Posted on 06/06/2013 9:53:31 AM PDT by neverdem
When will the GOP strategists get a clue?
The current crop, never. They're all about providing cheap labor to their globalist masters. If they'd be about decent opportunity and jobs for the white and established minority middle class, the Obama Party wouldn't even be in the running.
IMO, all the RATs need to do is to go forward with their voter fraud and voter suppression, e.g., 20012, which the GOP has left unchecked and not investigated nor prosecuted!
“When will the GOP Strategists get a clue?”
They won’t.
2016 Electoral Map is pure awful. There are enough dumb-low information voters in Electoral swing states to carry the day, regardless. The fact Hillary Clinton can still be talked about as a serious candidate even after her ties to the Benghazi scandal shows the dire state of Electoral Politics in this country.
Until conservatives do a better job articulating conservative principles to the populace, this will be the norm for some time to come.
The beltway GOP doesn’t care. There are no patriots in the leadership. They are content with the status quo for the next 3 years. 2016 and beyond the GOP “plan” is to marginalize conservatives and try to be a “centrist” party with the Dems on the left.
Not when Bonehead and Cantor and Rubio help pass amnesty.
For the Democrats to target this group of voters is about as ideologically consistent with their agenda of the past several decades as if Barry Goldwater in 1964 had made a big push to get Socialists and Communists to vote for him. Their hope is to fool people with nice sounding slogans when everything the Democrats actually do is contrary both to the values and to the economic wellbeing of these voters.
The Democrats will offer them free stuff. That oughta do the trick.
Current blue collar Democrat voters are like Southern Conservatives of the 70’s who had voted a straight Democrat ticket forever, just like their pappies and their grandpappies. They came to realize the the Democrat Party did not represent their interests, their beliefs, or their convictions. They left and have not come back. If the Republicans are to overcome this Liberal/Progressive/Commie juggernaut, they must to the same with the midwest and east coast blue collar, salt of the earth type and they can - if they want to.
translation: We here at the Democrat Party don’t have another Barack Hussein Obama to pull out of our arse who can turn out minority voters at historically unprecedented levels.
“When will the GOP Strategists get a clue?
The current crop, never. They’re all about providing cheap labor to their globalist masters. If they’d be about decent opportunity and jobs for the white and established minority middle class, the Obama Party wouldn’t even be in the running. “
B U M P
"Unprecedented Republican obstruction and sabotage of the normal processes of American political life"? Well I would agree that there has been obstruction and sabotage of the normal processes of American political life, but it's Obama and the 'Rat Pack who are doing it - from the passage of the abominable Obamacare in the dead of night via bribery to the outrages of abuse of power that are coming to light just about every day. Not to mention the pro-Islamist, anti-Western foreign policy.
It's not hard to figure out which side of the political divide the writers of the posted article are on! But they do give us some hope when express doubts about the 'Rats' future electoral success.
There’s a LOT of “working class” whites who aren’t working and are sucking up entitlements.
They provided the swing votes in 2012 in my view.
The Democrats give the Republicans alot more credit for derailing their progressive/commie schemes than many here at FR do.
Ultimately, I think Reagan got the votes of what came to be called Reagan Democrats by imposing sanctions on Japan. I suspect something similar will have to happen with respect to China and other countries with which we have sizable trade deficits. The GOP needs to show voters that it is not the party of plutocrats. Reagan put in protective trade barriers on semiconductors, cars, motorcycles and machine tools - all highly visible industries that employ masses of people. It is possible to dislike the UAW without hoping for Detroit's destruction. Ultimately, Bush had sounder political instincts than Romney in pushing through a financial bailout for Detroit. Romney crusaded against Detroit's rescue and that ultimately sank his candidacy. The optics of a multimillionaire pushing for the destruction of hundreds of thousands jobs many Americans aspire towards were simply not good - whites stayed home in droves, to the extent that the black turnout exceeded white turnout by 10% in 2012.
By pushing amnesty, the GOP is not only killing its future by importing tens of millions of Democrat-leaning voters - it's driving white turnout even further down, by showing white voters that it not only wants their jobs to go abroad; it also want to replace them with foreign workers right at home.
“In the months since the 2012 elections it has become apparent that the victorious Democratic coalition Obama assembled is still not sufficiently large to overcome the unprecedented Republican obstruction and sabotage of the normal processes of American political life.”
How dare you express dissent, you saboteurs, you. We’ll obstruct your applications for non-profit status to keep you from these counterrevolutionary obstructions. You are the enemas of the people.
“Ultimately, I think Reagan got the votes of what came to be called Reagan Democrats by imposing sanctions on Japan.”
I hate to tell you, Japan was hardly on the voters’ minds in 1980. The Iranian hostages, the Soviets in Afghanistan, economic disasters, a soaring crime rate, and smug Democrats too long in power and out of touch created that tsunami. It had nothing to do with Japan.
I'm referring to 1984, when the economy was just starting to emerge from the 1982 economic slump. Reagan's first term was related to the national security issues, but the 49 state sweep in 1984 was when Reagan Democrats made their voice heard. Reagan got 51% of the popular vote in 1980, and 59% of the popular vote in 1984.
They did nothing but obstruct Bush. Back then dissent to the President was called “patriotic”.
They’ve come up with a workaround — massive unemployment, forced early retirements, and Death Panels. Thanks justiceseeker93.
Democrats own the domestic spying issue and the GOP should call it as such. The fact that Democrats are speaking up on this issue tells you all you need to know. Moreso, the Democrat stance on school vouchers, homosexual marriage and even gun control are urban wedge issues, particularly among blacks. Blacks get that they need fathers back in their communities. The GOP needs a more effective urban outreach program and asap.
Toss in Obamacare and single young people, along with a lot of soccer moms, also become reachable. Future elections are going to count on being able to poach voters. The GOP is making a mistake abandoning the urban vote. That's where people live and people vote.
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