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.
But if he was out of town at the time, it would be understandable.
Hey, I already know you're a homophobe.
But I do remember how pretty your lashes were when we had dinner together. :-)
I am sure many representatives got on a plane to make that vote. I think you need to find out WHY he missed that critical pro-life vote.
I'll ask him when I see him ...
LOL. I'm ok, but I'm starting to worry about you.
Great! Report back to us ASAP.
I think it is VERY troubling that he couldn't make that vote.
apparently dear, you havent read any of my other posts elsewhere on FR. homophobia is not a problem for me.
The homosexual agenda on the other hand is, but I suppose some cant tell the difference from the persons and the agenda, but thats okay. really. ignorance is bliss!
I admit though I am skeered of liberal gun grabbin pro abort drag queens. Oh wait, thatd be hillary? Hmmm, nope, but close;)
If it wasn't a life or death matter, it doesn't matter why he missed it. It WAS a LIFE or death matter to Terri Schiavo.
One reason I will say Common Tator's thesis might not work like he thinks is there is a difference to "RINOs" and "DINOs." The people like Webb will vote and give control to the Democratic leadership. RINOs undermine the party and the leadership more than anything else.
As a football player I dressed up in a skirt in High School for a pep rally, wearing a skirt for a good cause doesn't mean much of anything, certainly not having to do with any agenda. That's why I feel you might be trying to bend things in an abnormal manner. I admit, OMalley isn't on my must read list on FR, my apologies.
What the bloody blazes does dressing up in drag have to do with the homosexual agenda?
that part of my post regarding rootie was in jest, although i have big questions about a man wearing a skirt or dress, especially several times (football players exuded).
Rootie IS pro homosexual agenda. that Is an issue for me. so is gun grabbing, and folks that praise sagers work. I do NOT vote for pro abort politicians.
Well im glad im not high on your list so :-P ~ ~ ~ ~
Giuliani in Drag [John Podhoretz]
Rudy Giuliani, for a gag video at a press dinner, dressed up as a woman. I understand that liberals think conservatives are so stupid they won''t be able to draw a distinction between a stunt and the real thing.
National Review Online (The Corner)
Apparently the liberals are right.
Because the vote occurred during a special session called on short notice during the congressional Easter recess, 174 House members were not present for the vote
Sure ping away - now remind me what we are talking about here?
I am beginning to wonder about all these people obsessed with Rudy's routine.
Hunter's weird birth control Bill.
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