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4 Reasons The GOP Would Be Foolish To Dump Social Issues

david1833 Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 8:39 AM

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.". The Dems are big on the caring emotion, the GOP fails to explain how their positions are also caring. 1) Dems give handouts as caring, GOP needs to sell fiscal conservancy as caring about the debt load on us and our children. 2) Dems sell proabotion as caring about the mother, GOP needs to sell caring about the baby, and especially how it is NOT a religious position that the conceptus is already a unique human being, not just analogous to a wart. 3) Dems sell environmentalism as caring about the earth, GOP needs to sell responsible development as caring about people. People NEED cheap energy, the cleaner the better but the cheaper the better too.

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Troglodite Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 9:50 AM

It is probably a sign of our overall decline that people who still have sense enough to want a doctor or a plumber or a mechanic who is competent, honest, and not too expensive want politicians who are clueless and crooked, who never met a chance to squander our money that they did not want to vote for, but who gush and gush how much they "care." Am I one of the few left who reacts negatively when someone whom I do not know personally tries to sell me the line that he cares for me?

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Tea Party in Wisconsin formerlyTea Party Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 11:18 AM

Nope but that is how the Looting usurper managed to steal the election, both of them.

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4 Reasons The GOP Would Be Foolish To Dump Social Issues

Win, lose or draw, we're always supposedly hitting a tipping point where social issues just no longer work for the Republican Party. At first glance, this would appear to be a rather puzzling sentiment. After all, in 2010, despite the fact that the GOP was just as socially conservative as we were this year, the Republican Party had its best year in half a century. Furthermore, in 2008 and 2012, the GOP lost despite running moderate candidates who were soft on social issues and who barely brought them up at all. If anything, you'd think that seeing two non-social conservatives...

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