Not saying CodeRed did anything wrong, just that we’re getting dangerously close to letting the moby dictate the terms of the conversation.

There is only one George Soros.

The same goes for Fiscal Liberal/Social Conservative. For the grand majority of people in this country, if you’re one, you’re the other. I haven’t caught Steve Forbes at any hash parties lately

Fiscal Conservative is the winning tack in ’10

Republicans need not change the stance on social issues to win with that. If anything it a difference between us and Democratst and establishes party identity.

We need not focus on social issues, but it doesn’t mean we need to turn into nihilists either.

As for Hoffman, Fox News wasn’t responsible for him. But they had to pay attention to him, and some commentators felt he was the better choice

The story got out of control when the Left pointed it out as a show of a divorce between Conservatives and the GOP.

It was wishful thinking then and it is wishful thinking now.

We’re actually better off with Owens in that seat. Dede was a prime candidate to switch parties the day after she took the oath.

Now stop peddling the stupid advice that we’re somehow better Republicans being more like Democrats in any way shape or form!

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, unless you want them to be, which you clearly do.

As for the Conservative Party, Hoffman ran with no support from a major political party and still shot out into the lead over Dede with a week left to election day. In fact there were polls that had him +4 over Owens with a day or so left

He’d have won it clean if the DIABLO had bowed out sooner.

As for the +20% Conservatives that vote Democrat or are Democrat…. You can’t be that naive.

Did it occur to you that many of them might just stay home??????
….Or do not register to a major political party.

http://www.redstate.com/brad_smith/2009/11/07/tuesdays-results-on-top-and-down-ballot-the-closer-you-look-the-worse-it-was-for-democrats

And if that is not enough, Google the info on Albuquerque’s mayor
and city council election results for this past October.

Regarding #3 NY23 makes my point. If the GOP wants to win back the house, senate and white house they need to win in districts that have a mix of social conservatives and fiscal conservatives that don’t vote on social issues. Social and Fiscal conservative can be mutually exclusive. Many fiscal conservatives dont care about the social issues they vote on their pocket book and common sense alone and we cannot leave them behind

1. Do you predict Republican losses or gains in 2010?

2. What percentage of the “current economic situation” does Obama bear responsibility for?

3. Does Israel have a right to exist?

2) The problem here is that there isn’t one.

…..And suggesting “career Republicans” be the arbiter of who that should be is just a non-starter. ” Career Republicans” advanced Dede Scozzafava in NY23.

If any real candidates surface , selecting who should be the national leader is way too important a job to leave to “Career Republicans”

3) Advice we can do without. The demographics in the country haven’t changed….unless we’re all now surrounded by gay people who want to marry their abortionist life partners.

Last year’s election just makes it look like it did. Lots of young people got interested. 9/10ths of them did so because the “Hope/Change” buttons were Hippie/Dippie hella-cool looking. The other 1/10th thought it’d be neat to have a black President

Do Democrats focus that they’re easy on criminals and soft on terror? No! They still get elected. And that’s because Dems know how to always change the subject from that.

We can still have ideological standards and get elected. Bob McDonnell didn’t compromise. He just didn’t focus on those issues. He changed the subject and it worked

….despite all the demographers telling us that Virginia was somehow suffocating itself blue.