Posted on 05/21/2010 7:36:19 PM PDT by Christian Cage
Democrats had more reason than Republicans to be happy with primary results this week. In the only contest between the two parties, Democrat Mark Critz defeated Republican Tim Burns by a 53-46 vote for the seat of the late Rep. John Murtha.
The defeat of five-term Arlen Specter by the dynamic Joe Sestak, will increase the odds the Pennsylvania Senate seat will be retained by Democrats this fall.
While Conservatives were elated by the wide 24 point margin won by Rand Paul for the Republican nomination to the Senate in Kentucky, the seat is already held by Republicans.
What is increasingly clear is that Republicans do not have a fresh positive message for the electorate. Their opposition to President Obama and his Health Care Reform will motivate their base in primary contests, but they need to broaden their appeal to win Independents.
What conservatives need is a fresh cause, one that will appeal to both social conservatives committed to strengthening families - and economic conservatives who want to cut federal spending.
Marriage could be that issue.
Republicans control 49 of the 50 Congressional seats with the highest rates of married people, and Democrats, all 50 seats with the highest percentage of the never-married.
Therefore, I suggest a three-part strategy to strengthen marriage: reduce divorce by reforming No Fault Divorce, reward the responsible spouse, and increase the marriage rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at virtueonline.org ...
Here's the key quote from the article:
"The current system gives the man an incentive not to get married because he knows that if things are not going well, she can file for divorce and get the kids and generous child support," says Ron Grignol, of Defending Our Father's House, a Catholic group.
"The person who files for divorce, without an allegation of fault, would be considered "irresponsible," and would have to accept less property and less child custody than the more responsible parent. That would give men an incentive to marry, and preserve more marriages."
None of these bills has become law, but they demonstrate how to make marriage a fresh issue.
Dems think they are on top of the world
End Corporate welfare in all its forms!
That would even appeal to moderates and libs I bet.
Banking and the generation of money, and the federal reserve. If the dems figure that one out before we do, nothing else we could be right about will matter.
They do. And this ass inspects himself daily, and loves what he sees...
Conservatives don’t need to go looking for ‘causes.’ Conservative principles should be constant and timeless. Republicans can go do what ever they want.
For every liberal issue, there is an equal and opposite conservative issue.
How about Save My 401K?
Exactly. Its the dims that have to keep things in constant turmoil and crisis.
Let’s be the party of responsibility, steady hand at the till.
The electorate doesn't like health care, illegal immigration, nationalization of industries and incessant supplication to every two-bit nation on the planet. If the Republicans grow some fleshy spheroids, they will clean their clocks.
How many grants and loans and stuff have gone to companies owned by husbands and wives of people working for Obama?
There was that window company that Stossel brought up.
You mean besides defending the US Constitution and American philosophy and culture?
Hmmmmm...
Well said.
Why do conservatives need a fresh issue, why not take care of existing issues?
I guess losing our national sovereignty and 10% unemployment is too stale.
Far too narrow of an issue specifically considering those who have been burned in some way by the sub-issues you mention. Broader economic issues like debt, taxation, etc, hit everyone. It is a matter of personalizing the message.
How about actually undoing all bad laws, undoing all bad legislation, and ending the creation of very bad solutions to all issues, no matter how old/new they are, and then actually replacing them with decent, commonsense, free market, conservative laws, legislation, and solutions on all issues, from now on? As an example, if ObamaCare really can’t be undone, then what’s the point in campaigning as a conservative with solutions to a variety of issues? Ditto, with the ongoing problems of: taxes, entitlement programs, big government, over-regulations, the national debt, illegal immigration, lack of a federal balanced budget, activist judges, political correctness in all of its forms,...?
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