What I care about is Republicans who stand up for principles and policies that help Americans.

Even if what you are saying is true, which its not, but if it was I wouldn’t want them to anyways. I don’t want a party to have to be liberal to attract other voters. i don’t vote Republican because they aren’t Democrats, I vote Republican because they are SUPPOSED to be conservative When they abandon conservatives, that leads to voter apathy, that leads to weakened conservative influence, and liberals sure as hell aren’t going to join the party.

“Moderates” and liberals are the same. Moderate views is a liberal. He admitted it himself that he voted for Obama. I find that hilarious. He claims he didn’t vote Republican because they were too right wing, yet he voted for the most partisan (in terms of voting record) of any candidate in recent history! Moderate View’s own voting record proves that when Obama pushed himself to the left it won his vote.

But Obama was beatable. He won because McCain DIDN’T move to his base. It took until the final week for him to finally understand and that was too late. The guy was a fool. Bob Dole was a fool. Every moderate Republican is a fool because they buy into the liberal idea that they need to attract independents.

They tried a moderate and failed. They always fail every time they try to be moderate. Always.

But of course a liberal would want them to try and be more liberal.

Good riddance lib!

There is no point in responding further to those like you who insist it is your way or the highway. It makes intelligent conversation meaningless.

McCain screwed himself because he didn’t present any free market solutions (the conservative way) and offered more socialist plans like buying up mortages, and if Americans are going to choose between light beer and beer they’re gonna pick the beer!

Stop referencing the NY Times. They have one goal and that is to get Obama elected, and now that he is elected they’re going to kiss his butt like they did Bill Clinton. They’re own editor called it a “liberal” newspaper. Their own editor!! They know they’re liberal. Everyone knows they’re liberal. They slant the facts for the Democrats, they’ve done it for years.

Now all these damn media types, especially the newspapers were hoping this election was the death of conservatives but it wasn’t. This election only empowered them, and it empowered a conservative movement.

“If the Republican Party continues to espouse the ideology of the traditional conservative movement, as you J Stat have, it will be a long time before they see power again.” (11/11/08)
<– We’ll save that

As for your 20 percent of conservatives voting Obama, that only proves my point. McCain was a terrible communicator. He couldn’t communicate that conservatives values and beliefs to fix economic crisis and so forth were in line with him. Conservatives believe in the conservative ideology, if they didn’t they wouldn’t call themselves conservative.

But McCain was hated by Conservatives, and hated by the left. Its a losing strategy. We are a center right nation. We are still a nation of Reagonites and if the Republican Party wants to start winning again, it has to remember that.

When they campaign as conservatives they win. Every damn time.

The NY Times has a great set of graphics today that examine the 2008 election, county by county, and by various factors such as age and race and ideology. The two biggest changes were race (Hispanic) and age (18-29). Even conservatives voted more for Democrats this year than in 2004, although this probably has to do with the Bush legacy. The amount of red on the map, those counties that went more Republican than in 2004, was tiny and centered in the old south in states like AL and AK.

You may also want to read in the NY Times today Brook’s opinion today about the GOP as well as an article about why many thing the Southern Strategy may never work again.

As for my voting for the most liberal senator — I vote for policies and leadership not ideology. McCain lost my vote when he broke off his campaign to go back to Washington to herd cats while Obama consulted with the brightest and most knowledgeable and came back with a plan that I felt would work. I also did not like McCain’s economic plan that to me seemed to be more of what was not working and what had really hurt the middle class. I did not like the fiscal policies of either candidate but prefer whatever stimuli be directed towards long-term programs like infrastructure rather that a bailout for bad decisions made by businesses and consumers.