Comments on: 73% of GOP Voters Say Congressional Republicans Have Lost Touch With Their Base

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By: Mago

Mago — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:45:00 +0000

I'm more surprised that 27% of GOP voters think the party is on the right track. Who are these mystery GOP voters? Every single conservative I know is fed up with the Republicans.

By: MikeinIdaho

MikeinIdaho — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:49:09 +0000

I'm pleasantly surprised by this survey and would love to believe it! Perhaps the american people have FINALLY awakened to the mess they are surrounded by. Now we just have to take back the party and take back the country!
It is my fervent hope that the current crop of weasels (all of them) in power is on their last tour of duty!

By: GAScott

GAScott — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:35:15 +0000

"In most elections there is only a margin of a few percentage points. Take that away and the Dems win every time."

And therein lies the problem.

If we wait until the general election to make change, we'll never have the best candidate to vote for. The primaries should be where we focus our resources and separate the chaffe from the wheat.

If we don't, it'll be the same story in 2010. Put a Democrat in office to send a message to the Republicans or hold our nose and vote for a RINO because the alternative is unacceptable.

The primaries are the Conservative's secret weapon.

By: Stergeye

Stergeye — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:44:06 +0000

"Palatable"? To whom?

It's interesting to note that those who most loudly decry "partisan" politics never define their own highly partisan positions as "partisan".

Patisanship is precisely what politics is all about. Defeating Leftist attempts to take over healthcare, the banks, the auto industry and to impose draconian energy costs will require LOTS of loud, obnoxious partisan energy. As evidenced by the polls which indicate that Obama is being abandoned by previous moderates, you Ace, find yourself occcupying a shrinking middle between two highly partisan camps.

By: SkeeterVT

SkeeterVT — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:41:04 +0000

The 19th century Democratic Party was the Southern-dominated PRO-SLAVERY party, lest anyone forget. The GOP was founded in 1854 as the Northern ANTI-SLAVERY party. If you really want to know who's to blame for starting the GOP's decline, you need to look back to the 1968 election, when Richard Nixon hatched his "Southern Strategy" of appealing to angry Southern white voters who were fiercely opposed to the civil rights movement. In a sense, Nixon had little choice, as his campaign was threatened by the third-party candidacy of George Wallace (The arch-segregationist former Alabama governor ended up taking far more votes away from Nixon than from Democrat Hubert Humphrey and almost cost Nixon the election).

Nixon's "Southern Strategy" betrayed what up until then had been the Republicans' — the party of Lincoln's — most loyal constituency: African-Americans, who bolted the GOP in droves after that. The party has been playing the "Southern Strategy" ever since, expanding it to the entire country. Today's GOP more closely resembles the Democrats of the 19th century.

By: SkeeterVT

SkeeterVT — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:21:20 +0000

Actually, the GOP has no choice. . .The base has shrunk to 20 percent of the electorate, which means the party has no hope whatsoever of winning back either the White House or Congress without the support of independents — many of whom are ex-Republicans fed up with the party's drift toward the far-right lunatic fringe — just as many Democrats got fed up with their party's drift to the far-left lunatic fringe 30 years ago.