re: #163 JRCMYP

This is what I don’t understand. Any Republican candidate that embraces climate change, marriage equity, women’s rights, and other reasonable issues, PLUS, they focus on jobs and the economy, it seems like a win-win, no? They’d corner the Independent market, the RINO market and the blue dog market.

Why try to go after the Republican base? Or is it just because they first need to win the primaries?

I think I’ve answered my own question :p

The Republican base has lurched so far to the right in the last 3 years that any candidate who deviates from the party line even one millimeter is going to be attacked, and lose a lot of support.

I’ll be very surprised if Romney’s able to overcome this huge obstacle. He already has a major strike against him, just by being a Mormon instead of a fundamentalist Protestant. The climate change stuff is going to kill him.

The Republican Party absolutely hates any science that doesn’t make big corporations money.