VWJOE,
Your verbosity hurts my eyes. Some of those fonts can be seen from the moon - what up with that???
Anyhoo...here's my verbose reply:
First, regarding your "Reagan formula electoral success strategy" - the GOP targeting today's Democrats and independents as a winning strategy. Not a chance. Back then your party wasn't the total socialist party it is now, there's a totally different dynamic at play. Since you love childish analogies, here's one: you wouldn't bet the Browns to beat the Chargers today based on a trend that happened 30 years ago, would you? Different dynamic. The "electoral math" theory you keep regurgitating is very narrow minded - the type of thinking you get from highly-paid out of touch political consultants.
The larger point I'm making is this: properly articulated, conservatism isn't ideological (unlike say, your beloved statism: Govt Uber Alles) because conservatism is simply the natural state of man. They called Reagan the "Great Communicator" because everything he said made sense regardless of how people identified themselves ideologically. Reagan had a degree in economics, so there's no question he understood the complex inner-workings of the economy, but Reagan also had a rare gift of taking incredibly complicated subjects and condensing them into simple sentences and sound bites people could relate to and understand - many that still resonate with Americans today:
"Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem"... just one example.
I see similarities in Trump. Right now, people aren't identifying Trump as a 'liberal' or 'conservative', just pro-American - what he's saying is making sense and resonating.
Most Americans aren't ideological, they just want ideas and policies that work. Conservatism works. Even you would vote for it, as long as Daily Kos, Jon Stewart, Mother Jones and ThinkProgress didn't tell you something or someone is too 'conservative'
"Electoral math" is for small thinkers who want to put every candidate (and every state) into an ideological, partisan box - red state vs blue state. He's too left, she's too right, nominate a moderate etc.
They're all wrong.
I prefer to think bigger:
Don't worry, I'm not offended. The fact is, much smarter individuals at the RNC don't get it either - which is why they keep losing.
Your verbosity hurts my eyes. Some of those fonts can be seen from the moon - what up with that???
Anyhoo...here's my verbose reply:
First, regarding your "Reagan formula electoral success strategy" - the GOP targeting today's Democrats and independents as a winning strategy. Not a chance. Back then your party wasn't the total socialist party it is now, there's a totally different dynamic at play. Since you love childish analogies, here's one: you wouldn't bet the Browns to beat the Chargers today based on a trend that happened 30 years ago, would you? Different dynamic. The "electoral math" theory you keep regurgitating is very narrow minded - the type of thinking you get from highly-paid out of touch political consultants.
The larger point I'm making is this: properly articulated, conservatism isn't ideological (unlike say, your beloved statism: Govt Uber Alles) because conservatism is simply the natural state of man. They called Reagan the "Great Communicator" because everything he said made sense regardless of how people identified themselves ideologically. Reagan had a degree in economics, so there's no question he understood the complex inner-workings of the economy, but Reagan also had a rare gift of taking incredibly complicated subjects and condensing them into simple sentences and sound bites people could relate to and understand - many that still resonate with Americans today:
"Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem"... just one example.
I see similarities in Trump. Right now, people aren't identifying Trump as a 'liberal' or 'conservative', just pro-American - what he's saying is making sense and resonating.
Most Americans aren't ideological, they just want ideas and policies that work. Conservatism works. Even you would vote for it, as long as Daily Kos, Jon Stewart, Mother Jones and ThinkProgress didn't tell you something or someone is too 'conservative'
"Electoral math" is for small thinkers who want to put every candidate (and every state) into an ideological, partisan box - red state vs blue state. He's too left, she's too right, nominate a moderate etc.
They're all wrong.
I prefer to think bigger:
Don't worry, I'm not offended. The fact is, much smarter individuals at the RNC don't get it either - which is why they keep losing.