All is not lost...demographics may save us

[mamabearCali]

Before we sing a round of "Woe is me all is lost" let us consider this article.

Basically it says that demographics and time is on the GOP's side....if they have the sense to use their heads for more than hat racks!

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorial ... ration.htm

So hang on to your hats. Go forth and multiply and fill the earth with gun toting conservatives (or at least gun toting libertarians!).

[jmra]

Very interesting.

[Redneck_Buddha]

Yes! The Republicans will save us! Stolen from AGAW.

[jmra]

The republicans are coming! The republicans are coming!

[SF18C]

When are they gonna do something to save us?

And then there is this

Thousands Of Out-of-State Voters Found On Alaska’s Voter Registry
http://www.westernjournalism.com/thousa ... map=%5B%5D" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And this


These 11 States now have More People on Welfare than they have Employed!
Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U..S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What’s the problem with that much support?
Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.

[gthaustex]

The main problem I see with their logic is that they assume that all the people moving to conservative states are going to vote conservative. My guess is that they moved because they wanted the better life, but will continue to vote as liberals and will eventually trash the conservative states as well through their voting. Then there won't be anywhere else to move.

[baldeagle]

Before we sing a round of "Woe is me all is lost" let us consider this article.

Basically it says that demographics and time is on the GOP's side....if they have the sense to use their heads for more than hat racks!

Well there you go. All is lost!

[JALLEN]

Republicans have to have a super-majority to win. The danged Democrats are so enthusiastic even their dead guys vote, and the live ones 3 or 4 times in some places. You can't be enthusiasm like that!

[mamabearCali]

The main problem I see with their logic is that they assume that all the people moving to conservative states are going to vote conservative. My guess is that they moved because they wanted the better life, but will continue to vote as liberals and will eventually trash the conservative states as well through their voting. Then there won't be anywhere else to move.

Maybe...you never know. I know several conservatives that are moving to leave the nastiness there.

To be fair I don't think the article said the GOP will save us. Rather it said that religious people may save the GOP, if he GOP does not mess it up.

[baldeagle]

In all seriousness (given my last post), conservatives have built a firewall in the Senate, with Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Mke Lee and others, that will work against the Republican establishment. Seeing Mitch McConnell claim to sign up for the gun control filibuster has to send shivers down the establishment's spines, even moreso than the 13 already signed up. McConnell has been a reliable wimp vote for some time with only glimpses of a real man from time to time.

The conservatives are winning the battle. Unfortunately, they have many more fights ahead of them, but their behavior so far is encouraging. They seem unafraid to fight and uncowed by the media's savaging of them. If they can hold the line until 2014 and we can gain a few more then, the battle will be well on the way to being won. The Republican Party will not be the one we have now but one with more principles and more guts.

[mamabearCali]

As the good lady Thatcher said sometimes you have to fight he battle more than once to win it.

[gthaustex]

The main problem I see with their logic is that they assume that all the people moving to conservative states are going to vote conservative. My guess is that they moved because they wanted the better life, but will continue to vote as liberals and will eventually trash the conservative states as well through their voting. Then there won't be anywhere else to move.

Maybe...you never know. I know several conservatives that are moving to leave the nastiness there.

To be fair I don't think the article said the GOP will save us. Rather it said that religious people may save the GOP, if he GOP does not mess it up.

I would love for my assessment to be wrong. I hope and pray that the article is correct and my cynicism is misplaced in this case. Perhaps those that are moving are not only more conservative as you suggest, but are also in many cases the wealth generators who are fleeing the taxes and regulations on their businesses. I would gladly welcome those individuals with open arms.