It says a lot about the GOP if they can't even beat Obama.
I honestly don't know what it will take to beat some sense into this crop of UnConservatives. I would like to believe getting their asses handed to them by Obama, again, would wake them up to just how diseased and sick they are, but I am too cynical at this point.
The Republican Party has a big problem. On one hand, Republicans must kowtow to the far right of the party. If they don't, they lose some of those votes. On the other hand, by giving in completely to the far right agenda, they are driving moderates away. I am a prime example of this. After being a declared Republican for nearly 30 years, I have switched to the Democratic Party. At this point, as a moderate, I seem to be closer politically to the Dems than the Republicans.
You're not alone.
This just isn't the Republican Party any longer; it's the Tea Party.
The problem is, it isn't a natural TeePee who is leading them into battle but a yesteryear Republican like Boehner who is not so extreme.
Republicans are having problems all around the country in places where they're turfing their establishment candidates and finding a new crop of Christine O'Donnell's to put forward this year.
Look where the campaign money is going in terms of their ads. That's their "free speech", remember. What they say with their ads gives clues as to what they're doing and thinking. Mitt Romney is having trouble connecting with independents, but with his base, too. His last three ads have been about contraception (aka Obama's War on Religion), Obama not visiting Israel, and welfare (aka Obama just wants to give free money to black people).
You don't put a whole week's worth of ads like that in order to attract moderates. What was McCain's problem? The TeePees said he should have fought nasty. Take off the gloves and bloody Obama. Well, looks like Mitt is beginning to do that now, and it's because he's having to run two campaigns; one against Obama, and one sucking up to his base, who are a bunch of flighty motherfuckers who are so stupid, the minute you say something true or smart, they hate you (consider his staffer yesterday who got into huge trouble when she was responding about the Obama ad that implies that Mitt laying people off costs some folks their lives--she said that if the people had lived in Mass with Romneycare, they wouldn't have gotten the raw deal they did on health care because they were from Indiana).
See, Romney was supposed to run on how he's good, that even the President used his idea nationally and went with a conservative proposal on health care, not a liberal one.
But Romney can't run on his strengths now. Can't run on health care!
In the past couple weeks, national as well as state polls have miraculously cemented with only 6-8% of the country still undecided. Historically, we don't get to a number that low until late September or early October. It's at that point that you get your base out and hope for the best. You stop trying to appeal to what you don't have locked in anymore and just turn out the vote.
Well, Romney's doing that now, and I think that signals the turning point in this election.
The Republican nominee is basically not allowed to go out and court the middle, or else his base will fry him.
I actually kind of feel sorry for the guy. He's an injured candidate in a campaign that is a lot less organized on his part than what I would have thought from a guy with the business record he has.
But he's got no freedom because he has no balls. There have been several moments in the last two months where he should have just turned to the TeePees and said, "I'm courting Independent voters the next three months now because I need to put us over the top. So I'm gonna say some shit that's gonna make you scratch your head, but it's because I want to win more than I just want to say how foreign Obama is, you stupid, stupid base you."
If Mitt Romney can't stand up to a teabagger, than how the hell is he going to stand up to a fanatical dictator?
