Posted on 04/03/2012 6:49:25 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
It's not just the GOP Elite that you are hurting. Do you think that America can recover from 4 more years of Obama? Think about it! OK, the bar is too high. Just think!
His theory wasn't that 35% of the people could get 51% of the vote, but that the MIDDLE wasn't a well established concept ~ that instead the American political picture was that of a bi-modal saddle with half affiliated with one pole and the other half affiliated with the other pole with a very small outlying "FRINGE" that was more noise than action.
The objective was to hold your base (your own pole or coalition center) and peel off a faction from the other pole and win the election.
LBJ had the exact same theory.
Each candidate applied the logic differently.
LBJ won simply by appealing to the remaining black voters who supported Republican candidates. Goldwater ignored them.
Wasn't a good idea.
Richard Nixon was the next major figure up and he used the same "hold your base, grab a faction" technique, and it worked. He picked up a majority of Southern white voters who'd traditionally been Democrat voters.
They didn't look back.
Again, Romney can't win by giving up any of the Republican factions ~ just won't happen.
Democrat "YOUTH" are available to be peeled off. Obama left them unemployed the last four years. I"m not sure how a guy renowned by his accumen in improving the productivity of businesses highly reliant on entry level workers is going to attract the people who think he might have been the guy who fired them.
So, about 13% of these guys have been non-Christians.
Psalm 84 V.10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Thank you for helping relect Obama
I realize you honestly believe this unprovable statement. Let us just disagree.
If we have to vote for Romney in order to vote ABO, then we MUST do it.
I was SO disappointed when I had to vote for McCain but am sure glad I did now. I knew what a community organizer was so no way I could vote for oblamer, but he’s much worse than I thought he would be.
It’s not unprovable.
>>The party isn’t going to allow a challenger to a GOP president. Anyone who believes they will is a moron. Besides, this expecting political salvation is for souls that are already lost.
Yeah? I hate Romney too. BUT I WILL NOT SUFFER UNDER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA!
You say that without backing it up. This is called an opinion and we all have our own opinion.
Each Obama voter who is peeled away is worth 2 new conservative votes. -1 for Obama and +1 for Romney. "Compassionate conservatism" won 2 terms for Bush. Holding the base and taking enough of the moderate vote to get to over half is the only way to win in our 2 party system. History proves this.
Thanks.
Are any of those presidents from modern times? Just curious.
I'm waiting.
That's a start.
Romney is simply not an attractive candidate; has no good ideas; and probably condones theft.
Mistruth #1: Voting 3rd-party...won't be staying home...
Comment upon your 'Bliss #1 comment: Whatever. Vote for Romney...pretending he wouldn't expand his Bay State socialism...ignorance is bliss, after all. (There was no "RomneyCare" in MA...'twas just some "conspiracy theorists" telling tall tales...)
Oh, and should Romney win...just act blameless should God get a bit riled about so-called "God fearers" having no "issues" with voting for those setting themselves up as rivals to Him. [I'm sure, "Idolatry" isn't all that big a thing to God.../sarc]
Goldwater lost... in large part... because America was afraid of Ivan and was building underground shelters in their backyards so that they and their families could survive the coming nuclear attack... and I was ducking and covering in school. lbj and the dims spoon fed a willing public on the lie that Goldwater would destroy the world and that only democrat diplomacy would save us all. The election was over as that cute little girl tore pedals from a daisy. Reagan destroyed that argument by defeating Ivan with superior strength and determination and Ragan also disproved almost every other argument in your post.
Goldwater did screw up... and purging all rinos might have been the wrong thing to do at the wrong time. But if rinos cannot accept the foundational tenants of Conservative Republicanism... and by definition they are one in the same... then once again as Reagan said, "Let them go their way".
Reagan said in his 1975 CPAC speech:
“Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness.
I don t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, We must broaden the base of our partywhen what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the peoples earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexingadjusting the brackets to the cost of livingso that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in governments share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing governments coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.”
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mitt romney does not stand for any of what Reagan spoke about... he campaigns on it but his governance proves otherwise. He is not even remotely Conservative... he is a ultra progressive who wrote the foundational outline of obamacare. Either the republican party returns to republicanism... or we destroy it and/or rebuild it. The progressive way leads to a country that I refuse to accept... so I will draw my line in the sand with this election... and I have given the republican elite a warning loud and clear... since 2008.
LLS
We have a problem with the party being infiltrated with RINO progressives and in my opinion the best way to fix the problem is to identify it, admit it, and when all else fails LET IT FAIL as it should.
I will not vote for Romney, I will vote for conservatives at all levels where I can vote for them. As far as President I will write in my choice.
Regarding government reach, I know that the presidency is not an all or nothing proposition. Again, we are not electing a king and I will not vote as if we are.
I will not sign up for 8 years of a RINO presidency.
Gingrich and Santorum couldn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot in Virginia. You can't prove a statement with another unprovable statement. I remain skeptical.
You really need a daily dose of Rush.
LLS
You people are such losers. You can't win elections unless you get willing confederates to trick the system. This time the tricksters are Democrats.
I agree with you LR. Think about it—can anyone here honestly say we wouldn’t be better off if McCain had won?
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