Rove, Coulter, John Hinderaker, and others who have concluded that only Romney can garner the vaunted independents in the general election are wrong.
It is true that independents elected Obama. They voted for him for the shallowest of reasons-his race. Now they’ve been mugged by the reality of liberal policies’ failures. Independents are now in just as foul a mood as the rest of us.
People are angry and fearful, and this includes independents. For this reason, I believe Newt has a better chance to gain their favor than Romney, because Newt taps into that anger and fear. Newt won the FEMALE vote in SC, for crying out loud. Perhaps when women perceive that chaos is imminent, they go with the dude with the gun?
There’s an entirely new dynamic as relates to the independent vote now, as opposed to 2008. The media, having sold us this bill of goods, no longer have the ability to persuade. The 2010 elections, characterized by liberal media shilling for each and every Dem in local, state, and Congressional races, proved that the media have lost their ability to sway votes. This was the lesson of that election and it is what Coulter, Rove, et al, are missing. They ascribe too much power to the lib media.
Obama has taken liberalism from feel-good bumper-sticker slogans to actual practice, and it is failing miserably.
Independents are giving conservatism another look. Do they like what they see? I’m not sure it matters, they will go with their emotions, and that means they’ll vote for change. And that means Newt, not Romney, is better positioned to garner their vote.
You are right. Independents, or as they should correctly be called, apoliticals, have been hurt for being politically correct. Back people were fooled by thinking Obama was anything like them, and the rest of America thought, “Sure it’s time for a black President!”. But didn’t get a typically vetted one because the media was in on the scam.
And they all lost their jobs or their nest eggs or their houses!!!
They don’t want to vote for a conservative because the cool kids (Hollywood) say they are creepy, but they definitely don’t want to vote for the guy that hurt and tricked them.
So there is no reason to go soft on values to seduce the apoliticals. Time to show them what a Reagan President can bring.
BTTT
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