Parker is ignoring the fact that McCain, who rejected the religious right and would not campaign on its issues, lost an election soundly, while Pres. Bush, who accepted the religious right and did campaign on its issues, won two elections in a row.
>>>>Parker is ignoring the fact that McCain, who rejected the religious right and would not campaign on its issues, lost an election soundly, while Pres. Bush, who accepted the religious right and did campaign on its issues<<<<<<
John McCain was a terrible GOP candidate who became so on the strength of ticket-splitter Huckster Elmer Gantry, who captured 20 to 30 percent of the primary vote right up to the very end. His dependence on Evangelicals was inarguable and acknowledged by Huckster himself.
GWB campaigned in 2000 as “a uniter not a divider” and in 2004 on the basis of the War On Terrorism.
If he was campaigning “the religious right .... and its issues” it was a rather subtle maneuver.
Excellent point!
Exactly — and in McCain we had just about the most atypical “Republican” we could have.... not in the least symathetic to anything or anyone “evangelical” and not at all out front on the “social” (moral) issues. McCain is a defense-oriented conservative, a “progressive” on a lot of economic issues, and decidedly indifferent or non-aggressive on issues of importance to evangelical Christians (nominally pro-life but has never made a big deal of it so far as I know). If there was anything to Parker’s RINO strategy then McCain should have been the ideal candidate.
Every self proclaimed moderate is doing the same, pretending this recently concluded election cycle didn’t test their oh so precious theory that the GOP should become ‘Democratic Party Lite’.
Its not surprising they are the same one’s snipping at Sarah Palin these days. The simple fact is moderates aren’t leaders, they are followers.
Which is why there is no book titled ‘Great moments in Moderate Political History’. Nor will there be.
Kathy Parker is just ensuring she is viable on the DC cocktail circuit, and it does appear she wants a show on MSNBC next year.
Good luck with that Ms Parker. Perhaps you can have that whining, hypocritical, catty Peggy Noonan on with you, right after Olberman and Maddow. In other words, well after prime time - which is appropriate.