Re-Alignment of Party Priorities
By
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist
LIKE A LOT of conservatives, I won’t be voting Republican in the congressional elections this fall. Admittedly, I won’t have a choice — in Massachusetts, Republican candidates for Congress generally spare voters the trouble of defeating them by not bothering to run in the first place.
But millions of conservatives will have a choice. And the closer Election Day draws, the clearer it becomes that plenty of them will choose not to vote Republican. Unless something changes dramatically — and soon — the GOP is poised to lose its most reliable voters, and with them any hope of keeping its congressional majority.
So goes it in this oped, here OnTheBorderLine by yours truly, across the Badger State, and nationally. The left is giddy. However, I still predict that the GOP will retain a majority in both the House and Senate. That’s how it works folks. I just highly doubt that the core will abandon the party. There is nothing for them as an honest alternative. I don’t like the term “Worst of two evils” to describe how people will be voting and like to think of it as a re-alignment of priorities. That is what is happening to the GOP. If anything, I think the latest policy differences are moving more to the right than more to the center. And one last thing, I certainly don’t like any of the the ideas of the socialist progressives.
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I think most of the polling (if you believe in polling) suggests that if the elections were tomorrow, a politically significant number of GOP supporters would be staying home, or voting with selective abstention in mind.
Jacoby’s article is now becoming common thought, thanks for linking that one in here..
Peggy Noonan is on to it, we are on to it, and soon the average voter will be talking about it….
Read Peggy’s article today – in my view, she is one of the most perceptive people in the media.
It looks like Noonan envisions a political Tucker automobile. Bucking the Demorcat and Republican parties with its built-in infrastructure is a tremendous undertaking. Ross Perot and, closer to home, Jesse Ventura were well known and in their own venue, had the money to do it almost on their own.
Both of them self-destructed.
Sorry to resurrect this old post, but I can’t post new ones yet. I’m curious what everyone thinks of the party’s adoption of the whole gay marriage issue. Is that a platform priority in everyone’s opinion?
Josh, what does your minister or priest think? I’m curious.
Josh, you might want to read this one too.
Max thanks for the link to bill’s post, I was quite impressed by it. What does everyone else think? I’m thoroughly intrigued by this issue.
Chris, my pastor is certainly in favor of bans prohibiting gay marriage. What I’m curious about is the republican party vs. the conservative outlook on the issue…
I’d like more opinons here…
Also.. any opinoin on the controversy over the two sentences on this proposed ban?
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