Muddle-headed Michael Barone has crunched the November exit poll data and come to the conclusion that the Republicans should change their strategy. Instead of pandering to rural and downscale cultural conservatives, they should go after the ‘upscale’. Barone doesn’t define ‘upscale’ precisely, but it’s clear that he means people that make a lot of money and that most of them live in the suburbs. The closest he comes to defining the new pitch is to basically reiterate a variation of George W. Bush’s ‘ownership society’.
There’s a tension here, which Republicans can exploit, between the tactics of the MyObama campaign and the policies he favors that would limit choices — one-size-fits-all government health insurance, the effective abolition of secret ballot unionization elections, and environmental policies that reduce your choice of cars and increase the price of energy.
Republicans can argue that their policies will let you choose your future.
Needless to say, Bush’s ‘ownership society’ went nowhere. But a more important obstacle is spelled out by David Duke’s reaction to the election of Michael Steele as head of the GOP.
To Hell with the Republican Party!
GOP traitors appoint Obama Junior as Chairman of the Republican Party
I am glad these traitorous leaders of the Republican Party appointed this Black racist, affirmative action advocate to the head of the Republican party because this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base. As a former Republican official, I can tell you that millions of rank-and-file Republicans are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore! We will either take the Republican Party back over the next four years or we will say, “To Hell With the Republican Party!” And we will take 90 percent of Republicans with us into a New Party that will take its current place!I think the insanity of nominating “Mr. Amnesty” John McCain and now this Black racist – will lead to insurgency in the Republican ranks, and a lot of dissidents getting elected in Republican Party primaries around the country. This will result over the next four years a real move by millions of Republicans to take the party back to the populist issues that are not only right but can win for the Republican Party. We must end affirmative action, protect our gun rights and all our constitutional rights, have a moratorium on immigration, we must have protectionism, yes I said protect American businesses and their workers from NAFTA and GATT and the lie of free trade, and we must have America First, not foreign interventionism. Our boys should be home protecting the American borders a not being murdered on the borders of Iraq or Afghanistan. The time as come for Republican Party to stand up to Obama and defend American heritage, rights, and freedom!
…Let’s make this abomination in the Republican Party, the last major party of White redoubt, as a rallying cry of resistance!
What would the GOP do without these core members of their base? Michael Barone doesn’t say.
I have a feeling that we’re going to see a third party popping up sometime soon. The GOP is so weak and fragmented that the door is open for some kind of indy/libertarian effort.
need to figure out how to combine forces, between the Reason.com-I-Hate-Ron-Paul club and the Lew Rockwellian pro-Ron-Paulians.
I never have quite understood that particular rift, but it was really strange seeing NO Ron Paul mentions on reason.com, as far as supporting/front page information. Almost all mention of Ron Paul there was “paultards” and other sneers against Paul & his supporters.
Oh, boy. We’re gonna need a lot more popcorn.
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turned to the right under Tony Blair.
Hundreds of employees staged walkouts across the UK.The government has signalled it might challenge European Union law to prevent British workers from being “undercut” by cheap foreign labour. Health Secretary Alan Johnson said two recent rulings by the European Court of Justice had “undermined” protections.
It comes in the wake of wildcat strikes over the use of foreign labour at a Lincolnshire refinery.
But the Lib Dems warned pulling out of EU labour laws would be a “huge, self-defeating step too far”.
PM Gordon Brown’s 2007 pledge “British jobs for British workers” exposed as “fiction”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."The party vested in America’s failure is falling apart at the seams.
What a surprise.
They still have a grip on power, though. The media plays a large part in that.
..is that I agree with a good half of what David Duke argues.
Obviously, not his racist crap, but I’d like to see the war end, and large companies penalized for outsourcing, and penalized for insourcing illegal labor FOR THE PURPOSE of skirting hard-fought labor laws and end-running unions. I’d like to see a “make it, buy it and spend it in America” ethic return.
Duke is mistaken about Steele though. He is a right-wing tool through and through.
did you catch this, Irish workers staging a sit-in at the Waterford Crystal factory?