#104 — ” If the country is not buying your opinion, you don’t change your opinion just to gain political office.”
Strawman much? That sure would have been a spiffy response if I’d said that. There’s such a thing as not having an opinion as an official position. It’s not the same thing as renouncing it. Nice try though.
Read the following. Then I’ll get back to you.
#108 — “Abortion is not a make-or-break issue for most American voters.”
Social issues in the aggregate ARE the difference maker and on the opposite side. Let’s see, how many people did the GOP lose because of stem cell policy? Probably most of the life science community. How about abortion? Probably a lot of folks scared of a potential supreme court justice changeover. There’s another few hundred thousand. Gays? Heh. There went a couple of million votes down the toilet. Enough votes to have swung the last election? Probably.
More importantly and to the point which you simply refuse to address, the younger crowd isn’t being attracted; they are overwhelmingly democrat voters. Social issues aren’t what will draw them in. In fact, social issues paint the entire GOP as anti-intellectual, anti-choice, and so on. Just throwing this out there, but the perception of an anti-intellectual bent is probably not a good thing to have as a starting position in wooing voters in colleges and universities.
#104 Redux
Did you grasp the concept discussed here of attracting NEW voters, particularly the students? Do you understand that as the social conservatives die off that what replaces their numbers are democrat voters?
Rather than attempting to lecture me about what you presume to be “the base,” how about you address the student issue as per the topic. Forget the dwindling and dying “base” and concentrate on the students. I’d like to hear how you’d convince college students to vote GOP vis a vis social conservative issues.
#108 — “Most of us got that when we read the article. But others seemed to think Grabar was equating abortion on demand with the freedom to live.”
Hey, it’s crayon time in the echo chamber again. My favourite.
A) Grabar talked about students, about gaining votes.
B) I talked about students. I don’t agree with her and spelt out why.
C) You have blathered about your personal feelings re abortion and the existing social conservative constituency.
Which one of these thing is not like the others?
