by Jack
One of the headlines today was about the GOP brand becoming unpopular among the voters, in fact their polling said, “29 percent of registered voters said they had “very negative” impressions of the Republican Party – the second-highest number of voters to give the most intensely negative assessment of the GOP in the history of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, dating back to 1990.”
I hate to admit it, but this is probably true. The Republican brand has lost a lot of appeal over the last decade. You’ve probably noticed that GOP candidates don’t want to use [Republican] on their signs anymore, instead they say, Conservative. This change reminds me when Liberals changed to become Progressives. They wore out the term liberal to the point where the very word conjured up an image of a fringe radical.
GOP campaign managers everywhere tell their people, it’s far safer to identify yourself as an independent minded conservative and stay away from being labeled as a partisan hack for the GOP. I’m sure this was also intended to separate them from the past when we had Rockefeller Republicans, Nixonians, and before that, the Gypsy Moth Republicans, all pejoratives for moderates currently called RINO’s (republicans in name only). We’ve had enough of those types – they’ve damaged the party’s name and helped usher in the democrat controlled 110th Congress (2005-2007) which was the setup for many bad things that followed, from the housing bubble to Obama’s election.
So, it’s no longer enough to be called a republican candidate; they must take it a step further. However, if they’re not a true blue conservative, they probably won’t get elected, the Tea Party will see to that.
How about a Conservative party like New York has and Sean Hannity says hes a registered member of?
How do you think it would work now with our open elections? I’m willing to change.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/17/sean-hannity-struck-a-nerve/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/11/18/hannity-promotes-his-conservative-victory-2010/157149
The Democrat brand isn’t doing any better and Congress, made up of both parties and a few others is at an all time low for approval at 13% (Scroll down to second image):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/100244184/Breaking-News-Congress-is-unpopular-Plus-fresh-poll-findings-about-Election-2012-health-care-and-more
I think this is good news for America. It means most Americans are fed up with the bickering, the pandering, the class and racial warfare, and the lack of honest, workable solutions. Politicians care more about party wins than they do what works. Some are driven by an agenda to change (transform) our republic and work toward that goal of redistribution exclusively.
Americans are fed up and that is a good thing. The challenge is to restore the heritage that made America great so we can continue to be a beacon for freedom, opportunity, and prosperity to the rest of the world.
The Tea Party is made up of dedicated, hard working, true blue Americans…they will see to it that we get back on track, Jack! Good post.
Tina and Peggy, there probably never has been a better time for a 3rd party made up of truly honest conservatives. The obvious problem is it will, for a time, give victory over to the democratic party that has not been so divided. However, if enough people would respond quickly and get behind the party the damage would be minimal.
Another obstacle is, people think its hopeless. They say, well, we’ve got the two party system and that means dems and reps will be around forever, like it or not. Same ol BS year after year. That’s not necessarily true. When things fail to work we always look for new things that do work, a political party is no different. Fail to deliver year after year, and we’re going to dump you! Or at least we should, and then we need take on responsibility and form up something that does work.
Next, and this is a slightly different tact, but it’s about getting politics to work. We need to make every vote for president count, not just for fairness which is more than enough to warrant change, but for the economic realities of electing a president. Millions upon millions are spent in states to get their electoral votes.
But, in good ol California, republicans and third party voters don’t count. This is a winner take all state and that needs to change to a prorated division of electoral votes. I want presidential candidates to come here and fire up the voters. I want our people engaged in the issues and I love the new ideas vigorous debates encourage!
We need to start state-wide proposition to prorate the electoral votes and get 7.5 million of voters back into the game.
This one is a no brainer. Who could be against this, except for the most partisan, selfish radicals? I honestly don’t think there’s enough of them to stop us.