Republicans Pay Price For Anger They Created
The political twists and turns over the past months among those who wish to deny working coalitions in Congress to deal with the complex issues facing our nation, or to deny President Obama a smoother time in office, took a rocky turn this weekend. This past summer the Republican Party, including many of their most visible and controversial members, strongly encouraged and organized grass-root conservatives to rally and protest. That anger was amplified by the media, and as a result proved that there was more smoke than real substance among those who gathered at town hall meetings and vented.
The Republican Party thought that by using these loud unruly forces over the summer they could undo the loftier plans of the Democratic White House and Congress. What the GOP could not have envisioned is that those who had such sharp and loud voices this summer planned to stay ‘in the arena’ and continue to protest. With the self-removal of the Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd Congressional District this weekend, the national GOP felt the back-fire first-hand from the anger they created this summer. In Florida the aggressive U.S. Senate primary challenge from former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has eaten into the numbers of Governor Crist, and in large part due again to the ultra-conservatives who are flexing their muscles to the detriment of the national party. These grass-root activists basically just put a sign on the GOP that reads ‘Moderates Need Not Apply’.
The vast majority of voters, of all stripes, understand that by excluding moderates removes a winning recipe for state-wide general elections, or any national campaign. To make a party ‘pure’ might feel good to a limited number of those who are misguided enough to believe it a worthy goal, but when that theory is applied to the real world of politics it is found to be severely limited in winning races. The Republican Party has a problem today of their own making. The question is what to do to fix it?
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I said Coalition. The “tea baggers” as you call them, are basically a single issue group, and as such probably would not amount to much in the grand scheme of things. However, if they were to unite with other small single issue groups they could become a force to be reckoned with. Which groups? That’s hard to say really because right now there are many diverse small groups that, in general, lean right / libertarian.
You are aware that “tea bagging” is a term used in the porn industry are you not? It’s sort of like how “Saturday Night Special” was used by racist groups.
What evidence do you have that a coalition of dissidents would, in fact, be smaller? What sort of “purity” do you have in mind?
Most Americans are moderates and middle of the road politically. Teabaggers are ultra-conservative…so if you have a party that is made up of teabaggers and the far right, then that is a small party that will not be able to win elections……New York 23rd CD come to mind?
As to purity….it is not what I have in mind, but instead what the teabaggers have in mind…….New York 23rd come to mind?
If the GOP allows the teabaggers to dominate the primary process the general election will be harder to win for the Republicans…..as most voters are moderates.
Your grasp of conservatives is clouded by your hatred of them, it clouds your thought process.
There is no hate in my post. It is pure analysis.
So why not address the post, and help me understand why my views about the fate the GOP is wrong?
Or is it because I may be right?
The answer to your question, “The question is what to do to fix it?” Is really quite simple. Stop acting like Democrats.
As to not being able to win any statewide, or national elections? That remains to be seen.
What evidence do you have to offer that a smaller and more ‘pure’ party can win state-wide and national elections. On the very face of it that does not square with any existing example of elections in this country. But I will await your response to be better informed.
Thank you.