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Seriously you are not comparing the price of a bomb from a drone to the cost of two full scale wars. To bring it back to topic though...... then you need to put forth an electable Republican candidate in the next election.
No candidate will ever be "electable" to fringe members of both parties, it's impossible. Left wing nuts will never approve of right wing candidates.
Tell that to Reagan. He ran as a solid conservative and won with two gigantic landslides.
People respond to honest conservatives, not the mush-mouthed moderates who pretend they are conservatives.
Election, after election, we get GOP, mush-mouthed candidates, who spend so much time trying to sound like moderates, and come off sounding like a watered down, politically correct version of Democrat-lite, and the conservative voters get disgusted and sit home, while the mushy moderate middle go for the real Democrat, who is playing Santa Claus.
I think you just made the case for Historiandude's point! Keep with that line of thinking and see what it gets you.
No candidate will ever be "electable" to fringe members of both parties, it's impossible. Left wing nuts will never approve of right wing candidates.
The problem is that those in the "center", that decide elections, don't like candidates that are extreme. The Republicans keep pumping out candidates that are too far right for the "center" to elect.
We're in the second half of an 8 year presidential cycle and the Democrat president has historically low approval ratings. We're also coming up on mid term elections where all signs are pointing to a complete slaughter for the left wing in this country.
Why are you left wing idiots putting up such horrible candidates that they can't even hold their seats or come out on top in any poll?
Seriously, Wendy Davis? Come on now, you guys can't be that stupid.
Congrats. The Republican Party will do well in November. The Dems are defending too many Senate seats in Red States, so you may well take the Senate. Take solace in that and in the 2016 primaries, vote for the most right wing cretin you can find. But alas, when 30-40 million more people vote in a presidential year, voters who are disproportionally minority voters, and when in the Senate it's the Republicans turn to defend seats in blue or purple states, don't expect the same level of success.The high water mark for the Republican brand is now in off year elections. The fewer people that vote, generally the better you guys do. Why do you think that the GOP has lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections? Voter fraud? Masses of "true conservatives" refusing to vote because their nominee isn't hard assed enough? Just maybe it's because your voters are dying off and not being replaced by sufficient numbers of younger voters. No that couldn't be it. There must be millions of Rip Van Winkle Republicans waiting for the Conservative Chosen One to appear and awaken them from their slumbers.
Please keep believing that, and continue to nominate candidates who are either too right wing to win swing voters, or like Romney have to veer so far to the right in the primaries that it's virtually impossible to retake the vital center.
I mean really Michelle Bachmann, Romney, Perry, Rand, and all those other idiots.
Remember in 2011, when Perry was the vaunted candidate-in-waiting who was going to announce his run, sweep the field aside, and march to the nomination?
On that note, consider this:
If Perry hadn't run for the 2012 nomination, these boards would be littered with claims like "Obama only won because Perry decided not to run! Man, Perry would've kicked Romney to the curb and then cleaned Obama's clock!".
And all I can say to that is...
"Oooooooops!"
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Keep with that line of thinking and see what it gets you.
