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November 07, 2007
Hillary Clinton's Republican base
Kentucky politics normally don't interest me, but from what I've seen of the governor's race there, Ernie Fletcher is what I'd call a "Hillary Clinton Republican" -- shrill, anti-gay, Ten Commandment wielding, and easily-stereotyped. Just what Hillary wants to run against. While they might be popular with the WorldNetDaily crowd (which likes to call itself the Republican "base") the messages these candidates push simply don't resonate well with ordinary voters. Yet the GOP as a whole seems incapable of learning it. Naturally, this makes me wonder to what extent the goal of this so-called "base" is actually to win elections, or to welcome their electoral doom. Once again, it's all too easy to say "you'd think they'd learn." If losing is a strategy, though, they've learned plenty. MORE: Of course, voter disgust works both ways. In the County Commisioner election I mentioned yesterday, running against Bush worked about as well for local Democrats as running against homos did for the Kentucky GOP. (They lost.) posted by Eric on 11.07.07 at 06:49 PM |
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Naturally, this makes me wonder to what extent the goal of this so-called "base" is actually to win elections, or to welcome their electoral doom.
There's hardly a day that goes by where I don't question this. Granted the pro-gun part of the base is generally not too enthralled with the "anti-gay, Ten Commandment wielding" contingent, but we have our own quirks and problems. I think, from a gun blogger's prospective, the big thing we don't recognize is that the activists are small minority, and to win, you have to bring a lot of like minded people into your tent, but a lot of those like minded people will vary in intensity. A lot of gun folks are more concerned with keeping the movement ideologically pure, than in seeing it win. I'll take a person that agrees with me on concealed carry and so called "assault weapons", but might not be as passionate about machine gun rights as being on my side. More than a few would boot that person out of the movement for not being sufficiently pure.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'm open to suggestions. I think all political movements struggle with the balance between activists and non-activists.