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June 10, 2009
Base Money
I just don't know where to start. So how about I try to start with the beginning. Mike Huckabee wants to move the the "mushy middle" out of the Republican Party. Some argue that Republicans have lost Congress and the White House because they've turned the party over to social and religious conservatives, driving away moderates and independents. Huckabee made precisely the opposite argument.Huckabee is right when he says conservatism is popular. But is it social conservatism that is the winner? Or economic conservatism. Well big spender social conservative Huckabee (who was rightly questioned about his conservative creds) has come down on the side of economic conservatism. Yip e. Nice try Mike. But how can we actually trust you when you didn't walk the walk? One good thing I can say about Mike. When he puts his finger to the wind he can read its direction accurately. When it comes to Sarah Palin I must say that her team doesn't even know if there is a wind. Kathleen Parker says the Palin team is inept in handling her scheduling. That may be so but it is not the worst thing they are doing to her. Sarah is being positioned wrong. Her libertarian governance rather than her social conservative personal life should be her image. Why is that? Well let us look at Party Politics and see if a conclusion is possible. Don't worry. I've made up my mind on this a long time ago. And to get what is wrong with the Party we must look at how the electorate is changing. The Wall Street Journal has a look at what is going on with the electorate. Independents hold the balance of power in the Obama era. That's the conclusion of a recent, 165-page Pew Research Center survey that shows independent voters climbed to 39% from 30% of the electorate in the five months following the 2008 election. During that same time, Democratic identification fell to 33% from 39%, while Republicans fell four points to 22% -- their lowest since post-Watergate.The Republican Party is obviously in free fall. I also covered this in Playing To An Ever Shrinking Base. The electorate is going independent, libertarian. Fiscally conservative, socially moderate. Which is how Sarah governs. So what are the geniuses of her team doing? Amping up her socon creds. At least Mike Huckabee is smart enough to shift with the wind and go against his past. And Sarah? Going in the other direction and also trying to hide her past. That is nuts. And why do I think this is happening the way it is? I think Sara is going after base money and Huckabee is going after national votes. OK enough of candidates. What does the Republican Party have to do? Get right with God. Start living up to their economic conservative principles. Religiously. What ever happened to the small government Party? Small government is another principle the Republican Party should stick to. Religiously. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 06.10.09 at 08:29 PM
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Come on now, M. she has spent most of the last 6 months fighting the brain dead equivalent Alaskan equivalents of those folk in Illinois, that saddled the party with Keyes. The one national event, she talked up the states resources and missile defense, as much as her avowed topic of the life issue. narciso · June 10, 2009 11:53 PM narciso, I'm not aware of her fighting the Alan Keyes faction of the Party for the last 6 months. Although I haven't been paying as close attention as I did during the election. You got a link? I may have to write something. Because: I ♥ Sarah'cudda M. Simon · June 10, 2009 11:59 PM You could go to Conservatives4Palin, and go through the fights with Ramras, and Hawker, the pro-stimulus, anti oil unless it's an Exxon/Conoco monopoly. Their mouthpieces in Halcro, retired, and Fagan, who's more of a Michael Savage type, without the charm. narciso · June 11, 2009 12:39 AM I went to C4P and couldn't find anything of interest on the branding of Palin. Do you have something specific? M. Simon · June 11, 2009 06:43 AM "The Alan Keyes faction of the Party," in partnership with the WND faction, do not want the Republican Party to win. They are more than uncompromising; they see all compromise as a form of treason. As to why don't they form a third party (or simply join the Constitution Party), it's easy: no one pays attention to third parties. I think they prefer to portray themselves as "the Republican base," in the hope that they'll be believed, and have influence way out of proportion to numbers. Above all, they do not want the GOP to win; experience has shown them that they do better -- especially financially -- with the Republicans out of power than in power. They won't admit it, but Barack Obama really suits them just fine. (Naturally, they claim the Tea Party movement is "theirs" -- much as the SWP and the RCP always try to claim grass roots movements on the left.) Eric Scheie · June 11, 2009 07:51 AM http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/conor-clark-doubles-down-on-ignorance.html http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/oil-rebounds-governor-urges-continued.html http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/governor-palin-on-obamas-health-care.html http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/obama-wants-to-read-terrorists-their.html http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/04/on-stimulus-alaska-and-soul-of-nation.html narciso · June 11, 2009 08:25 AM Eric, I belong to a base mobilizer e-mail group and their complaint is that the funding is drying up. Maybe the people who have been sending them money are tired of losing. M. Simon · June 11, 2009 10:58 AM narciso, I missed the notice first time around this morning. My apologies for taking so long to do the approval. M. Simon · June 11, 2009 03:42 PM Eric, the WMD, oops, WND faction of the Republican Party is a tiny enclave of losers headquartered in Cave Junction, Oregon. Oh, the strange bedfellows they keep, for the money. Frank · June 11, 2009 11:10 PM Frank, I used to like to go nude swimming on the Yuba River when ever I passed by on a hot day. And now I find out I'm a closet homosexual? Wait until my wife hears about this. Is she ever going to be surprised. M. Simon · June 11, 2009 11:45 PM Frank, I actually took my girlfriend (later wife - same one I have now) nude swimming on the Yuba River. Does that mean she is a lesbian? Am I ever going to be surprised. M. Simon · June 11, 2009 11:50 PM M. Simon: The Michael Savage connection is the most interesting. Savage has hinted at a friendship with Brown, implying he's had dinner with him, and even contributed to his election campaign. Brown regularly appears on Savage's radio show, while more cautious politicians treat Savage as a pariah. Given Savage's almost daily vitriol aimed at homosexuals, his rigid conservatism, and his Orthodox Jewish background, why would he befriend a very liberal Catholic pol whose stated policies are antithetical to everything he says he believes? My guess is that they have something in common that transcends politics, something they had to overcome at some point in their lives so that they could live with the strictures of their religious upbringing. Frank · June 12, 2009 10:49 AM Frank, That is exactly why politicizing sex is a bad thing. It just encourages deception. M. Simon · June 12, 2009 10:56 AM Post a comment
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I tend to vote Republican but have never been a member of the party. I could be if they really became the small government, low-tax party they used to claim to be. The problem with the Republicans is they are dominated in the leadership positions by the inside-the-beltway Establishment Republicans, the squishy types who are likely to make deals with Democrats on taxes and spending. They should be embracing the tea party ideas. If they do, I guarantee a return to power and if they stick to those principles of the tea parties, they will stay in power a long time.