If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?
Since this is comment 223, I doubt I can add much that hasn’t been said. I will say this, however; What Rick proposes is demonstrably not a winning strategy.
Think, now… what did the Democrats do to win this most recent election?
They went to their base, that’s what. Every move the Republicans made was a reason for a press conference highlighted by leftists screaming and gnashing their teeth over whatever. For years, they cast Bush as the bad guy, the Republicans as the anti-American, and relentlessly pushed their core leftist values. They weren’t accepting their moderates… they pushed them out. Consider Joe Lieberman, as a prime example. And the won the WH and the Congress and a mess of the statehouses as a direct result of this luunge to the base.
Meanwhile, we get people trying to get us to disown our base.
So, not only is the issue that the moderates aren’t tolerating the conservatives, but the moderates have demonstrably pushed us into a losing strategy.
No, Rick, Sorry. Being “Democrat Lite” isn’t the answer. And the proof of that is sitting in the White House just now. That’s the point I made on the ‘principles’ article I ran here a couple weeks ago.
