The GOPe has no plan to win, other than to do nothing and hope that everyone will just vote for the GOP because they aren’t the Democrats. That is, right now, their only plan.
The Democrats, on the other hand, spend every week trying to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Bill, talking about Hobby Lobby to women’s groups, promising to raise the minimum wage (and putting it on the ballot in every state), and promising action on “Social Issues” to their base. They are working hard to rile-up their base and give independent voters actual REASONS to vote for them in December. They are going to fight until their last breath to keep every seat.
The GOPe has decided to make personal stories out of campaigns. Why? because they have never been able to get out of 1950s campaign mode - the mentality that what everyone wants to vote for is the guy who grew up on a farm/worked in a factory/started a business/served in the military. Let me cue you in on something: this stopped working twenty years ago. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gives a flat-out DAMN what your personal story is. They want to know where you stand on the issues, and what your plan is. NOBODY is buying the story that the rich GOP candidate is just a misunderstood, average Joe. They are rolling their eyes, and then listening to Democrat commercials making them promises of lots and lots of stuff. NO INDEPENDENT VOTER THINKS YOU’RE MORE QUALIFIED FOR THE SENATE ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU FLIPPED BURGERS IN COLLEGE, “just like them.” This is NOT 1950, dammit, and EVERY poll shows the GOP “strategy” is failing EPICALLY.
The GOP has spent all primary season demonizing and attacking Conservative voters, the Tea Party, and favored Conservative candidates. They have never made a single, even tiny effort to mend fences this year. While Democrats are promising war on behalf of their base to address their issues, the GOP is busy whispering their “100 Days Plan” to each other - a running list of Chamber of Commerce issues sure to make their big donors salivate, without even the smallest red meat for Grassroots Conservatives to chew on. They are literally not offering ANYTHING to the largest group of base voters out there - nothing on Traditional Family Issues, nothing Pro-Life, nothing on Religious Freedom, nothing on gun issues, nothing on fighting illegal immigration, nothing on fighting vote fraud, nothing on repealing Obamacare. Our issues are totally and completely PURGED from their docket.
I’m not surprised they’re on the verge of losing the Senate in November. I actually think they’re stupid enough to believe that they just need to “stay the course” and not do or say anything controversial for the ENTIRE rest of the campaign season. What will surprise me is if they win the Senate at all.
Let me repeat: While the Democrats are promising to go down fighting on every issue their base cares about, the GOP won’t touch any of their base’s issues. The Democrats are talking about issues to independent voters, while the GOP is running cut-and-paste, 100-year-old, worn-out attack ads (and personal story ads) that don’t excite anyone.
This is why they are the Stupid Party. This is why they lose.
A simple plan of running to repeal Obamacare, improving the crappy economy, running against amnesty, and for a competent national security policy could win running away.
But the idiot Beltway consultants running these campaigns do not get it.
Post of the Day. Hands down.
Maybe even Post of the 2014 Election Season.
You, my FRiend, may have just articulated the most dead-on analysis I’ve read of exactly what is horribly wrong with today’s Republican party and why it (and, by extension, the enitre nation) continues to lose so badly. Your post should be required reading for every single GOP consultant, but of course they’re all so stupid, inept, and incompetent that they’d immediately dismiss it and continue embracing their failed status quo.
Yep, basically what it’s all come down to is the Demonic Dems are ruthlessly working toward total victory (fully implementing communism/statism) and annhilating all opposition, while the gutless, spineless Republican establishment is simply giddy just to even be at the dance.