MARK CUBAN: Here's What Republicans Should Do Next

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Really. Because that pretty much describes Obama to a T.

And Obama actually lost the independent vote in 2012.

It's all about the base.

Anyone who roots for the shit hole in Eugene is suspect at best.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Really. Because that pretty much describes Obama to a T.

And Obama actually lost the independent vote in 2012.

It's all about the base.

Obama an elitist?? More GOP propaganda.

 

[Jagger69]

Romney didn't run on conservative social issues and McCain certainly didn't. The last GOP candidate who appealed to the conservative base won two terms.

Can it happen again? Maybe, maybe not. But that is the only chance IMO. Going moderate just hasn't worked.

I agree. Therefore, I see someone like Ted Cruz rising to the top for the republicans before it's all said and done. Their only hope is to really energize their base and hope that apathy on the left allows their nominee to be elected. Stranger things have happened.

 

[Rey C.]

Didn't Mitt Romney steer clear of social issues? He focused on jobs and the economy from what I remember.

So which is it?

Yeah, he did. But he did a dreadfully bad job of focusing on jobs and the economy. The one issue where Romney could have swayed someone like me his way... he fucked that up too. Same with McCain (who I used to like). In addition to picking that chattering community college idiot from Alaska, he enlisted Phil "Enron" Gramm as a chief economic advisor and admitted that he didn't really understand economic issues very well. Good grief man!

But I agree with Cuban that in order for the GOP not to get constantly called out by the liberal media outlets, it's going to have to run silent & run deep. Any reasonable, rational GOP candidate will be ignored. But the thick-heads and morons (Palin, Bachmann, et al) will be headliners every time they open their pie holes on Faux News. Outside of the blood red states, the GOP (as an organization) just doesn't get it. They have a very hard time connecting with people who don't live in trailers and have IQ's higher than a burned out light bulb. It's OK to speak to the tighty righties in the TEA party and the evangelical/zionist religious right. But to win a national election, they'd do well to speak to those of us who are social libertarians with a nationalistic skew on foreign policy issues, and somewhat more conservative on economic issues.

I don't want to see Ted Cruz as President anymore than I want to see Hillary Clinton. But until the GOP can break free of the "love us or leave us" wingnuts on the far right and become a big tent party again (why worship Reagan like a deity if you refuse to follow his successful strategy???), that's probably close to the sad choice we will be facing in 2016. God help us all.

 

[Rey C.]

Really. Because that pretty much describes Obama to a T.

And Obama actually lost the independent vote in 2012.

It's all about the base.

How big and where is "the base" located? What good does it do to win Texas by even 99% if you lose Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio by even 1%?

In national elections, it's all about the math.