C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Because a majority of Americans reject the conservative agenda, where those Americans live in states that will decide who the next president will be.No ? Why not ?it was done last November, and the left has been making things worse for itself since then (Ferguson, Iran, ISIS, immigration, cop-hating, etc)Even your God Reagan made overtures towards the middle and raised taxes when necessary, supported gun control and nuclear disarmament
Would Cruz do the same?
I don't even know what the fuck you are talking about when you say "overtures toward the middle."
I predict Cruz is not going to do a damn thing you will like or appreciate... How's that?
Conservatism gets a bad rap because little militant mush-brain liberals like you get to run around distorting reality and turning Reagan into a tax-raising, gun-controlling, anti-nuke activist... and you fuckwits control the media.
What conservatives have been missing is a strong national voice who can explain conservative philosophy to the millennials and delineate for others the nuanced difference between a philosophy and ideology. Is Cruz that person? I don't know, we'll see in time.
But this "overtures toward the middle" bullshit needs to be confronted and challenged... exactly what in the hell are you talking about? Because it sounds like what you want is for Cruz to turn into Lindsey Graham or John McCain and capitulate to Democrats on things while falling all over themselves to apologize for being out-of-touch conservatives. I don't think Cruz plans to do that.
Why do conservatives live in their own little world and believe that political realities do not apply to them?
The political reality is that staunch conservatism will help you win red states. Republicans already win red states.
If you want to be President, you need to win two out of three battleground states. To do that, you need to steal the moderates away from the Democrats
Holding firm to your conservative values will not do that
What was done in November does not correlate to a Presidential election and winning electoral votes
November 2014 was not representative of the Nation as a whole – only a third of those eligible to vote voted, republicans voting in red districts in red states is not representative of the Nation as a whole, where the larger voter turnout in General Elections is indeed representative of the Nation as a whole, this is why republicans have in fact done poorly in the last two General Elections. There's nothing indicating 2016 will be any different, particularly if HRC is the democratic nominee.