How can the Republicans get their base back?

[Sid]

How can the Republicans get their base back? Moral issues would seem to be the obvious way, but none are in play at the moment. GOP strategists will surely pray for something to pop up. But with two new conservative justices augmenting the Supreme Court's right wing, the base may think it can afford to relax a bit and indulge its animosity over the Foley affair by either staying home or voting Democrat.


For now, the best the Republicans can do is make their pitch over national security and terrorism. The clear differences between the parties over the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency wiretaps loom large in this age of impending terrorist attack. The Clinton administration's laxity in addressing the terrorist threat and the success of the tools the Bush people have put in place in keeping attacks at bay illustrate the importance and salience of these issues.


We might have no Brooklyn Bridge, for example, if the NSA hadn't intercepted chatter about blowing it up through its wiretaps and shared this information with the NYPD, as required by the Patriot Act. And we'd never have ID'd the man trying to strike at the bridge had we not been authorized to conduct lawyer-less questioning of terror suspects.


Will the GOP base realize the importance of these issues? Will they get it in time?





Can the Republican Party save itself from disaster in next month's elections? (http://www.nypost.com/seven/10192006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/republican_base_desires_opedcolumnists_dick_morris .htm)

[CoreIssue]

The Rep. are missing the boat entirely on the economy.

The Stock Market is not the economy for the average worker. Those jobs shipping over seas, allowing companies like WaMart and Target to run rough shod over their workers, allowing pensions to be stolen from retirees (by not forcing them to have funded them over the years), cutting medical benefits, making it impossible for the average person to get disability, illegals and such while wasting billions in aid, overseas, on such as AID in Africa, where those people have no intention of changing their lifestyles, supporting countries that do not deserve it and so forth.

That is where they are missing the boat completely.

[Sid]

There is only one poll that counts:




Last week, in a column in The Hill (http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/101806.html), Dick Morris noted that loyal Republicans were abandoning their party. "Churchgoing whites are the core of the Republican base. The fact that they are now breaking even in the approaching midterm elections foretells total disaster for the GOP. For this group to leave is, quite literally, the political equivalent of the last dog dying! It is now likely that they will lose both houses of Congress."

Today, in a column on his website (http://www.vote.com/magazine/columns/dickmorris/column60420992.phtml), Morris says the Republican base "seems to be coming back home. This trend, only vaguely and dimly emerging from a variety of polls, suggests that a trend may be afoot that would deny the Democrats control of the House and the Senate."



It's About the Base (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/10/24/its_about_the_base.html)

[CoreIssue]

Yes. But the Rep. Party better not get the idea it is because those conservative support the Party completely. Counting on lesser of two evils voting is a dangerous way to go.

There is an opening for a 3rd party that is morally conservative, not Wall Street conservative.

[Sid]

Yes. But the Rep. Party better not get the idea it is because those conservative support the Party completely. Counting on lesser of two evils voting is a dangerous way to go.


The Democrats have become the party of Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Moveon.org. . .

. . . the party of amnesty and open borders

. . . the party of gay marriage

. . . the party of abortion on demand

. . . the party of trial lawyers and judges that legislate from the bench

, , , the party of cut 'n run in Iraq



I believe the choices are pretty clear.

As far as third party, this link discusses the problem with that:


. . . please remember that it was disaffected Republicans who voted for Ross Perot who helped elect Bill Clinton president, and it was disaffected Democrats who voted for Ralph Nader who helped elect George W. Bush president.

Unless you run yourself, dear annoyed Republican, you will never find an ideal candidate. Compared to you and your conservative principles, real-life Republicans are indeed a failure. But compared to real-life Democrats, they are almost giants.

Vote out of anger, and you'll either vote Democrat or stay home.

Vote out of reason, and you'll vote Republican.


Please choose reason.


If you don't like the Republican candidate, the place to get rid of him is in the primary, not the general election. The general election is not between good Republicans and irresponsible Republicans; it's between Republicans and Democrats.



Note to angry Republicans: Stay angry, but vote Republican (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=note_to_angry_republicans_sta y_angry,_but_vote_republican&ns=DennisPrager&dt=10/31/2006&page=2)

[CoreIssue]

Sorry, Sid, but the Dems being terrible does not let the Rep. off the hook.

Throwing out Perot as if he is the only kind of 3rd Party that can arise is a false argument to me. History says otherwise.

I a sick of voting for the lesser of two evils.

The Rep. are not helping the nation. But they are hurting it less than the Dems.

The only reason they have been getting elected is to keep the Dems out. Not because they have good planning on the menu.

I will vote Rep. until a genuine real 3rd Party arises, if it ever will.

A good one will pull people from both parties, not just one.

All one has to do is ask themselves why the Independents now are the largest voting block to see there is a real problem.

[Sid]

I will vote Rep. until a genuine real 3rd Party arises, if it ever will.

A good one will pull people from both parties, not just one.

All one has to do is ask themselves why the Independents now are the largest voting block to see there is a real problem.


Core:


If the Democrats don't get the landslide and both House and Senate that they are already congratulating each other about, there just might be a real third party movement come from their demise.

We'll know in a week.

[CoreIssue]

Exactly what I am hoping for.

Nail them to the wall and shatter them. Then the Rep. might wake up in the face of a more conservative challenger going after them.

But can they get rid of all those liberal Rep. senators? Why do states keep putting such liberals in the senate from both parties? :scratch:

[Sid]

Then the Rep. might wake up in the face of a more conservative challenger going after them.

Core:

Are you ready for an Islamic third party?

I have seen websites dedicated to a Muslim president in 2020.

Sharia Law, anyone?




But can they get rid of all those liberal Rep. senators? Why do states keep putting such liberals in the senate from both parties? :scratch:

At the rate that the North East and California are losing population to fly over country [especially Texas] the politics of the House will become more conservative.


Hopefully Massachusetts can do something about Senators Kennedy and Kerry.

. . . and California with Boxer and Feinstein.

[CoreIssue]

So many unknowns.

While those areas are loosing population, the growing South is booming with illegals.

In Georgia the Dems got the voter ID card law suspended as unconstitutional for this election.

We REALLY need America to wake up.

I don't care which party wins if the illegals take over. We are doomed.