Posted on 02/28/2007 7:54:19 AM PST by Al Simmons
Wedge Issues Posted by: “Common Tator” in FreeRepublic.com April 16, 2002
The one thing that amazes me on this site is the belief by some that the conservative position is the majority position.
Mostly people tend to believe it could be the majority position if the right candidate ran, or if it weren't for the media or RINOs or etc, etc. They really don't have a clue.
Roughly 2/3 of the public has firm views. They have made up their minds and do not change them. This group is nearly equally split between the left and the right.
There are about a 1/3 of the population that is never sure. Sometimes it will go left and sometimes it will go right.
When a party restricts itself to its base it will be in a minority party. The "base only" party will be reduced to crying as the other side works its will. In some nations both the left and right restrict themselves to just their base. That nation then develops five or six parties. And all governments in that nation are coalitions of a major party and some of the minor parties. In that situation the minor party always has more influence than its numbers represent. For the Rino and Dino haters that is the worst of all worlds.
Many of Rino and Dino haters try to make ours a 3 or 4 party system. They never figure out that their splinter right or left party would never get much power in a government based on coalitions. They are too small. It is the centrist parties that have a 1/3 of the public as potential members that get the clout in the Multi Party system. As you can see in a 2 party or a 5 or 6 party system the center tends to prevail.
But in our two party system the center is an instrument the major parties use to enact their goals. In the multiparty system it is the center parties that use the right and left to enact their centrist goals. Such a system like those in Italy and France are RINO and DINO paradise.
This nation now and for all of the last 140 years has been roughly 1/3 left, 1/3 right and 1/3 in the middle. Those in the middle who run for office are what we call RINOs and DINOs.
When Republicans drive RINOs out they leave the party to become DINOs and take their political power with them. The Democrat party gets them by default.
Then the Democrats thanks to its Dino buddies have a veto proof house and senate. It was Barry Goldwater's greatest accomplishment. In my BRAIN I knew Barry would elect a lot of DINOs ... and he did.
If a party with most of the center wins the presidency too, they have a filibuster proof senate. That party then can do anything it wants to do. When the party leadership takes control they implement the parties’ core beliefs. It was what LBJ did after Goldwater drove all the RINOs into LBJ's camp. It let LBJ do the "Great Society." LBJ had to have Barry's help to do it. And Barry did what it took to give LBJ the support he needed... LBJ had all the left. Barry gave him all the center.
To win control a party must keep its base and get over half the middle. If the Republicans have more RINOs than the Democrats have DINOs the Republican agenda prevails. If the Democrats have more DINOs than the Republicans have RINOs the Democrat agenda prevails.
Those that demand the defeat of RINOs are doing all they can to enact the leftist agenda. They are the most valuable asset the left has. One of the most effective tactics in politics in the negative campaign.
Negative campaigns are not about getting votes for your candidate. They are about getting the other side's base to not vote for their candidate. Thus if you can get the right to vote against a Rino or not vote at all, you can elect a very liberal candidate.
If you can force the Republicans to nominate a right wing candidate so right wing he can't get the center voters, you elect the left candidate.
Who on earth said that?
I get the same feeling about you when Alan Keyes gets mentioned even in passing.
Now that might have set him off.........LOL.
I don't know him personally, though we both worked with some of the same people (he was at least 10-15 years ahead of me, so to speak, while on active duty).
Well, it wouldn't be the first time I've 'stepped into it' coming to defense of a senior officer simply because of his rank. Must have missed his initial post to you. All I can say is 'sorry'!!! :>(
Well, unlike some here, my past employ by the good Doctor has never been kept a secret.
Isn't Ted Olson supporting Rudy? I find that interesting...I suppose EV considers him a political hack, too.
I am so glad you said that!
So, that pretty much leaves Duncan Hunter, and Jim Gilmore has also entered to race. Very Hunter-like, but better in front of cameras and audiences, and handles the media well.
See, now that there are no kooky 3rd party guys, we could actually get somewhere! The 3rd party folks here will be deeply saddened, though.
The remark about Guilani's staff being overpaid reeked of envy imo.
Well, well.
I suppose those White Evangelicals are all traitorous evil pro-abortion gun grabbers, huh?
And his inability to hide the fact that he has an ego the size of the Empire State Building prevents his ever being elected to ANY position....
BS
You aren't nearly as "clever" nor as "witty" as you imagine yourself to be; nor are you as politically as savvy as you hope others will think you are.
Don't forget the blood on their hands from aborted babies.
It's been said by a number of posters in the Rudy threads from time to time.
The standard these people try to set for Alan Keyes couldn't be reached by any living man, and yet, their standard for party liberals is lower than a rat's belly. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
There isn't a single post on this thread or anywhere else on the forum that supports your statement.
Your post is a charge by innuendo that "some" here are in Giuliani's employ. Name names.
I sensed a large amount of hypocrisy.
His campaigns of late got him into the public's eye, undoubtedly stroked his ego, and helped him pay the mortgage.
But as far as having any influence on the electoral process - nada. You notice that Dubya didn't appoint him to his administration, didn't you?
He is cut out to be a charismatic college professor, that would be his best role.
How could I forget that; I was the one called a murderer.
Ted Olson is just blinded by his personal friendship with Rudy, I think is the talking point of choice. But heck, there is no reason to totally dismiss the possibility out of hand that Olson is greedy, gay and Godless himself. After all, he is a very highly paid lawyer, and thus greedy, and a disproportionate number of lawyers are Godless, and has Olson remarried yet?
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