarchy to abandon principle in a futile quest for votes.
The venue from which Priebus issued his statement, the National Press Club, reflects the Beltway Insider environment that has wrought nothing but a string of political disasters for Republicans in recent decades.
Yet, among those who believe that Washington has all the answers, and that the American Heartland is made up of unsophisticated rubes, the reality on Main Street is of little consequence.
“Experts,” the very same experts who gave us Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney as the “most electable” candidates, now assert that the core principles which have defined the Republican Party are the root cause for its current unpopularity in the public eye.
Thus, the marginalization of those principles is the best course for the party as it seeks to resurrect its image in the public eye. Go figure. --snip--
Lincoln got elected due to party division watering down the supposed shoo-in.
Let’s get it on.
Look, David, it doesn't get any simpler than this: "Winning" the social issues, or immigration, or neocon imperialism all require more big government power and more big government guns.
Enough is enough.
The only unity platform that a plurality of conservatives, libertarians, Evangelicals, Catholics, white, Black, Hispanics, older and younger voters can possibly agree ever on is the limitation of government power over the individual. There is no legitimate expansion of government possible from this near-tyrannical low point in American history - only a steep and serious reduction in Federal police power and regulation can get us back to a baseline where we could possibly again begin to build a free and prosperous society.
So every time we "libertarian-oriented" types hear conservatives calling for stronger government or new 2,000 page laws to attack some symptom or other, we yell out "Stop! Fix the root problem instead!" If we don't - if we can't - the Left rushes in to take advantage of the new law in ways their opponents hadn't considered and wins every single time.
Doubt it? How did that Patriot Act work out for everybody?
When you play let’s make a deal with democrats demise to ensue.
Lead follow or get the hell out of the way.
What is libertine, for example, about insisting on the individual right to civilly, legally, peacefully reject anything openly homosexual? The principled, conservative position on this conservative issue has zero to do with tolerance, judmentalism, etcetra, it has to do with freedom of self-determination. If there is an adoption agency out there, or a school system, or youth club like Boy Scouts, that chooses to accept openly homosexual aspects in its organization, fine. Let them find each other. But let others tell them to buzz off. Let the online dating services, the charities, the adoption agencies, the other youth groups, the local school districts, the churches, the wedding photographers and video makers, the landlords and the small business owners, whoever -- the right to refuse to accommodate the openly homosexual; they can go somewhere else. No harm, no foul.
That's all that needs to be argued within a solidly Christian and moral foundation. Moral conservatives shouldn't be about using law to enforce their own morality on others, but to defend their right to decline to participate. There is no "intolerance" here. In peaceful civilized places, discretion is the better part of valor. Ultimately we each only have the freedom to live morally. A government that throws barriers into the way of living morally is a bad government.
I am tired of the constant put downs of "Tea Party" and "Conservative" by the MSM and low information types. I think we need a strong new name that identifies people with a certain pride.
In the final analysis, votes rule the day.
Conservatives are in deep trouble - perhaps irreversible trouble - on that fact.
Legal immigration adds 500,000 new Democrats each year.
Amnesty will add another 5 million new Democrats.
The death rate subtracts Conservative votes each year.
The birth rate adds Democrat votes each year.
And the Hard Left MSM controls voter information.