FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
Republicans, if you give the voters a choice between a fake Democrat and a real Democrat, they're going to choose the real Democrat everytime (apologies to LBJ). I honestly believe that, even though this election was basically a wash for the Democrats anyway, had the Republicans run a more conservative candidate like Romney they'd be in a much stronger position. I think the logic for running McCain was something like, hey, we'll pick up the moderates and the conservatives will have nowhere left to go.
Well, that just isn't true. Although going moderate has proved successful in the past for some movements, like the Labour party in England (which has gone from being a Socialist party to an arguably centre-right party in just twenty years), those movements were backed by very strong leaders, against very weak opposition.
The fact is, that the centre in America isn't really much of a centre. They tend to vote wildly and change their beliefs often. If they see a candidate with conviction they will vote for him. They are not like the ideological voters (and I think they're retarded, but hey, that's me), and that's why the retreating to the center equation doesn't work with a weak candidate like McCain. Reagan won two huge landslides while being the most extremist candidate to have run for office in the past seventy-five years. The center, or, should I say, the independents, fell for him, even though he was in no way a center candidate.
Now I'm not necessarily saying you guys should run a goldwater every election. If you can find a moderate with conviction, who's a real leader, then by all means run him. McCain was not that candidate. And it's just the truth that such candidates rarely come from the center.
There is only one candidate in this election with any sort of conviction, only one candidate who looks like a leader, and that's Obama. And the center is falling to him.
Well, that just isn't true. Although going moderate has proved successful in the past for some movements, like the Labour party in England (which has gone from being a Socialist party to an arguably centre-right party in just twenty years), those movements were backed by very strong leaders, against very weak opposition.
The fact is, that the centre in America isn't really much of a centre. They tend to vote wildly and change their beliefs often. If they see a candidate with conviction they will vote for him. They are not like the ideological voters (and I think they're retarded, but hey, that's me), and that's why the retreating to the center equation doesn't work with a weak candidate like McCain. Reagan won two huge landslides while being the most extremist candidate to have run for office in the past seventy-five years. The center, or, should I say, the independents, fell for him, even though he was in no way a center candidate.
Now I'm not necessarily saying you guys should run a goldwater every election. If you can find a moderate with conviction, who's a real leader, then by all means run him. McCain was not that candidate. And it's just the truth that such candidates rarely come from the center.
There is only one candidate in this election with any sort of conviction, only one candidate who looks like a leader, and that's Obama. And the center is falling to him.
