Comments on: The Battleground Poll and Conservative Strength http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/01/29/the-battleground-poll-and-conservative-strength/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Panchito42 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/01/29/the-battleground-poll-and-conservative-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-36820 Panchito42 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:01:09 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/the-battleground-poll-and-conservative-strength/#comment-36820 Good news! The gist of the matter is, however, what we conservatives do with it, particularly when we so easily allowed the Democrats and the rest of the left successfully paint the economy as disastrous, the removal of Saddam Hussein as illegitimate and his legal execution as lynching, the freedom of 27 million Iraqis as insignificant, the arrival for the first time in the multi millenary history of Mesopotamia effective democracy as a Chimera, ongoing America’s efforts in Iraq as worthless and wicked, our brave soldiers as cold-blood murderers and gross morons, the detention of savagely murderous terrorists in Guantanamo as a Nazi concentration camp, the idiotically sophomoric hazing in Abu Ghraib as a Gestapo torture session, our beloved America as a pariah nation, and on and on. The media, as surrogates of the left, played a major role in that "painting" job (Remember Goebbels?); but we conservatives have the Internet and conservative talk-show radio. That should have sufficed to help mount a campaign to counter the ugly "painting" job, treat the Democrats with their own medicine, keep in line the Republicans in Congress, and demand from G.W. Bush to use his bully pulpit to convincingly convey to Americans the reasons why we MUST succeed in Iraq. Success in Iraq is an essentiality to win the rest of the global war on Islamo-Fascism, and therefore second to no other issue dear to conservatism. Good news!

The gist of the matter is, however, what we conservatives do with it, particularly when we so easily allowed the Democrats and the rest of the left successfully paint the economy as disastrous, the removal of Saddam Hussein as illegitimate and his legal execution as lynching, the freedom of 27 million Iraqis as insignificant, the arrival for the first time in the multi millenary history of Mesopotamia effective democracy as a Chimera, ongoing America’s efforts in Iraq as worthless and wicked, our brave soldiers as cold-blood murderers and gross morons, the detention of savagely murderous terrorists in Guantanamo as a Nazi concentration camp, the idiotically sophomoric hazing in Abu Ghraib as a Gestapo torture session, our beloved America as a pariah nation, and on and on.

The media, as surrogates of the left, played a major role in that “painting” job (Remember Goebbels?); but we conservatives have the Internet and conservative talk-show radio.

That should have sufficed to help mount a campaign to counter the ugly “painting” job, treat the Democrats with their own medicine, keep in line the Republicans in Congress, and demand from G.W. Bush to use his bully pulpit to convincingly convey to Americans the reasons why we MUST succeed in Iraq.

Success in Iraq is an essentiality to win the rest of the global war on Islamo-Fascism, and therefore second to no other issue dear to conservatism.

]]> By: tboots http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/01/29/the-battleground-poll-and-conservative-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-36662 tboots Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:40:41 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/the-battleground-poll-and-conservative-strength/#comment-36662 Interesting numbers. My job (sales manager for a local roofing company) provides me with ample opportunities to converse with local residents about a whole host of local, state, national and international issues. In working on various political campaigns for Republican candidates in the past, I have always been struck by the number of Democrats (as well as Independents) that are far more conservative than most people would probably guess. But since most of the Democrats around here try and stay as close to the middle as they can in order to try and appeal to "soft" Republicans and moderately-conservative to openly conservative Independents (and still get away with it with their more liberal base), they are probably more up to speed with what the "Battleground Poll" shows than those on our side of the spectrum. In fact, many of the local Republicans I've talked with since the '06 disaster keep telling me the party needs to "move to the center." Naturally, I always take the opposite view...that we didn't lose because we were "too conservative"...but because we weren't conservative enough and didn't stay true to our principles and philosophy. The GOP-led Congress strayed so far away from the goals and priorities set forth in 1994 that I was finding it increasingly difficult to justify many of their actions during these impromptu "in the field" conversations. But as I assess the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination for '08, I'm not very optimistic that our national leaders have truly gotten the message. Interesting numbers. My job (sales manager for a local roofing company) provides me with ample opportunities to converse with local residents about a whole host of local, state, national and international issues. In working on various political campaigns for Republican candidates in the past, I have always been struck by the number of Democrats (as well as Independents) that are far more conservative than most people would probably guess. But since most of the Democrats around here try and stay as close to the middle as they can in order to try and appeal to “soft” Republicans and moderately-conservative to openly conservative Independents (and still get away with it with their more liberal base), they are probably more up to speed with what the “Battleground Poll” shows than those on our side of the spectrum. In fact, many of the local Republicans I’ve talked with since the ’06 disaster keep telling me the party needs to “move to the center.” Naturally, I always take the opposite view…that we didn’t lose because we were “too conservative”…but because we weren’t conservative enough and didn’t stay true to our principles and philosophy. The GOP-led Congress strayed so far away from the goals and priorities set forth in 1994 that I was finding it increasingly difficult to justify many of their actions during these impromptu “in the field” conversations. But as I assess the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination for ’08, I’m not very optimistic that our national leaders have truly gotten the message.

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