Pretending that the nation is more conservative (or more liberal) than it really is strikes me as a primary error political addicts, one issue fetishists, and related goofballs make.
Right now, the agenda that’s being advanced is one that imports millions of illegal immigrants, millions of proto-islamic terrorists, outsources jobs, runs up billions of dollars of federal debt, reduces the quality of education yearly, and allows gays to advance a radical anti-family/anti-child agenda through the public schools.
And this is after 8 years of Republican rule. For your reasoning to be correct, this is where the country would have to be (or at least reasonably close to it).
I call BS. We’re clearly not as conservative a country as we were when Reagan was nominated. However if the GOP was to nominate Hunter and give him the money and platform to address the nation, he’d win a victory as big as Reagan’s and for the same reasons.
Pure horse droppings. If the right person comes along and promotes a conservative message, he/she will be supported. People just haven't heard honest conservatism in a long time, that's all.
If the folks at FR crafted a platform, for example, I doubt it would appeal to more people than if the folks at DU crafted a platform.
So explain FR's popularity then, with members and lurkers from all over the world.
Pretending that the nation is more conservative (or more liberal) than it really is strikes me as a primary error political addicts, one issue fetishists, and related goofballs make.
Now you're just being condescending. Newsflash. There is no true middle ground in politics. It's all about drawing a line and forcing people to make their own decisions. That's why the Stupid Party has been losing, they don't know how to sell conservatism.
If they turned off their TVs they’d likely come to a place where they realize just how conservative we all are.
Those of us who have jobs would anyhow.
You got it. Even party primaries are dominated by the more liberal and more conservative wings of the respective parties because these groups are the most passionate about their agendas.
Regular people, who in general are socially liberal, pro-national defense and fiscally conservative, vote in November after sorting through the fog of liberal and conservative appeals to try to come to some kind of decision making process.
Maybe you're too young to remember, but a conservative platform did very well in 1980, in 1984, and again in 1988. Very, very well. Landslide-victory type well.