tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208194643616609700.post643902856845020245..comments2023-07-23T06:13:15.729-04:00Comments on Not One Red Cent: The trouble with elitesRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208194643616609700.post-64177657846135883392009-05-21T06:47:57.916-04:002009-05-21T06:47:57.916-04:001) Reagan didn't win because he was conservative, ...1) Reagan didn't win because he was conservative, he won because he wasn't Jimmy Carter. The nation was tired of Carter and desperately wanted to make a change. Any other viewpoint is revisionist history.<br /><br />2) Republicans won in 1994 because they didn't talk about typically "conservative" issues like abortion or "family values." Look at the Contract with America and tell me which of those items you think Crist or McCain would not support. Those principles were not "conservative" they were "American" principles.<br /><br />3) Here is a great example of how a more Conservative candidate is bad for the party: Barry Goldwater.<br /><br />Because Americans, and Floridians, are neither Conservative nor Liberal -- they are MODERATE -- Republicans can not win without Meghan McCain and Charlie Crist Republicans.<br /><br />A "Conservatives-only" party, will have as much power as the WHIGs.Jim Johnsonhttp://www.stateofsunshine.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208194643616609700.post-1528745850709171012009-05-21T06:35:22.083-04:002009-05-21T06:35:22.083-04:00The “recipe for failure” is the Bush/Rove remaking...The “recipe for failure” is the Bush/Rove remaking of the GOP as the party to the left of the Democrats. This is a repeat of what the GOP did from 1934 – 1980 (excluding 1964). The GOP had a similar message then. “We are New Dealers too – only different”. It had a failure rate in Congress of 20:1. It did better at President but still had more defeats than victories. Now the GOP upper house (and it seems the lower house as well) wants to go back to the Echo not a choice platform that was such a decisive loser!<br />Even if you never paid attention in your civics classes in school; look at what the making of the GOP as the “Nanny State” party did in 06 and 08! The Rove/Bush move to the far left – aka “triangulation” is (and always will be_ a disaster. Ignore the NYT. Think for yourselves Republicans! The MSM are not and never have been friends of the GOP! Remember they backed John in 06 + 07; so you nominated him and the GOPP got crushed in 08!<br />If this does not prove that the Bush/Rove liberals running the GOP must go I do not know how it can be proved! I think the best way to get these collectivists to leave is to continue to withhold donations.<br /><br />Rod Stanton<br />Cerritos, CalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com