Frankeneinstein
Gold Member
There is one thing about the right wing of the Republican party aka (Tea Party member) that they never think about. How do we win the White House. This is usually the last consideration, (if at all that they think about.) Most of them live in conservative states--where most of the candidates they select can win a district, or house seat, or even possibly a U.S. Senate seat--but if an election goes past the state line--they're blind.
A Tea Party member does not know that the Republican Party is the minority party at 41 million, Democrats are stronger at 46 million, and Independents make up for largest voting block in this country, representing 40% of the entire electorate.
For quite some time, a Tea Party member's only news sources comes from 3 or more daily hours of right wing talk radio, and political entertainment programs on FOX news. They typically know nothing else, other than what they have been told by these right wing talk show hosts. If they read anything it will come out of a right wing news site, which of course is written by the right wing. Any other news source is not believed.
They've been repeatedly told that Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election because he was not conservative enough. Why shouldn't they believe it, it came out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth on many occasions and probably several other right wing shows. But the truth is Romney's fate was sealed long before he even became the nominee. Accomplished by the Evangelical wing of the party dragging abortion, who's not going to pay for birth control pills, and what is "legal Legitimate rape" questions, which OFFENDED women into Obama's column. Republicans lost women by double digits, younger women by 36 points. This is what secured a 2nd term for Barack Obama.
Why Romney Lost And Republicans Keep Losing
The GOP's woman problem goes beyond Trump
How women ruled the 2012 election and where the GOP went wrong - CNNPolitics.com
Regardless though, they didn't know they had a woman problem, they were never told that. They have believed for 4 years that they needed a more conservative candidate. So they found one. His name is Ted Cruz. They have followed him around cheered him on, donated a lot of money to him. Why? Because right wing talk show hosts supported him. "He's conservative enough to win the White House, they think." Ted Cruz would never win Independents or women. He has a far right stance on abortion. This country is center, it always has been, it always will be. Ted Cruz also has another huge problem. He was born in Canada. Now certainly the Tea Party knows that for 4 long years they, along with right wing talk show hosts, and Donald Trump hounded Obama for a birth certificate. He finally produced one showing himself born on U.S. soil, to shut them up. What does the Tea Party do next? They put up a candidate to run for POTUS that was born in Canada. This has to come from a group that is so politically inept--to actually believe that there would be no blow back by supporting a candidate that was actually born in Canada.
So enter Donald Trump. He and his supporters have already managed to chase off another 17% of the population, when Republicans needed at least 46% of this block to win the White House. They are now solidly in the Democrat column. Trump is polling at a negative 75% with Hispanics.
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study
Latino conservatives: If Donald Trump is the nominee, we will not work to elect him
Poll: 75% of Latinos Have Negative View of Donald Trump
So you have the largest voting block (women) that were chased off in 2012, which secured a 2nd term for Barack Obama. Now in 2016 another large voting block (Hispanics) are now in the Democrat column.
It doesn't matter who the GOP nominee is now--the Tea Party has already rino'd itself right into a Hillary Clinton Presidency before the first primary ballot was even cast. And frankly with these numbers it would not surprise me to see Republicans lose the Senate and a ton of seats in the house. What the Trump supporter failed to realize is that Republicans across the entire southwest of this country depend on Hispanics to win elections. Without them, they lose.
