richardhutnik on 22 September 2012
| Soleron said: They really want to run a socially conservative and rich-benefiting campaign, but the votes just wouldn't be there if they outright did. They need to change the people in charge and the senators to people with more moderate views if they want to appear united and yet still have a chance of winning. |
When the GOP has a motivated core, with a set of values they are not going to budge on in implementation, like the Tea Party, how can they afford to be able to run someone with more moderate views? They can't do this. End result is, a GOP candidate ends up having to shift much more to the right than would be viable on a national stage. The Democrats don't have a Tea Party equivalent, with Occupy failing to cooperate, so they will gravitate more conservative. And because the GOP is now set on running against Democrats, the GOP doesn't declare victory and go home, but keeps pushing. End result is the Democrats end up more in the middle and the GOP ends up putting itself out of the mainstream.
