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Originally Posted by mrbeast
It amuses me that several people on here think that the GOP lost because it wasn't right-wing enough! 
Didn't the US just vote, giving a clear mandate, for one of its most liberal Senators to be the next president? 
Doesn't that tell you something about public opinion in the US at the moment?
I don't see the logic;.......'the Republican party is just not conservative enough for me anymore........so I'm voting for Obama'!? :hmm: |
Indeed, and that is what the linked essay also says, like you. A new generation is taking over in the US. The once total dominance of white man in the US is no more. a lot of younger people have moved into once republican, conservative bastion-states, but that they moved there does not mean they adopt conservative agendas. foreign immigration is taking place, changing ethnical patterns in the population structure and no ,onger willingly falling into place in just the two existing party schemes, and with that comes different balances of interests, from south to north, "white" america is in slow but constant decline, while "hispanic" America is growing in influence.
Republicans used to live by the habit of expecting that power is theirs, and that theirs is the dominant view, it was taken as a natural thing, as if given and guaranteed by God's mercy. But time and population have changed, plus the Bush-factor: last but not least the voting has been a loud sounding slap in the face for Bush himself.
"Country first". It's time that conservative Republicans now learn to live up to that slogan of theirs, and look beyond the horizon of their ideologic trenches. I don't know if Palin has a future in their party, or will simply sink back to where she has surfaced from, but I predict that putting your money on a political course represented by her "beliefs", as she put it, will not give success to the Republicans the next time - that era of ultra-hardcore conservatism is over, like is socalled neoconservatism since quite a while already. It began to dominate in the 80s, with Reagan, and now has been brought to an end, in form of the Bush-years. Hasn't Clinton just lend a White House that wasn't his anyway, but by nature and moral legitimiation belonged to the Republicans, always? I currently see it as unlikely that this extreme conservatism will repeat itself so soon. MacCain was on the right way when tending to move away from the extreme right, and more towards the middle. Now his party and the followers of the party have to continue non that road. Their mistake was not that they moved too far into that direction,
but not far enough.