re: #190 Sharmuta

It’s very simple- return to what works.

For Republicans, it’s always been fiscal issues. Reagan won running with conservative (meaning GOLDWATER) fiscal principles, and so did Newt and the 1994 House.

Crazy kookspiracies and panic mongering are not attractive to the electorate. It’s not a positive message, even if you agree with it.

Returning to Goldwater styled economic principles, and making them front and center might work.

Maybe… If anyone is listening.

A platform based on fiscal responsibility would resonate strongly with American voters right now, who on the whole are exercising their very own fiscal restraint on a daily basis. Although the GOP has dropped that ball in recent years, they can still pick it up again - while the Democrats certainly cannot with annual trillion-dollar deficits staring them in the face for the next decade under even the most optimistic circumstances.

Every GOP member of Congress ought to have an updated version of this graph printed on T-shirts that they wear everywhere, including the halls of Congress. It’s gotten even more alarming in recent months, with projected deficits at least 25% higher than what’s shown.

It stuns everyone I show it to, Liberal or Conservative, into immediate silence.