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.
*LOL*. You know, a number of the Army Generals I directly worked for overseas some 10+ years ago were Vietnam vets, and some told similar stories privately. Listening to some of the stuff they found on returning home, you marveled that they didn't just lay a couple of these hippies straight out. Man I know I would have had a REAL hard time - I can't even imagine what that was like! The problem is, when you're in that uniform, if you do anything other than ignore them, its your fault. Remember when some bases stateside ordered servicemembers not to wear uniforms off base? I read about that. Unfreakinbelievable. I'm glad I was just a kid and missed that stuff.
Great rant!
He is a terrible speaker, has no charisma at all, and engenders NO faith in his ability to get ANYTHING done.
And no, he drains that glass....he would ruin our economy and based on what I know of his record, wouldn't do much, if anything for our troops nor the WOT.
I have been fortunate to attract all the smart men. :0)
But yeah, my first instinct was to draw from Torie Clarke. Hence the thinking of the female gender. :)
No, I found someone with a lot of Conservative positions who has PROVED, with DEEDS, not just words and platitudes, what he CAN do.
Some of our allies respect Clinton, so really what does that prove?
If you had a video cam you'd see me wiping the tears from my eyes with a big smile!
John, I'm going to politely disagree with this. When the country does go bankrupt within 30 years, the one God-given, constitutionally enumerated right that I and my family will depend on most is the 2nd amendment. I'm not referring .50 cals or machine guns (though there is absolutely nothing wrong about those types of firearms). I'm talking about my semi-automatic rifles and handguns that will be necessary to protect and defend the lives and liberty of my family and I against criminals (who will never obey gun-control law) and tyrants.
I won't support any candidate in a primary election who has shown a propensity to agree that more gun-control (which has been implemented with a policy of incrementalism since at least 1934) is a good thing regardless of what the constitution has to say about it.
Should that type of candidate advance to the general election, even with a (R) behind his name, well, I haven't yet decided if I can hold my nose that long.
FRegards,
H-T
(( bwteim )) you're mine and don't you forget it!!!
Man I wish I lived on the East Coast so I could join you down there!
bonyx
I remember teaching you how to post poll results that you FReeped. I did it one time, and you said "Gosh, I'd like to learn how to do it", so I taught you. :)
Calling fellow conservatives treasonous liberals is beyond the pale.
Was it an exaggeration?
Or was it a fact?
LOL!
Further proving my assertion that I attract all the smart men! You're one of 'em.
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