Posted on 05/02/2009 2:33:13 PM PDT by lewisglad
So who wants to be a member of the big spenders party owned and operated off of wall street. This story says 12+ percentage see the GOP as Democrat lite.
They should ask who sees themselves as CONSERVATIVES or ask for their opinion on specific issues.
Most of America is right wing... they just don’t know it yet.
Another nonsensical ‘analysis’ of the Republicans in 2009, this one from Mark Shields who is no friend of the party.
Not a credible source or analyst.
“Hurl alert”? If Republicans don’t recognize that they’re turning into a regional party and do something about it they’ll never recover. This doesn’t mean compromising on our core fiscal values, which should be able to have as much appeal in Connecticut as in Utah, but it does mean eschewing messages like Sarah Palin’s “pro-America areas” of the country comment.
You get a good, deadly flu epidemic underway and those dots are toast!
frequently quoted, while polling showing that the generic congressional ballot now shows R43%-D41% and is ignored. That said, I agree an idea that is more inclusive, as formulated by Gerald Ford, certainly an establishment Republican, " The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything that you have," is a good starting place.
And the Dems advantage in party affiliation percentages has eroded since the November vote, down by 2.6% since December. Some Obama followers are finally looking beyond “hope and change” and are not quite so thrilled as during 2008:
I thought Mark Shields was dead....killed in a violent crash with total stone-cold obscurity, in a Prius driven by Eleanor Clift.
In 2006 and especially 2008, even many of those “vast stretches” went to the Democrats. And the entire Northeast and mid-Atlantic region is not a “small dot.”
I usually see the figure 21% cited for the number of people who identify themselves as Republicans. We’ve seen enough polls that have been manipulated to know that the numbers can’t be trusted too far, but even if the numbers are right, that means nearly half the people in the country don’t identify with either major party.
If the cotton picking machine hadn't been invented in the 1950s this wouldn't have happened.
They party i.d. numbers have change considerably in Republicans’ favor since Obama and the Dems won. The parties are even again now. But dem polsters still use the old numbers as does this author calling for Republican liberalism.
Very few. There are now no Republican congressmen in New England, and only three (out of 29) in New York. New Hampshire, only recently strongly Republican, is now almost completely run by Democrats. Likewise Virginia has seen a significant shift--if we can't win Fairfax County we probably can't win America.
Exactly. And there are lots of fiscal—but not social or cultural—conservatives in the Northeast. Many of these used to be Republicans, but what did they get for it? Some of the fastest spending growth in decades under Bush? I’m not surprised they abandoned the party if the Republicans are little different than the Democrats on fiscal issues, and they lean Democratic on other issues anyway.
And Dems sawed off the South a long time ago.
Right. So Republican numbers have gone up since the election for some reason. Maybe it is just that Obama and the Democrats have scared the heck out of people and the slow road to hell offered by the rinos is better than the fast road to Obama’s Utopian hell.
Couldn’t you find anything from Pravda?
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