60% of the American people describe themselves as “conservative” year after year.

Now that is one bigassed lie.

So….what you’re saying is that if we promise to pay black people’s water bill, power bill and rent, they’ll vote for us?
JadeNYU on March 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM

Nah, I’m pretty sure TNC is jus’ sayin’ you frontin’ when you say this is a center right nation.
;)

To say that we don’t appeal to indies, swing voters and moderates is silly! We ran the dream candidate of those groups, John McCain, and he lost.
Jenfidel on March 12, 2009 at 3:50 PM

The Democrats went from running candidates from the far left-wing of the Democrat Party to running an ultra left-wing radical – and look where it got them. If you took every Presidential election since Kennedy, you’d see that the most radical liberal Democrats, and the most conservative Republicans always do better than moderates of their own parties.

The handful of semi-smart leftists in America are trying to convince us that if we run somebody just a teeny bit more ‘centrist’ then McCain was, we’ll do better next time. The complete moonbat libtards like this guy are hoping we’ll form a new party more Communist than the Maoists and more Socialist than the Nazis – so he can finally quit paying lip service to that poser Obama.

strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 4:15 PM

So….what you’re saying is that if we promise to pay black people’s water bill, power bill and rent, they’ll vote for us?

I’m pretty sure vote buying is supposed to be illegal.

But these guys think that they are America. They delude themselves with that “center-right nation” analysis, and then mask their losses by claiming they didn’t really lose. They think the problem is their wardrobe, their slang, their hairstyle. This is what black folks call Project-Bougie or–more aptly put–just plain trifling. The GOP is out shopping for a new dining set, a new couch, a flat-screen–anything to make the crib look a little more inviting. Meanwhile the water bill is two months past due. The lights are off. And the eviction notice is in the mail.

Alas, the republican party platform is incompatible with being articulated in a fashion that appeals to independents, swing voters and moderates.
So what do you do now?

strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 3:39 PM

Tell that to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan who won election or reelection by huge margins articulating the GOP platform.
To say that we don’t appeal to indies, swing voters and moderates is silly!
We ran the dream candidate of those groups, John McCain, and he lost.
The only reason he didn’t lose by much more was because Sarah Palin brought in as much of the Conservative base as she could being the VP candidate.
We should never sell out our core principles to appeal to those in the squishy middle. Never.
60% of the American people describe themselves as “conservative” year after year.
Our victory plan is to go after this conservative bloc as keenly as possible in every election.

Shall we play again?
strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 3:35 PM

The “I’m a bigger libtard slogan-shouter game?”

Dude, we conceded that title to you after your first post. What do you want, an award ceremony?

Steele should be articulating the Republican party platform in a way that these unaffiliated or swing voters can understand.

Alas, the republican party platform is incompatible with being articulated in a fashion that appeals to independents, swing voters and moderates.
So what do you do now?

Even if you disagree, you will have to adapt to the new truth.
chunderroad on March 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Soon maybe we all will. But not quite yet.

I can’t feel – let alone argue with – your sentiment. But of course that’s not what was “ruled” in the case. That was the uuber-liberal judgment that informally wrote a Forced Bussing Amendment into the Constitution.

According to Whitehouse.gove, that is what was ruled. Even if you disagree, you will have to adapt to the new truth. This is ho the establishment talks about Brown v. Board.

Brown v. Board of Education ruled that the segregation and humiliation of an entire race could no longer be the official law of the land.
chunderroad on March 12, 2009 at 2:45 PM

I can’t feel – let alone argue with – your sentiment. But of course that’s not what was “ruled” in the case. That was the uuber-liberal judgment that informally wrote a Forced Bussing Amendment into the Constitution.

I don’t know how many people have actually read that case, but the first time I did I just shook my head all the way through. It was complete gibberish.

Then I re-read it, undertaking the liberal assumption that black people are congenitally inferior to white people. And all of a sudden – within that bizarre frame of reference – every word in it made absolutely perfect sense.

We all make fun of liberals for being “idiots,” “fools,” dumbasses,” etc.. And of course we are always right to do so. But the fact is that some of the very smartest among them are almost as intelligent as a normal person is. Sadly though, even those relatively brilliant moonbats can’t ever come up with an idea that makes any damned sense. Even when they don’t appear to suffer from gross neurological disfunction — their heads are just screwed on ass-backwards.

You guys made Steele RNC chair to attract moderates and independents, then when he tries to do that, you keelhaul him under the SS Conservative Titanic.

strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 2:38 PM

Steele should be articulating the Republican party platform in a way that these unaffiliated or swing voters can understand. He should also be developing a strategy to consolidate a grassroots effort and upgrade the GOP’s technological operations. The party volunteer efforts have not been shored up since 2000 under Karl Rove.

Instead, Steele is drying up RNC donations by antagonizing the base and making a fool of himself by underestimating the intelligence of undecideds. They at least recognize talking points.

Right.
Brown vs Board, Loving vs Virginia.

strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 2:36 PM

Brown v. Board of Education ruled that the segregation and humiliation of an entire race could no longer be the official law of the land. It would be a 14th amendment violation. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, while stating publicly that we must all “respect” Judicial Branch rulings, strongly disagreed with the ruling. Privately, he wondered, “What’s wrong with ‘separate but equal’?

This was the popular thinking of the Dixiecrats, who until Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, were the predominant sentiment of the Democratic party who were behind Jim Crowe laws.

1. You cannot be the party of freedom and individual liberty when you deny freedom to minority citizens of the Republic. Federalism is just localized mob rule. Citizens have rights whether they live in appalachia or not.

The federal government cannot determine when life begins. Obama admitted this was above his pay grade. According to biologists and conservatives alike, life begins when an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the moment of conception. The federal government does not have the authority to subsidize abortion or even potentially legitimize murder. Therefore, per the the 10th amendment, it is an issue for the states. It’s not mob rule; It’s the letter of the law.

logis on March 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Right.
Brown vs Board, Loving vs Virginia.

You cannot be the party of freedom and individual liberty when you deny freedom to minority citizens of the Republic. Federalism is just localized mob rule. Citizens have rights whether they live in appalachia or not.
strangelet on March 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Excellent point: the pro-slavery wing of the Republican party is a very, very bad thing.

But you’re overlooking the one tiny detail that liberals always leave out of their analyses: absolutely nothing that you believe about how the world works actually exists.