[pabianice]

This article is full of crap, I know, but I post it because the question is valid: can conservatives ever again win a presidential election when the Liberals' 40-year strategy of creating more and more dumbed-down city "gimmees" keeps increasing their proportion of the electorate?

[Berlin_Freeper]

If one more queer says conservatives need to move to the Left to win elections, I am going to scream and scratch their eyes out!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The GOP Can’t Afford to Ignore Massive Election Fraud Perpetrated by Cities Anymore

Fixed it.

[hosepipe]

Good God people.. the GOP needs to be flushed..
Somebody please flush that thing.. it stinks..

[cripplecreek]

More freakin stupidity. Romney won the primary in the cities and many of us warned that it would create a bigger problem in the general because those urban areas were going to go to Obama leaving Romney to pick up the people he had passed over.

Rush: Romney is winning like a liberal (from February)

[Jewbacca]

I would recommend endless, demoralizing, ads to suppress vote in that area along the lines of “Democrats have ruined the black family and re-enslaved them.”

[Jewbacca]

I would recommend endless, demoralizing, ads to suppress vote in that area along the lines of “Democrats have ruined the black family and re-enslaved them.”

[Theodore R.]

This article could have been written 47 years ago, when it would have urged John Vliet Lindsay as the solution for GOP woes!

[catnipman]

If the party in opposition to the Progressive/Liberal/Marxist/Redistributionist/Socialist/Democrat (PLMRSD) party cannot win by espousing opposition principals and ideas, then it does not matter if the opposition party wins or loses. Our country is lost either way, whether the PLMRSD party wins or whether the opposition party wins by espousing non-opposition principals.

I’d rather go ahead and let the whole thing crash and burn quickly rather than supporting a worthless opposition party that simply drags out the destruction in a long term fashion, so that future rebuilding, if possible, starts to take place sooner.

[TChris]

I think one of the fundamental problems here is that campaign strategists are ignoring the content of the GOP platform in favor of strategy. Winning is more important that what you win.

I, and most other conservatives I know, are not willing to list all our beliefs as "for sale" to gain votes. Yes, there is some uncomfortable compromise between the center and the right that goes on when election time comes around, but I think that going after urban voters would require too much compromise in the defining core of the conservative voter.

City dwellers are generally a good fit for the Left because they both group-think. They believe the natural and moral answers to problems involve large groups of people. Consensus and cooperation, real or imagined, are very important. Those who act as individuals are irresponsible and probably dangerous.

Conservatives and country folks are a most natural fit because they tend to believe more in an individual mandate to solve a problem. When there's something wrong, I start with me to resolve it. If I can't solve the problem then, and only then, do I begin to look for others to help. I will involve the minimum outside help/influence necessary, and then only those I know and trust.

Of course those are broad generalizations, but I think those fundamental differences are what will keep the Right from appealing to urban populations any time soon.

[a fool in paradise]

No talk about how Obama and the Democrats have to reach out to the bulk of the counties in this nation that resoundly OPPOSE their rhetoric, lies, agenda and policies.