Absolutely true. But the current media are far more pervasively and overtly aggressive against conservatives, and EVERYONE in the media (including FOX) will be trying to bring Ted down. While Ted is my candidate, I don’t kid myself into thinking his victory will require anything less than a Herculean effort and an unprecedented groundswell of grassroots support.
This is at least the third article on this in a major political publication.
It is a full court press coming from Prince Rebus’ office.
True and decent and intelligent and 100% Americans will vote for a man like Cruz. Those who vote otherwise, whether they know it or not, will be voting for America to continue on the path to disaster.
If this is indeed Cruz’s strategy, it’s very odd.
Really difficult to imagine a campaign that ignores independents and still draws votes from normally Democratic groups.
The reason the conventional wisdom is the conventional wisdom is that it’s right.
The path to victory is to rally the base and pull enough independents to win.
Recent GOP candidates have attempted to appeal to independents while ignoring or denigrating the base. That doesn’t work well.
True, and that election based on national mourning, was the last time the white vote went democrat, and it was only the third time that the democrats won the vote of Protestant America, the other two times being 1932, and 1936.
And the theory was correct!!!, when it was employed by the right person (Reagan). Reagan ran on the exact same issues as Goldwater and won the most lopsided victories in presidential history. A victory given to him by... “the silent majority” Goldwater knew existed, but couldn't get to vote for “him”. You see the man and the message are two different issues. You can agree 100% with what someone is saying and still not like “them” but when the same message is espoused by the “right” person, they will win overwhelmingly.
“George Washington/Abraham Lincoln ticket couldn’t have defeated LBJ less than a year after the Kennedy assassination and Peter knows it.” 2nd div vet comment.
As the unofficial FR historian you should know better.
As a Goldwater active supporter around at the time The conservative values questions raised by Goldwater over the expansion of government were buried and instead he was being portayed by the media that resurrected (ala Gen MacArthur via Truman) was fear (war mongering).
The portrayal; Goldwater was a radical eager to start WWIII ready to drop the A bomb.The infamous little girl commercial pulling a daisy apart. As Johnson’s regime’s continued on with its expansion of government bumper stickers began to appear with the slogan “Don’t Blame Me/ I voted Goldwater” and the conservative movement within the Republican Party began to build traction.
As the Johnson expansion of FDR’s socialist approach began .It became clear that the democrat party was democrat in name only. It turned into a local joke (Chicago) with the wondering how Goldwater lost because of the number of vehicles sporting the “Don’t Blame Me” bumper sticker.
Up to that point there wasn’t a dimes worth of difference between the two partys and voters who for the most part were (as today) encouraged to vote for the republicans to keep the other guys honest. A viewpoint held then as now by mainly the eastern establisment republicans (whom I call GOPES, rhymes with dopes, gop elite ststists) which was demonstrated by the recent congressional vote .