Anybody West, Pa;in or O has to get independent votes to get elected president period.
how many truly independent people do you think there are? Many of them are democrats or republicans that just chose not to be affiliate with a party.
Do you need them to win? NO.
Zero will do a good job at making his base want to stay home. By sucking up to the mushy middle you water down your message and end up with RINOS.
Reagan did not water himself down to pander to a group claiming to be Independent. He ran on hard right conservative values.
McCain ran on mushy middle ideas. Look where that got us.
I guess you missed the democrats behavior over the past century, and yet they march on.
At some point this fight needs to be framed around liberty vs. statist control, that means some heads are going to get knocked. If you can’t sell liberty then move out of the way.
Time to start chucking it into the end zone.
Unfortunately, the RP leadership is not capable, and that is because they are caught up in minutia and pleasing a selfish electorate.
You sound like a true inside the beltway puke. I am sick and tired of this gutless, sissy and useless pandering to weak willed POS moderates.
2012 will NOT be a campaign to win over contemptible moderates. 2012 will be a campaign to excite conservatives to rise up and vote in great numbers.
More conservatives (and Liberals) sit home on election day than the election changing moderate vote.
Our Republic is nearing the point of destruction. Screw pandering to the moderates -- we need to bring the base out in numbers not seen in US History. That will win the day.
In order for our Republic to survive, we need to politically destroy the evil left, and the programs they have created.