1) The candidates that have lost their run at the Presidency on the Republican ticket were—wait for it-— Not Southerners. the last two Democrat winners were, what? Southerners. History looks favorably on that region in prounoumcing who will be the next president of the United States. Bush 41 won, but his opponent was from MASS while he had Reagan’s coattails. In ‘92 Clinton beat him. I’m not saying only a Southerner can win, but I’d choose someone from the Mid-west as more likely to have the upset then a person from the northeast.
2) If the media has successfully painted the GOP as anti-Immigrant, then why is the ONLY area they score better then dems on Immigration? And why are the polls so against amnesty?
3) The voters the GOP lost in the last election are known as Reagan democrats. That is, CONSERVATIVES that left the DNC because they didn’t represent them but left the GOP now because the DNC ran candidates with conservative platforms while the GOP became liberal lite.
4) You state Rudy is better then Hillary, even if he’s a little to the left of you. Hillary’s record is comparable to Rudy’s, in all but maybe the war. So does that mean your beliefs in essence reflect that of Joe Leiberman’s? I’d praise you for that if you were a Dem, but on a republican ticket it is unacceptable to me. that position will not bring the Reagan Dems back.
Good analysis. PSUAdam is young (graduated in ‘03), and hasn’t come to an undersanding of Conservative politics.
The GOP wins elections when it stands on Conservative principals. It loses when it tries to be everything to everybody. PSUAdam touts the ‘broad brush’ philosophy of making the GOP open to everyone. Conservatives can’t win in states like New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, et. al. because few there are likely to vote Conservative. Thus the GOP, to win, has to promote more centrist candidates.
Well, that’s what has gotten us into this situation to begin with. We’ve been far too amenable to centrist candidates, to the harm of the Conservative cause. This is a’ goin’ to change come 2008. Only, it won’t happen with Rudy, Johnny McC, or whoever. They’re going to soon see the handwriting on the wall; McC may already witnessed it.