What the Stupid Party never seems to learn is a “moderate” can give the Evil Party every concession it demands and at the end of the day he’ll still be smeared as a right wing extremist. [More]Can they really believe the answer is to turn their backs on the base and side with the enemy?
The other thing the Stupid Party never seems to learn is that the Left will never vote for a Republican, no matter how "moderate" he/she may be. If there's a 'D' on the ticket, they will vote for that.
ReplyDeleteThe Evil Party understands this; they assume GOP voters won't vote for their candidates so there's no reason to woo "moderates". I believe it's why many of the Democratic candidates lately have shifted so far left, while GOP candidates have not shown a matching right-shift (if anything, they've shifted left, too). It's safe for the Evil Party to shift left; their voters would support an open socialist, a mass murderer, or a can of beans over an 'R' candidate.
It also makes it safe to accuse any GOP candidate, no matter how "moderate", of "right-wing extremism".
IOW, there's literally no point to preemptive surrender, or in "going along to get along"; they'll never win Democrat votes anyway*. All that does is squelch conservative support...
... and lose elections.
The GOP: Narrowly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for five generations and counting.
(* - See: Oregon gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler. An AMA-certified doctor, pro-choice, pro-vaccine, pro-LGBT, anti-gun, and endorsed by several major newspapers, including Portland-based "The Oregonian". Still lost to Kate Brown because his "moderate" stance offended many conservatives, and despite those Leftist bona fides Democrats still wouldn't vote for him.)