Posted by
Duck Archer on Friday, September 05, 2008 5:20:35 PM
So, Democrats just last week (mid-August) again decided to change their rules: Florida & Michigan get full electoral tallies at the primary after all ... once again liberals opt for zero-consequences for those who break rules -- and again change the agreed-on rules in mid-stream! Republicans should point out this chicanery! But they won't...
Not pointing out these morality differences is a large part of why Republicans Lose Winnable Elections. They must give 'change' we can believe in, and get elected with it! Here's how ...
1. Yes, finally, an election of ‘change’:
- a liberal democrat riding a wave of discontent against D.C. Politics As Usual
- a moderate republican emphasizing his ability to change things by reaching across the aisle.
Yes, a year of ‘change in the wind’ for the record books that chronicle major shifts in American politics:
- Obama v. McCain, 2008.
- But also
-- Clinton v. Dole, 1996, and
-- Clinton v. Bush Sr., 1992
-- And other recent elections are near-parallels too.
-- Let's go back just a bit further. How about Nixon-McGovern 1972? There's a case of a party head who tends to dis his own party, running against an ultra-liberal who "looks good". Oops.
Perhaps one wonders, is all change old again? Interesting.
2. Yes, quite an election year. And Republicans ignorant of history are likely to repeat the 1992 Clinton defeat of Bush Sr ... or repeat the 1972 victory that led inevitably to the 1973-5 quagmire that led to Carter's malaise ...
Strong words for Republicans still stinging from 2006 elections, and confused by “80% of Americans want change”.
Here are more strong words:
a. “All politics is local” … Republicans adopted this phrase after the 2004 elections, to their demise in 2006
- but it’s the liberals who think small & local, and expect the same from their elected politicians
- conservatives tend to think about the nation ahead of pork, and expect the same from their elected politicians
b. “Those ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it” … which begs a scrutiny …
- “Watergate” was a watershed political moment. Pays to review the record since that watershed birthed modern political trends. The record shows that Reagan was the most conservative Republican, and won overwhelmingly. The rest were less conservative, and won (barely) or lost to the degree they shied from conservative principles. (See blow-by-blow in my post "Republicans Win When Conservative")
- Seems that Republicans win the presidency when they stick to conservative principles. (Again, note my post "Repubilcans Win When Conservative".) And the same would seem to hold true, to a lesser degree, with other national offices, though the evidence is not presented here: it seems Republicans win most state-wide elected offices with ease to the degree that they and their presidential candidate mightly promote conservative principles. Perhaps, at heart, most Americans are conservative, and respond to conservative champions?
3. This essay, mostly, leaves aside precisely what is ‘conservative’ versus ‘liberal’. Not the point of this essay. This essay also is not intended to explore the causality link from conservatism and electoral victory (with any more than one obvious guess in the above paragraph). This essay, rather, merely points out the fact that Republicans tend to win more, when more conservative. This essay’s style is to cleanly & simply lay out the ‘what’, leaving the specifics of the ‘why’ for another occasion.
This essay is intended to be just a simple wakeup call to Republicans who wish to win elections.
4. Republicans: be conservatives for once. We sure can't get it from Democrats, and (so far) no other party has a chance. Republicans can be conservative, or go into political dustbin of history. Republicans, be conservative for your electoral good, and the good of the country!
- Don’t waffle. Be somebody we can trust.
- Uphold truth, eschew lies.
- Insist on justice triumphing over relative morality; laws of the land trumping elitist agenda.
Conservative politicians. Now that’s change we can believe in. (!!)