The Only Way for Republicans to Win

Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2008 | Lorie Byrd

[Philo1962]

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[Emperor Palpatine]

That was Reagan's secret of success.

Bypass the LSM and take the case straight to the American people.

It worked pretty well, too.

[Hacklehead]

MORE BAD NEWS. Because of changing demographics and the winner take all electoral college system, IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT REPUBS WILL WIN ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The only hope is that they system is changed so that the Presisdent was elected by popular vote or proportional awarding of electors from each state according to the popular vote. The chances that the RATS will allow this or that the repubs are even aware of it are too low to calculate.

[JasonC]

All you have to do is wait five minutes. The people get to see Dems in power. The end.

[sickoflibs]

RE . “The problem is the media will ignore it or twist it to show how “uncaring” all the Republicans are.”

You are stating the obvious. The media was 100% in the tank for BoB, worst than Clinton in 1992. But regardless we need a strategy. The media was forced to turn on Clinton in 1993+1994, most freepers forget that. And you dont want to give up, do you? 2010?

I say the only way to counter this negative doomsday demand bailout demand socialism is to sound the alarms about deficit ala 1992, and act non-partison (cynical) ala Ross Perot. I can see no other message that can compete with the doomsday alarm bells ringing, and Obama right now has the wind at his back. We also need to stir the Sheenan Moonbats to demand Obama do crazy stuff, we NEED him to go Chavis, and he is NOT now.

Some moonbats, we need more (they need our support LOL) :

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3104

http://www.democratunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7899641

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/389

No, Al. The “pent-up demands” of the Democratic Party do not represent “political payback”. More accurately, those demands are aimed at getting our country back on the right track, which just prior to Election Day less than 30% of voters believed we were on.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Instead of the glass half empty view of the election, I saw some opportunities arise for Republicans.

Clearly, the author of this piece is feeble-minded.

[Smokin' Joe]

The best thing to do is when Osama is sworn in; do what they did to Bush

I have already started.

Obama's Fault!

[nclaurel]

Even the foibles of Clinton got some media coverage. How will anything found on an “Obama Watch” be gotten to the public attention? Even Fox is all Obama all the time. There seems to be no communication media other than Conservative radio or Internet sites that will report any of the truth-—the public doesn’t use either and the media demonizes them.

A matter as serious as the Berg case going to the SC because Obama feels he is above the Constitution isn’t being reported. I don’t have an answer but hope we can find one before that administration attempts to silence radio and Internet.

[Ingtar]

From what I am seeing in the numbers on the election, Sarah got the “Religious Right” out to vote. McCain then alienated anyone with Fiscal Conservatism in their portfolio. The Catholics flopped because too many of the CINOs got enamoured with an idea over Life.

[Cacique]

McCain was a castrated ass. Too much reaching over the aisle bull in his lifetime to know any better. Politics is war and all he did was bring a bat to a gunfight and got his clock cleaned. I have no interest in a detente with the enemy, I want to destroy him, vanquish him once and for all. We need leaders that will take no prisoners, will not compromise and will never surrender.

[lentulusgracchus]

Republicans are afraid of being hated for being conservative

They've let the ideological MSM America-haters bully them. Sad.

Set them all up for spinal implant surgery.

[af_vet_rr]

What made things worse, though, is that Republicans never really articulated a coherent overall message and some Republicans did not hold positions different enough from their Democrat opponents to provide an alternative message. The only message that has ever won nationally for Republicans is an unapologetically conservative one.

When John McCain rushed back to Washington to jump on the massive bailout bandwagon it became hard for him to argue that his approach to the problem would be significantly different than that of Barack Obama and impossible to argue that his was a conservative solution.

If Republicans hope to have any chance to win in 2010 and 2012 they will have to find more effective ways to combat the liberal bias in the media, but even more important they need to decide what they stand for and then to stand firm.

Republicans are afraid of being hated for being conservative, so many have gone the “moderate” route, with poor electoral results. If they would stand solidly for conservative principles and policies voters might actually learn what conservatism really is, rather than the stereotypes they have in their heads. Maybe they would even win a few elections along the way.

No truer words have been spoken. When you have economic problems, and the "conservative" ticket of McCain/Palin is supporting the various bailouts, amnesty, etc., they simply aren't going to win, because the undecideds simply won't care if both tickets are similar in key areas, and the true conservatives find it hard to get motivated about voting when the GOP has come down to this.

Towards the end, only thing that would have helped McCain was if Hillary had been on Obama's ticket (or had been the head of the ticket).

Unless the GOP gets its act together and decides to be a lot more conservative, losing by only 200 electoral votes will be a fond memory. A lot of us are tired of compromising our beliefs by voting for candidates like McCain/Palin, etc., and I really think the GOP has reached the end of the line with Conservatives after this last election.

[lentulusgracchus]

The people get to see Dems in power. The end.

How about, some Democratic committee chairmen get to see some other committee chairmen shoved rudely aside because they aren't ideological enough for Nancy Pelosi, who plays cute and helps a maximally malignant bleeding wart on the ass of humanity like Henry "Nose Hairs" Waxman give an old warhorse like John Dingell the shove?

Thereby pissing off the entire Michigan and Ohio congressional delegations, who were counting on Dingell to help out the swan-diving auto industry and keep their union-membership base from getting splattered like a crate of eggs on a parking lot?

How 'bout, Democrats get a chance to see other Democrats in power roughing up their own, and promptly tossing their cookies?

Sympathetic Midwestern Republicans commiserating with those Michigan and Ohio (and Pennsylvania, and New York) Democrats, and offering tea and sympathy at the right times, could screw up Ringmaster Nancy but good, by engendering mass Dem defections on, oh, Nancy's draconian gun-grabber bill that she'll push early in the new session, is my guess.

[AuntB]

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