It would be great if we could discuss the cost of losing the last two elections without the tiring knee-jerk reaction of automatically placing all of the blame on "conservatives who sat out the election". I would like to hear a frank and honest discussion of what the GOP leadership has done to alienate a lot of people within their own party...of why it is automatically assumed that only a "moderate" can win - when clearly they can't. A conversation about why the GOP is afraid of it's own shadow and lives in mortal fear of offending Obama, blacks, hispanics, gays, islamic terrorists, feminists, welfare parasites, the media...and on and on.
Who they end up offending, and have no compunction to do so - is a significant number of people in their own party! The only reason people keep talking about Donald Trump (ad nauseam) is because he is saying things that a good number of people are hungry to hear - because they never hear it from the GOP! (I personally think he is in the race to keep the smaller candidates from getting media coverage - once he gets them out of the way - he will drop out. Not to mention the media and Obama & Co using him as a GIANT distraction from the other stuff going on. Don't trust Trump much.) But if we keep talking on-and-on-and-on-and-on about Donald Trump, we are enabling this - taking the bait. My God, we are so stupid - we deserve to lose elections - we are idiots that never learn. I'm so disgusted by us right now that I can hardly keep from vomiting.
If being a spineless coward was such a great strategy - then it would be a winning strategy. The only reason they won the last mid-term election is because it was a last ditch hail Mary pass - and as many of us expected - it hasn't paid off for us.
These are the things that have had a great effect on the last two losing elections. Blame conservatives if you must, but until the leadership is at least willing to SHARE the blame - there can be no productive conversation.
I'm at the point where I'm not even sure there will even BE another election. It's that bad, and it's getting worse every day. The current strategy of "offend no one" is offensive to anyone that wants to see real change in this country - that wants to turn this disaster around. Unfortunately, I think it's too late.
It's not a jerk reaction to blame the loss of the election on people sitting out the election when people are openly saying that they sat out the election because they didn't like the candidate.
That's just a fact. The reasons why they felt justified to sit the election out is something else altogether.
The OTHER fact is that if the GOP nominates some abject moron like Trump or a SoCon like Huckabee or Santorum because some people believe them to be conservatives because they talk about God all the time, and those of us who believe that they are abject, worthless morons sit out the election, the GOP will again lose, irrespective of whether or not the conservative wing shows up at the polling places.
What loses elections is the fact that the right does not unite behind one candidate once that candidate wins the primaries.
The left is defined and united by their hatred for the right, and the right is defined and divided by their hatred for the right.
We can go on all day and all night talking about how some portion of the GOP is dissatisfied with the GOP and how someone that's not a "moderate" would be a better candidate, but the long and the short of it is that some of us will vote for the GOP nominee, EVEN IF BY SOME FREAKISH HAPPENSTANCE THAT NOMINEE IS SOME FAR-RIGHT IDEOLOGUE THAT'S NOT PALATABLE TO US, while others will NOT vote for a candidate that's not "right enough" to find suitable.
This country needs a rest form ideologues.
Putting up a moderate that may somehow try to unite us instead of further dividing us along political ideological lines to the degree where we can't even enjoy a good song because we object to the singer's politics, may be a welcomed change.
Just my honest opinion.
