Jackson Jambalaya

The GOP is it's worst enemy. Once they figure out that the vast majority of America doesn't really give a rip, for example, about gay marriage or prayer in public schools, they'll get off their bandwagon and start addressing the real issues people care about. Namely, the economy, jobs, exploding deficits and the corruption in Washington, DC. I'm been voting for the GOP for over 40 years and lately, all I can count on is that sooner or later, the Republican candidate for President will come up short. McCain and Romney, is that the best we can do???

7:13
If the vast majority of Americans don't care about gay marriage, why is it that whenever the issue of approving gay marriage is put to a vote, it is overwhelmingly defeated? Even California, one of the most "progressive" states defeated it. Only the courts force that issue on the citizens. Try to change the facts much?

The republicans will never win another presidential election. Because stupid people vote for stupid people for stupid reasons. In other words, stupid people (democrats) vote for stupid people (democrats and crooks like Hillary) for stupid reasons (free stuff).

When the republicans learn to address this, they may have a chance. Until then, get ready for President Sanders (or Clinton)

I find it hard to understand why Republicans have control of 2/3 of the State Legislatures, 31 or so Governorships, the Senate and the House of Representatives yet cannot win a Presidential election. I think it is because of the "Old Guard" candidates. Trump or Cruz have the best chance in '16. They are conservative like Obama is liberal. Those fence sitters will lose......again.

8:25 apparently hasn't been paying attention to trends. While it my be true that the liberal's favorite pet social issues like gay marriage have consistently been defeated in referenda, the trend is that the margin of defeat has fallen precipitously. Our culture is quickly falling away from traditional values and mores. 7:13 is correct, politically, when he/she suggests that traditional campaign approaches are no longer successful in general elections. Hell, the most popular candidate on the "republican" side has very little in common with the "moral majority" of yesteryear.

The Pubs have had years to groom a viable candidate, now it looks like we'll have alah trump. I don't like or trust the don, but will vote for him vs a democrap. Is he electable? I have serious doubts. Regardless, we are doomed again.

Unless Trump or Cruz are the nominee I'm randomly voting for any of the 3rd party candidates. FUCK the RINOs.

Me thinks the cultural trendwatcher @ 8:48 would posit that the "trend" of radical Islamic death violence is also on the wane. They've stopped outright throwing gays off the roofs of buildings and the trend of gay heads getting summarily detached via blade from their torsos is also trending downwards. The Iranian gays have it much better. They are only hung by the neck to die.

8:48
While the margin of defeat may have fallen precipitously, it is still defeat. Yes, the trend is that traditional values have been moved away from, and I find that heartbreaking.
As for the GOP, they are as much at fault as anyone for the explosion of debt, job losses (remember NAFTA and that giant sucking sound of jobs moving to Mexico?) and corruption. There is very little difference in the establishment GOP and the Democrats.
I agree with the sentiment posted by 8:51.

9:00, 8:48 here. Go look up the latin phrase non sequitur. Your post was a brilliant and inspired example of same.

I think 8:51 just explained why the Republicans can't win a Presidential election----It's that school ground mentality "If you aren't going to play my way then I won't play at all" That gave us a second Obama term and it will give Hillary a first term !!

Republicans acted like they cared about the deficit...then W came along. He spent more money than any democrat could on war and social programs. He carpet bombed with hundreds.

That's when traditional republicans had enough. They realized that R and D were the same in DC when it came to fiscal matters and social matters for that much.

so the R base went back to basics. Hate black people, gays, latinos, etc. That hate metric was picked up by Koch Brothers (and like people) and they thought they could have major influences in politics...and it worked really. Governors and state houses are filled with Rs.

Problem now is you have Trump who is unmanageable. He will not be the go to guy for big banks and business....well...nobody knows for sure......and certainty is why these people spend billions to elect their people.

Economy crashes....look for hate to rule. Gays will be in peril. Immigrants will be in peril. Muslims will be hunted. And Democrats will be hard to come by.

Look for president Bernie. How many states are really 'in play'? 7?

The GOP can't win the Presidency until it stops fragging its base in the back. There is no difference between the Democrats and the RINOs.

toejangle, feel free to whore yourself out.

This is a serious question. Does anyone really think there is a difference in a democrat and a republican? There might be a few minor differences but they are mostly the same.
All politicians, both sides, have put us into debt so deep our grand children could not get us out even if they paid a 100% tax rate. It wasn't one party that did that. It took both.
Politicians have no idea what is good for the average citizen as they were never average citizens.
The voters will continue to argue that one party is better than the other and the people will continue to suffer their ignorance.
There should be an IQ test for voters. We have tests for just about every other thing but not for the most important thing, choosing our leaders. We usually let the people who cannot spell their own name elect our leaders.

To 10:24 am
Stand up a little straighter your knuckles are dragging

To 10:33 am Thank You !! Excellent Post !!

Not only did Romney do better in the swing states, he also did better nationally than McCain. Romney got more popular votes than McCain (60.93 million to 59.95 million). The "4 mm vote gap" was based on the first returns on election night and was not the final vote count (e.g. Absentees, slow reporting precincts, etc).

Kingfish is right to focus on the swing states. But even before getting to that point, the continued misrepresentation of the actual voting results by conservative media to perpetuate the myth that the lack of a base turnout cost us the 2012 election is irresponsible and does harm to the cause of winning in 2016.

Source of actual results: uselectionatlas.org

How is it that a member of a political party will demand a member of the other political party be put into prison for some act but then turn around and defend a member of their own party for doing the exact same thing? Are the voters really that ignorant? Are their morals really that low?
We need to do away with all political parties. Let the people run on their own qualifications. Make things simple and honest.
When we have an election for president the person with the most votes is president. The person with the next highest number of votes is vice president.

Don't worry @1:57 PM. The RINOs are doing everything possible to lose the 2016 election without needing any help from the "conservative media". There will be no need to trot out any myths this time around.

8:25 is right. 7:13 is wrong. There are a large number of people who still think that right and wrong cannot be molded like play-dough. The social issues speak to who we are as a people.

7:13, right and wrong varies quite a bit from person to person. Something that is right for one person is wrong for another person. The problem we have is some people think they are allowed to decide what is right and wrong for everyone. That is one case when that person is very wrong no matter who they are.

In 2011 I was shocked and dismayed with a long time friend
claimed she would never vote for a Mormon. I asked would
you rather be voting for the same person who had just about ruined
America? How stupid can people be?

The context and timing are important. In 2008 the Republicans were paying the price for Iraq and Bush's miserable approval ratings.By 2012 Obama gave voters stuff to be mad about.

I give no credit to Mitt being a better candidate.

Sort of funny. People voted for Obama because they were tired of the Iraq wars. Now we are still in Iraq and several other countries. Our military can't even whip a street gang.

Couldn't resist - have to put my 2cents worth in the mix. The GOP positioned and fully supported two milk-toast candidates in 2008 and 2012. No fight in them. They were scared to death of the PC crowd. And now the PC madness has come to a boil. Why is Trump doing so well? Simple really, he is saying what many think but fear to say. He is poking the GOP leadership in the eye which is what many conservative voters want. In the past most had no where to go but the GOP establishment candidate(s). This time is different. And the beauty of Trump is you never know what he will say! And that terrifies his opponents. Why? Because he will drag them into the mud kicking and screaming. When wrestling with a pig you are both going to get nasty...but the pig loves it. And Trump is the King of Pig Wrestling. This is going to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

The most laughable concept in this whole debate is that the Trump/Cruz folks claim that they 'are the base' and that everyone else is a RINO. Much of the support being shown for these two come from folks that haven't voted in years along with many Dems. But yet, they claim to be the "republican base" and anybody else that won't play ball with them in their sandbox with their toys and by their rules can just go to hell as far as they are concerned.

No wonder the Republicans have trouble winning national elections. The Dems have everybody voting en mass whether they are from the far, far left through to the middle left. But in order to get a majority by using the conservative side the ones to the far right demand everyone move to them or else they are going to bail out just to see if they can cut off their nose to spite their face.

And to top it off - Trump hasn't said or done anything yet to show what his political stance is. Historically he sure hasn't been the conservative he is trying to claim now without specifics or facts, yet a large part of his support doesn't give a damn. They just like the fact he will insult anyone that gets around him just so he can show off his entertainment ability.

@9:20 sounds like that idiot Frank Corder.

Much of the support being shown for these two come from folks that haven't voted in years along with many Dems.

Show us.

... anybody else that won't play ball with them in their sandbox with their toys and by their rules can just go to hell as far as they are concerned.

You've just described the Mississippi Republican Party to the letter.

Trump hasn't said or done anything yet to show what his political stance is.
Please don't tell us you actually believe all of the lies other politicians tell us when they tell you what their political stance is?
You can't possibly be that ignorant. But then you probably still vote for the party instead of the person.

Thad Cochran has told Mississippi for his entire time in Congress that he is against budget deficits. Then Senator Porkulus votes for more deficits every single time.

Thad does not know where he is most of the time. It would be nice to know who actually is making the decisions for him. He isn't led around by the arm for nothing.