#31 — We gave you the very freedoms which you now use to against us.
Check your meds, pal. You’re channeling a Jack Nicholson character.
#36 — I feel there’s untapped voting base among older immigrants (especially Asians) who are reliably religious or conservatives but tend to stay in their own little cultural island.
The problem is that the left has been adept at painting the republicans as anti-minority because of immigration issues. The recent tea party stuff (much lauded here) did little to alleviate this; in fact, the media focusing on “secure the borders” signs etc put a big exclamation mark on it. The one tea party message that succeeded in getting out was that republicans are anti-immigrant.
Unless and until somebody focuses these things such that protests are about taxes or fiscal issues only, this will not help unpaint that image. It pretty much begs the question of whether or not any of the organisers were capable of thinking this stuff through (the answer? no.)
What will save the party, and by that I mean the ONLY thing, is for the party to cease and desist social issue stuff and concentrate on that which *all* voters can identify with.
Which leads me to –
#5 — The dims won’t tolerate pro-life speakers at their convention even when they aren’t talking about that subject.
That’s because the management of the left isn’t stupid enough to let people natter about social stuff. You can’t win on social issues; most of these are about a 50/50 split and do nothing more than needlessly divide people. My only question is why this is so hard for you to grasp. (Unlike most Pajama posters, at least you’re smart enough to ask the question, so take heart. There is hope for you.) It seems that Ms. Rubin has finally gotten the point. If only the GOP leadership will listen, there’s a chance the GOP can win.
