re: #249 Charles

Why do you suppose Bachmann is gaining traction? I’ve only been familiar with her for a few days, Ive seen a few presentations to congress and she talks my language. She’s talking about big government, pork barrel, big taxes and the effect they have on american prosperity. That is the message she is putting out. That would be Reaganomics would it not?

Similarly Paul says the same, Beck says the same. It is a popular message and right now for many Brits and Americans; everthing is secondary to the economy. And are they sounding like extremists? Well in ordinary times perhaps yes but you may have noticed that this current administration is now pissing trillions up the wall and if now isn’t time to get serious I don’t know when is.

America and the west cannot afford to go into a negative spiral of defeatism and parrochial navel gazing because Obamas spendathon will bring the US economy to its knees. So learn form your nutjobs. Theyre on to something. Low taxes, smaller government, more liberty, greater prosperity. There’s nothing wrong with the message, if you don’t like the messengers then you need to find a new messenger who will deliver the same message with convition and credibility.

No-one with close links to the Bush era will be able to push that message with any credibility because Bush was a massive spender too so you have to really go out there and float some ideas as to who we DO want to go with as opposed to who we don’t.

Find an alternative, never mind what Paul and Bachmann are doing. Give us an alternative and we the electorate will do the rest of the work.
If you go on the attack, always on a negative you will not win, you gratify them. Obama wasn’t elected on the backfoot. He brought forward a positive message of hope. Never mind that it was phoney, it was a positive message. If all the people can see in the GOP is a party in self destruct, a party that talks more about itself than the world out there, they will not come knocking on our door.

The UK Tories languished as a minority by engaging in a decade long civil war, changing leaders and always fighting in public. People got sick of it.
Had they looked to their roots, had the courage of conviciton to stand by their principles instead of fighting on the medias turf, we’d have had Labour out four years or more ago. But not one single guy they put up would dare push the agenda of public sector cuts and low taxes. They failed to inspire, they failed to push a new vision and now the BNP and UKIP are mopping up the core vote and the grass roots activists.

Civil war isn’t a luxury we righties can afford. If you tear down the people you dont like without offering up the people you do, you will destroy your only electoral asset and with it you take down your message.

What was that about being a big tent party?