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Offline speekinout

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Re: Daniel Greenfield to Romney: Don't Run
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2014, 10:34:25 pm »
While I agree with you that many if not most Libertarians have foreign policy ideas that are not exactly great (speaking as a foreigner), it's probably the best bet.

America is pretty much always going to be split at 30% Repub voters, 30% Dem voters - the ones who will vote party, no matter what. It's the other 40% that are the key. They may tend one way or another, but they need to be wooed.

The Libertarian focus on domestic - trimming government fat, pushing for jobs creation and getting government regulations under control and out of your life is going to be an attractive message. People want solutions to their problems - and not many of the 40% consider the ME (for example) their problem.

History says that the US really shouldn't ignore the rest of the world - we're on too many enemies lists. The last time we totally ignored the rest of the world, we got Pearl Harbor. And we were pretty much ignoring threats from outside when we got 9/11. Given the state of the world right now, ignoring foreign policy is a suicidal idea.

We don't have a 30%-30% split between parties now. We haven't had that close of a split for awhile. It's more like 40% dim and 28% GOP. The dim voters can always be counted on to go to the polls if they are needed. And the dim politicians are very good at keeping count, so they know exactly when to bring out the tie breakers, which can include the voters from the cemeteries if need be. The GOP voters are far more fickle. They will stay home for various reasons, and most of the time the politicians just don't know why until it's too late.

But where we have really tipped the scales is with entitlement spending. Over half our voters collect gov't checks for something - welfare, gov't salaries, SS, disability, unemployment, etc. The GOP has to find a way to convince those people that we need to move away from gov't benefits and back to the capitalist society we were so successful with. That's the argument that is key to winning.