heh
that is what Schwenkler said to me.....he is waiting for the base "to come around". In the mean time Rush and Beck are tellin' the WECs what they want to hear and Palin is going to be your candidate.
How about you cowboy up and shape policy instead of letting the WECs force evangelical doctrine as your party platform?

dude, K-lo's Krazy Korner is the mirror of the base, not the leader of the base.

and you are seriously insane if you think the WEC base is going to be cool with Reihan being a muslim.

Charles is calling the base out.
I haven't noticed his traffic falling off.
All you guys do is pander.
Its ok, WECs (pat pat pat).
You aren't really homophobic racists.
You are really small goverment classic liberals.
;)

umm.....this post is about connecting with the base, E.D. not about connecting with K-lo's Krazy Korner.
You have to decide who your base is going to be.
If it is just WECs, okfine.
Tell the "dissidents" to sit and spin.

How you try this, E.D. ?
Instead of pandering to the base to avoid alienating them, you just explain that racism, homophobia, fascism, and lying and demogoguing are WRONG?

step away from the crack pipe, E.D.
Reihan is a MUSLIM.
lol.

I mean...you can have awesome conservative ideology...but if all you have as articulators of that ideology are homophobic creationist anti-intellectual stealth-racist WECs and Mormons, conservatism is a non-starter with youth, minorities, and the college educated.

Here is your reform conservative, Conor, cher.
His position is racists-fascists-homophobe-creationists-gtfo-of-our-party.
Because the racists-fascists-homophobes-creationists make it impossible to broaden the party's appeal to minorities, youth, and teh college-educated.
CJ is a machiavellian pragmatist like Obama.
;)

and the demographic timer goes tick...tick...tick....

hahahahahaha

for bob...

Their spring meadows
are desolate now. Still, desire
for them lives always
in our hearts, never dying.
These are their ruins.

But, we can defend Tom DeLay & co, at least to the extent that it seemed plausible that the economy would grow forever.

Again, a half century of inverse fitness selection for republicans too stupid to understand either basic economics or ToE .....has resulted party leadership too ...umm....IQ challenged to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Assrocket.....is that you?
So far this year the health insurance lobby has spent a quarter of a billion dollars lobbying against healthcare....hardly in the interest of consumers.

Republican devotion to what you call “the status quo” is what’s causing minorities, the young and the educated to abandon them.

No that is not what i said......i said they are NOT nihilists.....they believe passionately in maintaining the status quo.
Let me repeat....minorities are repelled by racists, either covert or overt.
People with college educations are repelled by creationists and the populist anti-intellectual themes of the GOP.
And youth are repelled by the uncool.
Cool has nothing to do with "trendy"....it has to do with the possibilities of creative destruction and novelty and chaos.

"traditional wisdom" is a core theme conservatism.
unfortunately that means they believe mechanisms and structures that worked successfully on the past will continue to keep working, even in the face of radical environmental change.

A humanist.....that is Reihan, that is the word I was looking for.

also, too.
The Republican sub-demes are ALL WHITE.
Which is why I don't think they can ever achieve electoral parity with the Democratic sub-demes.

they are NOT nihilists.

gak.
Reihan just believes the left side of the bellcurve deserves representation too.
That is what he is all about. Sappy egalitarian.
Two digit creationists and evangelical proselytizers, theocrats and homophobes, neo-nazis, white-supremecists, sessionists, neocon-revanchists, libertarian crypto-ancharchists, Reihan loves them all.....his heart is too big.
And perhaps someday all these sub-demes will achieve grouped electoral parity and take back power....but I don't think so....the demographic time on non-hispanic caucs.

The republicans are fighting for survival.
Any healthcare reform that passes will critically damage the GOP which is already ready reeling from the combined terminal onslaught of youth defection, demographic evolution, and college-educated defection.
They are nihilists....they believe passionately in the status quo.
And they will fight tooth and nail to maintain it.

More League of the South from Huff-po.
It is this simple....the GOP simply cant attract minorities with racists.
They cant attract the college-educated with creationists.
And they absolutely can't attract youth with teh uncool and clueless.

Let us embrace honesty.
The GOP is facing down demographic doom unless it can attract youth, minorities, and teh college-educated.
Creationist racist WEC candidates repell those demographics.
The way to attract blacks to the GOP is throw the racists out and instead of making excuses for them or pretending they don't exist.
Steele has no traction.....he is just a clown.

OTOH, I find Steele's earnest clueless naivite more palatable than slimy clever Larison's membership in the League of the South.
What in god's name are you guys thinking?

guys we have been over this.....i dont have to spell.
ima math major.

you gotta see this tho.....
i literally fell out of my chair.
lulz.

Have you considered.....that the GOP constiuency is simply the product of inverse selection fitness?
50 years of selection for people simply too stupid or too uneducated to understand either ToE or basic economics has resulted in a "low information" base that is simply not educatable?

October 1st, 2009 at 12:29 | #28 Reply | Quote
David Hume
Telling people they are stupid won’t change their minds — especially if they are stupid
this is a very good, and depressing point

lol.
how does one presuade people that simply don't have the substrate to be persuaded?

But its not worrrrrrrrking!
Lol.