re: #214 Sharmuta

I didn’t even mention that. My point is that there are big spending republicans, what I’ve started calling “socialist republicans”. They cost us Congress in 2006, and they hurt us again in 2008. When fiscal conservatives get pissed, the gop loses. This goes back to 1992. But if that issue is going to continue to be ignored, look for democrat victories for years to come.

There’s too many people in the GOP that will simply say when conservatives get pissed, the GOP loses. Then they wave around the likes of Jindal as a savior. They see the problem, but do not really understand it. Rush Limbaugh is a prime example of this. They are closer to the truth than the idiots who think we lost in 2006 because of Iraq or because they weren’t socialist enough, but they are still wrong.

I see that we have 2 problems in the GOP, not just 1. First being “Socialist Republicans” who don’t come off as religious wingnuts (the RINOs like Snowe and others that Rush calls the “country club blue blood” types) who don’t mind big-gov policies as long as they smell “conservative-like” or keep them in office by enriching contributors. This group really pisses off fiscal conservatives. The second, obviously, is the Creationist anti-science crowd, many of which are also socalists as well (under the guise of Compassionate Conservativism). This group also pisses off many fiscal conservatives and scares off social moderates who might otherwise vote with us.

Both of these groups need to be marginalized, and in a way that does not reduce the GOP voting block to the point of handing commies the government for decades. I don’t know the solution to this.