Great article showing up on the CATO Institute home page, discussing the real lesssons to be learned from the recent presidential election. The author of the article is Michael D. Tanner.
"Tuesday's massive Democratic landslide cannot be seen as anything but a repudiation of the Republican Party's tenure in power. Combined with the equally large Democratic victory in 2006, Republicans have now lost the presidency, more than 50 House seats, and at least a dozen seats in the Senate in just two years."
"To suggest that in electing Barack Obama and a Democratic congressional majority, voters were choosing big government and liberalism over small government and conservatism would imply that either the Bush administration, the current Republican congressional leadership, or, for that matter, John McCain, actually supported smaller government." Click here to read more
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I hope he is right, but the following stats do not portend a Conservative resurgence: The numbers, I’m afraid, tell the tale. When it came to young voters, 69% went for Obama; Jews, 78%; blacks, 96%; Catholics, 54%; Hispanics, 67%; females, 56%; 90% of Muslims. When you factor in birth rates, I’m not sure that in 2012, Republicans will get more votes than Libertarians.
The young, educated in do nothing High Schools or in leftist Universities, have no concept of what our nation was founded on. "Bread and Circuses is their battle cry.
It will be a long road back if ever, I am afraid.
No doubt that there will be a long road back, if there is any way back at all. I think that a lot of the work will be education. Most people do not even know what conservatism is. They think that conservatism is what the republican party has been doing for the last eight years. That is just laughable.
I agree it is laughable to think that Bush and most of his guys are true Republicans. But it's also understandable. Who else can you blame for the mix up other than the people who voted these Republican impostors in to office twice? How else do we judge whether or not an ideology is working? Why would we vote for another Republican to fix the mess of the previous?
Nice lookin' blog by the way.
Good point. The idea of conservatism has been hijacked by a party that does not hold true to the principles of liberty. The repudiation of that party in this last election is proof positive. To have a chance of a future, the Republicans need to find a candidate that is actually conservative, and that can articluate conservative values in a way that people will understand and embrace them.
I agree. I think Ron Paul was closest. He also had a lot of the youth behind him. I think if most Republicans got behind Paul, they might have had a chance against Obama. When Obama won big in Iowa's caucus, a lot of democrats thought, "wow, they like him too." Maybe the same thing would have happened with Paul amongst republicans. A Ron Paul/Huckabee or Bloomberg ticket would have been hard to vote against in my opinion.
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