I have asked you repeatedly what this post meant and you won’t tell me, what is it about, why did you post it to me? If it was some kind of mistake, or meant for someone else or something, just say so, why are you beating around the bush for post after post?
To: ansel12
You mean a “big tent”?
Big tents are for clowns.
146 posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:32:34 PM by NYCslicker
I would prefer not to engage in some debate over some detail that you find important but that I’ve obviously forgotten about hundreds of posts ago. But in one last attempt to get you to stop berating me with repeated posts, I will try to explain to you the meaning of this post. If you disagree with my explanation, ok. We don’t have to agree. You can call me a liar, whatever. I don’t need to know that you disagree or that you think I’m a liar. Please just let it go after this.
In your post you quoted:
“But some Republican analysts say a Palin endorsement could be a double-edge sword in the crucially important swing state of Florida.
“A Palin endorsement of Rubio gives a boost in the short term because of attention it brings,” said Doug Heye a GOP campaign analyst and a campaign veteran. “It helps Charlie Crist in the long term. To win a primary in a state as large as Florida, a candidate needs a broad base of support within the party. The people who support Palin already support Marco Rubio, and many of the primary voters up for grabs are not Palin supporters.”
This post expresses the view that endorsing Rubio gives Palin short term attention, but helps Charlie Crist in the long term, because she is failing to build “broad based support”. This means the person quoted feels that Palin should cater to broad based support in the Republican party in Florida. This is the view that we need to have a “big tent” (I am not quoting anyone. I am simply using quotation marks to denote that this is a term that is used in general by people.)
The big tent = broad based Republican support as opposed to focused support by conservatives.
My post said we don’t need to have a big tent, a big tent is for clowns.
I am making the point that we do not have to pursue broad-based support in order to be effective as a party.
I hope you can accept this as my opinion whether or not you agree with it and let’s end this particular exchange. Thanks, and I will not be responding to you further, unless you want to talk about something new.