Only for the right types, if you know what I mean…
Presumably they’ll try the same techniques that conned the adahers of this country into buying the notion of the GOP as the fiscally responsible party.
Angry cheese eating surrender monkeys?
I guess we’ll have to bring French Fries back to the cafeterias on Capitol Hill then.
Say what you will about the French, but I personally think that the people who invented oral sex are due some respect and appreciation!
Can you imagine how shitty it feels to be adaher? It must be like that scene where Sideshow Bob steps on all the rakes. Take a step, humiliating defeat. Take a step, humiliating defeat.
If he weren’t such a twat, I’d feel bad.
There’s another type of cheese eating surrender monkey? 
I’m seeing some serious denial in this thread. Regardless of how the Republicans achieved supremacy from 1980 to 2006(and a case could be made that they are still supreme today given how many states they control+the House), they didn’t just wait for demographic changes to save them. Republicans have always won by taking former Democrats and turning them into Republicans.
According to the predictions made right here on this board over the past few years, Republicans should already be losing badly. yet they have moved even further to the right and stayed competitive. An argument could be made that if they hadn’t moved further to the right, and nominated unelectable candidates in places like Nevada and Delaware, they’d already control all of Congress. Perhaps even the White House, given how much of the anti-Romney vote was because the President’s campaign tried to tie him to the far right.
Anyway, the point of the thread was to show that between 2008 and 2012, a full 2.4 million voters in one important demographic(young voters) did not vote for Obama. Those are all winnable voters for the GOP, and elections are still close enough that 2.4 million is quite the swing group to compete for. And frankly, I doubt any plausible Democratic candidates for President over the next 8-12 years are going to be able to win them. What can Democrats promise that generation? That they’ll have to pay for their elders? Republicans actually have plans to relieve young people of that burden, and youthful candidates to explain those plans.
By sending them to die in places like Afghanistan and Iraq ( and likely Syria, Mexico, Pakistan, Iran and Burkina Faso if the Republicans gain control again.)
I don’t believe that you’re seeing any denial, because I honestly don’t believe you read other people’s posts.
The Democrats who became Republicans over the last 30ish years were already conservative. The number of conservatives (and liberals, for that matter) really hasn’t changed very much over the last 40 years.
Republicans haven’t changed people’s minds. Both parties have simply consolidated voting patterns to eliminate liberal Republicans and greatly reduce the number of conservative Democrats. That’s it. It’s really, really simple and you are totally wrong.
GWB excepted, the GOP has never been the warmonger party, despite that being a lie pushed by Democrats since LBJ. I remember the fond days of Mondale ads saying Reagan would start WWIII if he was reelected.
Meanwhile, Democrats have shown far more of an interventionist streak than Republicans. And if you think Obama isn’t going to bomb Iran, you don’t know the guy. I have many issues with him, but he’s never been afraid to drop bombs on people.
And are not many minorities actually conservative but vote Democrat because of perceived hostility to them? Are not those minorities very winnable for Republicans? The Republicans did change minds, they just didn’t change people’s ideology. Rather, they convinced conservative Democrats to vote for them.
Your own argument indicates that this consolidation should continue, which again, means no real issues for Republicans going forward. It shouldn’t be racial demographics that should worry Republicans, it should be if we see those polls showing more liberals and fewer conservatives. Which has not happened, despite major demographic change already.
Absolutely true. And the Republican Party still needs to learn this.
Your OP is an example of the problem. You’re acting as if everyone that doesn’t vote for Obama is an automatic vote for the Republicans. But the reality is that the Republicans aren’t going to win just because people stop voting Democrat - they need to convince people to vote Republican. The GOP needs to adopt a platform that’s a little deeper than “we’re the party that isn’t the Democrats (plus tax cuts)”.
As for the French, time for a reality check. If every French voter goes out tomorrow gets a tattoo of Rick Santorum, it’ll be worth about as much as Obama’s Nobel Prize. European opinions mean nothing in American elections.
The 60s generation was not the most liberal (relatively speaking) in history-it was merely that the leftists (and the rightists) were some of the most obnoxious, and ideological people around. The situation of the rising generation is more comparable to that of the Greatest Generation (according to Strauss-Howe both generations are of the “civic” model while the Baby Boomers were of the “prophet” model) who turned out for FDR in large numbers after the Great Depression and favoured Democrats throughout their lives.
You’re seeing some serous denial?!
YOU?!
Are you fucking KIDDING?!
Well at least we can blame our current troubles on President Romney - oh that’s right, we can’t, because you were as fucking wrong then as you are now.
You really embody everything that’s wrong with the conservatives. You’re an ignorant fuck who disregards facts in favor of ideology, you lie like a rug in an attempt to pull unsuspecting and uninformed people into your fantasy, and you hide behind a false sense of patriotism that’s nothing more than a platform of bigotry and pathological self interest.
You’re a piece of shit.
I have no objections to your characterization of
adaher, but I wonder, since the Democrats won, if it’s necessary to be so harsh
That poster will need to hold onto the anger because there are more Republican wins to come. The days of Democratic dominance are far off, if they’ll ever arrive.
Why? Are you looking in a mirror as you read it?
I think Rand Paul has the right ideas:
At least for attracting younger voters to the GOP.
Are you suggesting Ronald Reagan could ACT?!?!?
Yes. I’m sick of being a gracious winner and then getting stomped on by a bunch of sore losers. As James Carville said, We’re Right, They’re Wrong, and we should start acting like it.
Well, broken clock, twice a day and all.
[reads article]
Well, his two chances will come later, I guess.