Clean air is a non-issue. The only time it comes up in my area is when the air stagnates and the authorities issue a burn ban. Then I can’t build a fire in my woodstove. My other points still stand though. The GOP has changed a great deal since Nixon. You could also say that the GOP is against Yippies disrupting political conventions, and would be today as well, if that was an issue. But in the end, you aren’t saying much.
Come on, just reference the posts. We don’t need the whole “I don’t have time” deal. We all have lives outside of CAF and you don’t have to explain leaving.
Gingrich and Santorum split an already split conservative vote and Romney had the money and the backing of the establishment. I even think the democrat elite wanted him to win the nomination due to Occupy Wall Street.
If 3 million conservatives really did sit at home, those candidates could defeated Barack Hussien Obama if they had held independents.
That analysis is somewhat flawed (at least incomplete) and used by the elite to keep him from getting the nomination and elected. Santorum lost big because he was running a blue state and people were mad over the Iraq War.Santorum lost his last Senate race by double digits - yet somehow he could win a national election???
As do I.
This is a poll for the 2016 republican New Hampshire primary.
You seem to be saying that the Republican party should have nominated a conservative candidate instead of a moderate candidate. I am assuming you think that a conservative candidate would have energized the Republican base to get out and vote, and that would have more than offset any Independent voters who would not vote for a conservative.
That would be my question too, going all the way back to the early 1900’s. Maybe some cosmetic surgery along the way, but still basically the same ideology.
I think this is what some would like others to believe, but as I posted earlier, the GOP has changed a great deal in the past 40 years. So far I haven’t seen any comments on the substance of my post other than the idea that since Republicans today don’t want to repeal the Clean Air Act passed by Nixon, the party is exactly the same today as it was under Nixon.
In 1964, Barry Goldwater was the Republican nominee for President. Was he all that different from some of the conservative Republicans of today.
No, I’m saying the Republican party should have nominated the candidate that best represented their values. His campaign in the primaries was totally negative. The voters weren’t buying into Governor Romney’s views, because he wasn’t articulating them; he was slamming his competition. I believe that Governor Romney didn’t have true supporters, just people that saw him as the least worst choice because they believed the ads. Ads that others couldn’t compete with because lack of money.
To some extent that’s true, especially when they lose power. Or gain power, for that matter.
I’m not sure how he differed from the southern Democrats.
It would have.
Independents vote on economics unless we are losing a major foreign war.
The democrats have the same issues.
Not if his/her economic/health care policies work!
The problem with Roe is that it is fundamentally unconstitutional. However, a plurality of Americans will support abortion in limited cases.
Do you agree with Mulligan that social conservatives would fair poorly in a national election?
No, because elections are usually about economics more than anything else. In 2014 and 2016 I can pretty much promise you that not too people are going to be thinking about condoms, gay rights or abortion.
Because their knowledge is somewhat limited.
Yes. He was for abortion rights and remained consistent on this throughout his political career. He was a social liberal. Of course its hard to compare the Goldwater of 1964 with the Republicans of more recent times. Gay marriage wasn’t an issue until fairly recently. Abortion was an issue at the state level prior to Roe V Wade but it certainly wasn’t the national hot button issue it is today.
Whose knowledge is limited?