Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:49:36 PM
After a GOP beating, there is always a debate between the people who want the party to become more principled and those who want to turn the GOP into a poll-driven pile of mush that they believe will be more appealing to centrists. The problem with this whole discussion is that the "we need to be more moderate" crowd tends to simply ignore a number of inconvenient facts that make their position completely untenable.
We've already gone the moderate route -- and lost. One of the
most surreal aspects of the post-2008 campaign is listening to
moderates pretend that the last eight years never happened.
You say that the GOP can't win as a small government party.
Well, we've already tried being a big government party for the last 8
years and it failed. You think running a moderate, pro-amnesty
candidate who eschews social issues is the key to winning elections?
Well, that's who we ran in 2008 and he received even less votes than
George Bush did in 2004.
Basically, we have a lot of moderates in the GOP taking the
same attitude that the Left used to take towards communism, "It works,
but it just hasn't been tried by the right people yet." It didn't make
much sense when the lefties were saying it and it makes even less sense
now.