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Lou Dobbs Drinks the Insider Kool-Aid: The GOP will destroy itself by abandoning social issues
American Thinker ^ | 01/13/2014 | Jonathon Moseley

Posted on 01/13/2014 7:47:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Lou Dobbs, business anchor, offers a lot of truly excellent and a little really atrocious advice to the Republican Party in his new book Upheaval, released on January 7, which he discussed in his January 6 broadcast "Steps to creating a winning election strategy for the Republican Party." 

Dobbs's new book is a must-read; overall, the GOP should elect Lou Dobbs as its next party chairman.  Though you may need to skip a few chapters.

The problem is that Dobbs insists that the Republican Party must abandon social issues.  He argues passionately that the Republican Party must not give up even a single voter to the Democrats.  Yet he then immediately recommends abandoning, alienating, and irritating the largest bloc of voters within the Republican Party: social conservatives, including socially conservative Hispanics and Catholics and Reagan Democrats.

Lou Dobbs has drunk the "Inside the Beltway Kool-Aid."  He wants the GOP to pander to voters with very low probabilities of ever being persuaded to vote Republican, while alienating voters with a very high probability of voting Republican.  This contradiction is a problem which business reporter Dobbs should be able to recognize.

A business-minded approach would follow the "80/20" rule, which teaches that 80 percent of a salesperson's sales come from 20 percent of his prospects.  So a salesperson needs to focus on his or her best chances for success.  (Note that "80/20" is not meant to be a precise measurement -- just a way of illustrating a point.)


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: conservatism; gop; loudobbs; socialissues
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To: SeekAndFind

Lou has spent too much time cavorting around with the homosexualist RINOs at Fixed News.


21 posted on 01/13/2014 9:22:45 AM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: SeekAndFind

If America loses its moral underpinnings, it will lose everything. Dobbs is a fool.


22 posted on 01/13/2014 9:27:06 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: TheGipperWasRight
Where exactly is this big Republican push on social issues?

It is about whose rings they have to kiss during the campaign. We have a litmus test for Republican candidates and make our guys give pledges to certain conservative single-issue organizations. These statements that were made are then used by Democrat opponents and the media to try and drive a wedge between the conservative base and more moderate swing voters by making republicans look "extreme".

The Democrats don't do this. You'll never see a Democrat candidate go to Planned Parenthood and pledge to uphold partial-birth abortion. You'll never see them go to the Million Moms and pledge to enact more gun control laws. And their constituents are wise enough to not demand this. I've often said that Democrats have the luxury of waiting until they've been elected before they come out in support of unpopular positions.

23 posted on 01/13/2014 10:04:18 AM PST by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh , Lou was blathering on and on about the right for gays to marry, the other day, on Imus, or some such.

Its either total conservative or Hillary, especially after (not Christie, we already knew he was it when he smooched BO) Ryan’s turncoat deal

A conservative lite will be like bush He’ll spend four or eight years ushering in every liberal idea just to try to be popular with everyone but the conservatives, whom he’ll hate

While we’d be better off with Hillary, so we could blame our final demise on liberalism where it belongs

Hillary can’t be happy about the Christie deal. She’d have beaten him with a wave of her hand


24 posted on 01/13/2014 10:36:29 AM PST by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind; All
A lot of Democrats are social conservatives if you take it to mean being strongly against abortion and the gay agenda, which I am, and I consider myself socially conservative.

Does being "socially conservative" mean limiting government to the point that it cannot force Americans to fund, advance, and tolerate abortion and homosexual invasion everywhere from Boy Scouts and public schools to the military and adoption agency policies ...

... or does "socially conservative" mean using government to force Americans to fund, advance, and tolerate "conservative" government that prosecutes abortion and homosexual invasion?

Rick Santorum was right, for example, in his socially conservative position that pro-abortion tax-supported Planned Parenthood should be defunded. But was he "socially conservative" in wanting the funds to be used instead to promote adoption? If that's "socially conservative," then it's also PRO GOVERNMENT and I must not be "socially conservative" even though I am totally against abortion and the gay agenda.

One can be socially conservative and PRO GOVERNMENT, and one can be socially conservative and be LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

The divide isn't with the issues; the divide is in how the true "conservative" defines government's role IN those issues.

25 posted on 01/13/2014 10:53:54 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: stanne

RE: Oh , Lou was blathering on and on about the right for gays to marry, the other day, on Imus, or some such.

OK, here’s a question...

How does a conservative ( who does not support gay marriage) talk about gay marriage without sounding like a hateful bigot?

How does a conservative answer a question regarding abortion as it relates to rape and incest? ( something they will SURELY BE ASKED ABOUT, see Aiken, Todd ).

Lou Dobbs is wrong in this — YOU CANNOT AVOID SOCIAL ISSUES. Why? BECAUSE THE LIBERAL PRESS WILL HOUND YOU ON IT AND ASK YOU ABOUT IT ANYWAY.

You might not be interested in social issues, but social issues are interested in you.


26 posted on 01/13/2014 11:21:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: ex-snook

I can’t even figure out what you were trying to say.


27 posted on 01/13/2014 12:58:03 PM PST by ansel12
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delaware senate ping .... odonnell


28 posted on 01/13/2014 10:39:51 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead. Let the GOP bury the GOP.)
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