What an assinine comment. The problem with republicans is that they tried to out-liberalize liberals. If they actually catered to southern whites, they would have run on traditional values, small government, etc. Instead, we got John McCain talking about global warming as if it were true. Come on people, nobody ran as a conservative this go-round.
“Assinine”? Gee, thanks for elevating the discourse.
Last night, I saw that wave of blue creep over more and more of the United States map and it terrified me. Counties that were solidly pro-Bush only four years ago flipped, and in some cases decisively. The GOP has basically written off winning elections in entire swaths of our country. First it was the Northeast, then the West, then the Great Lakes, now it’s looking like the Rocky Mountain states are slipping away. Exactly how do you propose the GOP becomes a national party again if it can’t even compete in major population centers?
Let’s be honest: Changing demographics and opinions have been working against the GOP for decades. 9-11 changed the narrative for a couple of elections, but now we’re seeing the “real” voting patterns start to settle in again. The future of our party looks bleak, but some people around here seem to think that it’s still 1980 and we can play by 1980 rules.
I don’t know what the answer is, I just know that an entire generation of voters has written off the GOP. One only has to look at the make-up of the delegates at our convention in St. Paul to see what one of the big issues is: our party doesn’t reflect America as it is. Perhaps it reflects how we want it to be, but that doesn’t win elections.