It sounds as if Palin is falling into the same trap. The message that wins those groups is the same message that wins Conservatives. There is no need to change. They should go back and look at Reagan’s message; it was the same to everyone.
Exactly
Reagan got the Reagan Democrats to come over in 1980 not because he went liberal....he did it by focusing on the economy, pro-life, and conservative values
Whenever I hear “forget the conservative base”...that is code for liberal. The conservative base wins elections for the GOP...not the hope of moderate/liberal independents voting GOP
“Reagan got the Reagan Democrats to come over in 1980 not because he went liberal....he did it by focusing on the economy, pro-life, and conservative values”
Well, we saw a lot of that at the convention this week.
Romney is, a Buchanan would put it, a ‘conservative of the heart’, someone who has led his life the way we conservatives say Americans should lead their lives. He’s laid out an agenda that is starkly different from Obama’s big spending socialism, and wants the private sector to succeed by liberating it.
This convention had the same message for everyone in America who wants America to succeed and prosper. It was at its root a basic patriotic and conservative message that freedom works, and our prosperity comes from economic freedom not government control and spending.