Yes! [which includes, what he dubs, "the working class"]
Americans want to make money - profit!
It’s more of a sense that [the policies] weren’t helping them.
Wrong.
Americans want government to GET OUT OF THEIR WAY! They don't like government wealth redistribution, out of control spending and punitive taxation (and federal regulation).
The coalition [Republicans] have is again something that looks a lot like 1980: white working class, middle class, and the very wealthy. It’s a coalition that’s very capable of maintaining an edge in local and state elections. I think national elections are still a toss up … But on a local and state level, they really do have an edge, and that’s a very important edge because it’s self-reinforcing.
The Left is concerned, and they should be, about growing GOP strength in state government.
middle class vs working class?
That’s silly. The middle class works. It should be the working classes vs the taking classes(ie the productive vs the non productive).
What is so perplexing about why he is in office? He was put there by a very few highly populated areas in this country - you could count the highest of those on your fingers.
It isn’t hard to understand why they want a popular vote at all and why they hate the Electoral College. The reason why they don’t like a majority of the states under Republican governance is the very same reason they have trouble playing politics nationwide with the Electoral College. They aren’t dispersed enough nationwide to influence them.
The truth of the matter is that they don’t care about regional representation, influences, concerns that states are concerned with. They want dynamic and ubiquitous control brought by pure mob rule - rule by liberals backed by entitlement seekers. Democracy with a small “d”.
Next time one of them says do away with the EC, tell them Okay - lets do away with 2 Senators from Delaware, Rhode Island, NH and all the other low population states, then see what they say. [And yes, I’m aware there are also some low population Republican States, too.]
When Barack Obama was first elected president of the United States, it was hard to predict what the coming years had in store....
Hard to predict for who? Anyone who paid attention knew what was coming. America in decline from the economy and foreign policy to government intrusion in all aspects of your life. Anyone caught off guard as to how the world would react as a result of Obama and his ideology is an idiot.
Silly article - the author develops a good argument that voter concerns about the economy working and a distrust of government are the causes of the republican take over of state and locals and the big majority in HOR.
Then in one sentence near the end, he asserts that for a repub pres candidate to win, the candidate must avoid any connection to wall street or the tea party.
whaaaa?
“white working class, middle class, and the very wealthy”
Racist whites again to blame.
The Pubbies should campaign using the following “slogan”:
The GOVERNMENT is broken and you, the people, need to fix it!
Kinda simple, really.
Look at what has happened to the country since Obama was elected. If you are a White person with a private sector job, why in the world would you vote Democrat???
The very wealthy have French Revolution Syndrome, and still look to Democratic Socialism to anesthetize the masses.
“The coalition [Republicans] have is again something that looks a lot like 1980: white working class, middle class, and the very wealthy.”
So what yer saying is the people paying the bills are getting pissed.
Forget the BS these people are pedaling. Let’s put this in its proper perspective.
Now, remember.... the treasure trove of “The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby” and down-ticket state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this list categorically defines the post-Obama national mood:
<><> REPUBLICANS WON STUNNING HISTORY-MAKING ELECTORAL VICTORIES
<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;
<><> Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,
<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,
<><> 110 Of 140 Southern States election districts went Republican.
<><> GOP’s House majorities are so huge and solid NBC’s Chuck Todd says Dems can’t recapture losses until 2022.
<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;
<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.
<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors-—important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.
<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district-—every single House and Senate district went Repub
<><> GOP now controls the MINN State House.
<><> Ohio’s historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)
<><> Ohio’s Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer—all R-—Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D
<><> Britt Hume: “latino vote is zilch”-—”over-50” is significant 30% voting segment.
<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).
<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.
<><> GOP holds every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...
<><> Environmentalists fogged out-—suffered huge losses.
<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.
<><> “War on Women” became a ntl joke.
<><> Clinton’s labeled politically useless-—most candidates they flacked lost.
<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,
<><> Arizona House recount race went Republican.
<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),
<><> Repub McSally’s win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,
<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman admin after WWII.
<><> 73 percent of LA’s white voters say told they “strongly disapproved” of the president.
<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.
<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.
<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states’ legislature and Governor are Dem-held).
<><> 12 states, including Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, NC will push income tax cuts and fiscal reform.
<><> Illinois’ new Repub Governor’s top priority is reforming its nearly-bankrupt public pension system.
<><> Vermont Democrats allied w/ VT conservative Repubs to ward off voter backlash
<><> controversial and seemingly incompetent VT Democrat governor did not get the requisite votes to stay in office.
<><> VT poised to install Vermont’s first Republican governor in over four years
<><> Republicans now control two-thirds of the state legislatures.
The Nov 2014 message delivered by Americans to their govt: “ The people have spoken.”
FREEPER ACTION ALERT: Any and all communiques w/ the new Congress should include “The List”...photocopy it by the gross, and blanket Congress with it ...... including GOPE’s, RINOS, etc.
The whole purpose of the article was to state this paragraph.
This is what the Dems are afraid of happening. a right wing conservative candidate with American convictions who can destroy their progressive mush mouthed candidate.
The rest of the article is pure rubbish. This is the nugget.
The Dems want to keep hammering away on the Jedi mind control stealth theme that "these are not the droids you are looking for".
Our problem is not a lack of good candidates.
Our problem is not the Dems.
Our problem is a dysfunctional GOP-E that will work to prevent the cream from rising to the top in 2016.
And these GOP losers are being influenced by stupidly nuanced articles like these.
I beg to differ,stopped reading after the first paragraph,millions knew exactly where the country was going after this ass hat was elected.
What the hell did they think fundamentally transform meant?
I believe Obama was elected in 2008 due to racism.
“What’s that, you mean?”
I mean that many people voted for him as a novelty; being the first black man running on a major ticket. Even when he was running against Hillary in the democrat nomination fight this novelty very much worked to his favor; and the Clintons had very little room to point this out without being accused themselves of racism (just read about the fallout from Bill Clinton’s—the FIRST black president—comments on Hillary’s South Carolina loss).
So Obama was the benefactor of being black at the right time and place.
It’s very hard to beat an incumbent president who can selectively dole out favors to portions of the electorate he needs to win. Many of those who turned out in droves to cast a vote for this novelty in 2008 didn’t show up in 2012 but Obama was supported heavily by the Gimme-Dats and Romney was THE RINO who did not encourage the great American conservative base to turn out and vote.
The question is will the same idiots who cast a novelty vote in 2008 do so again in 2016 for the first woman major candidate?
AND... No move to the center for the GOP! That is ridiculous because this is what the GOP has been doing for the past 30 years now: GHW Bush, Dole, GW Bush, McCain, Romney. No—all have either failed or almost failed with the exception of the 2004 war vote for GW Bush.
Moving to the RIGHT is the right way to go. Then this election can be significant and the results will tell us what will be the future of America.
well....as we’ve seen....
The Democrats KNOW how to engineer a crisis whenever they need one.
(amazing how they continue to telegraph what they are going to do in these left-wing blogs and publications)
It is going to take a crisis, so leftists can lie their way to more entrenched power for themselves and less liberty for everyone else.
This is why the left must gain control over the internet, but controlling the wires and fiber lines still doesn’t get them much further to controlling what people can read and what they can say to each other.
Truth is the real enemy to liberalism, which is by its very nature anti-truth. Anit-truth about how the free market works, anti-truth about the necessity of honest money, and anti-truth about liberty.
Happily, the truth cannot be silenced and the more people who get exposed to the truth as it bobs like a cork in the ocean of liberal lies, the more people who come to grasp the truth and reject the lies. It is a victory for every aspect of liberalism a person rejects. For example, how many people today consider themselves to be socially liberal yet fiscally conservative? Even one of the evil Koch brothers describes himself as such. Well, liberal programs are always money-wasters, they are never “sustainable”, a concept that liberals love to scold the rest of us about.
We may actually be experiencing “peak liberalism”. Which makes me happy. Yet, I beg anyone who considers themselves to be “conservative” to think deeply about what, exactly, they seek to conserve and why. Some of the values are godly, and some are not. For example, some conservatives relish in a government that is big enough that it can shape society according to what conservatives approve of. That is a government that is big enough to also shape society according to what leftists approve of should they be able to seize power in the future.
Above all, conservatives should be seeking to maximize liberty and that means we need to cut, cut and cut government so it can protect our liberty but not threaten it.
I know this is what we don't want.
First, the guy completely validates the TEA Party, which has a primary emphasis on taxation and overspending.
Second, he talks up the need for some sort of crisis to shake things up, in the Dems favor. Which amounts to a yearning for a Cloward-Pivenesque outcome.