OK, let’s for the sake of the argument concede your point. How does that justify allowing Barack Obama and the other radical Democrats to severely damage the country? John McCain was never my first choice for president. He is, though, the far lesser of evils. Some people obviously don’t have their priorities straight.
Good grief, David, what on earth did I say to imply I was voting for Obama? Or excusing so-called Republicans who are? There’s some wacky projection going on, and I think it’s part of the general funk we find the Republican Party stuck in.
To recap, I say that the problem we have is two wings in the party that are too busy pursuing their own agenda to get together and agree on a vision to present to the rest of the country, and somehow that is construed as supporting Obama. Huh?
Look, let me try again. Both wings of the Republican party have elements of their platform that attract voters, and both wings have elements that repel voters. The sad, sad part is that the elements that repel voters are unnecessary, but neither wing will take a serious look at what they’re trying to accmplish. (I think Marc Malone’s onto something with his analysis of boomers. To hell with everyone else as long as they get theres, and I think that applies to the boomers within the Republican party as well).
So, here’s my analysis of the flaws in each wing:
Moderates: Too concerned with big business and their own power; willing to make any agreement with liberals in order to send pork to their home districts and corporate patrons. Flaw: skyrocketing spending, stench of corruption, undermines public belief in core conservative message, plays into liberal agitprop about Republicans as enablers of corporate greed at the expense of the little guy.
Social Conservatives: Keep asking voters the wrong question, namely “who do you want telling you how to live your lives, us or them?” Most voters want to answer “nobody – I don’t want any of you degenerate politicians telling me how to live my life. Just fix the damn potholes, put crooks in jail, and keep the nutbar foreigners from shooting at us.” If social conservatives would instead change the question to “do you want government telling you how to live your life?” they would get more votes. But that means making it clear that they would not use political power to push a conservative social agenda. And they don’t need to. If we could just get the government to stop pushing a liberal social agenda, things would self-correct fairly quickly on their own.
Regan got that part right. His deal with social conservatives was that he would get the government to stop attacking them, but he never let the government carry their water for them.
