Posted on 02/28/2014 9:29:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know how old you are, but back then the Reagan Democrats were part of the base.
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Of course Reagan had the ‘good luck’ of following J Carter.
And, fortunately, Carter wasn’t smart enough to turn 47% of the population into ‘government dependents’.
BO got this going for him and definitely there are enough complete fools in the 53% to put him over the top.
I am ‘afraid’ we are going to have a MOOCH/BO ticket and we are going to end up with a Supreme Court that will make Ginsberg/etal look like Conservatives.
Picture the likes of Holder - Clinton (either) - and their minions sitting on the court....Or even set a precedent of the FIRST married couple on the court.
Of course by then if that gets elected, it won’t matter any more anyway.
Classic….
“Reagan Democrats are Republicans today. The rest are dead.”
Not true, in every swing state, turnout by white-working class males was way down. The Bain Capital ads broke any bond Romney might have developed with them. There’s lots of Reagan democrats; what makes them messy for the GOP-E is that they respond well to issues like illegal immigration, guns, abortion etc. Those issues send our GOP leaders in to a short period of hyperventilation after which they flee and speak darkly of the tea party conspiracy.
Fact is, you don’t talk to those voters effectively without the forbidden three isues.
My point seems to have been misunderstood. Those folks who were Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, most of whom have long since already come over to the GOP. The older ones at the time have already largely died off. The “youngest” of those who were teens are already in their 50s.
What you’re talking about is leftist Willard trying to appeal to the Conservative White working class (many of whom are already Republicans, otherwise we wouldn’t have a majority in the House) and it falling on its face. I didn’t vote for Willard because he was a ringer for Zero, never going to win (I voted for Virgil Goode in the general).
The irony is that if we still had the same demographics and voters of 1980 and 1984, even the execrable Socialist Willard would’ve won, despite his being a faker.
I still have my old “John Linder For Congress” yard sign hanging on the wall in my basement.
“I remember John Linder always as a conservative leader.”
Rep John Linder was my rep in the 7th Dist of GA for many years. I was a fine person and he always voted the right way. He also did a lot to promote the Fair Tax.
Memo to the GOPe.
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