Thread: Why Republicans are Abandoning the GOP

Why Republicans are Abandoning the GOP

by STEVE DEACE on JULY 3, 2013

While the topic of conservatives potentially abandoning the Republican Party remains on the front burner, a new study has been released that explains why some have already bolted.

The study, commissioned by a conservative market research group, applied “scientific methods of qualitative research” to find out why some Republican-leaning voters are abandoning the GOP.

For example, last year Mitt Romney turned out fewer whites, Catholics, and evangelicals than even John McCain did in 2008, and did worse with Mormon voters than George W. Bush did in 2004. To compensate for the loss of a sizable chunk of his base and win the election, Romney would’ve needed an unattainable 72% of that Hispanic vote currently getting so much attention.

After researching a sample of disaffected Republican voters the study drew four conclusions that were strangely missing from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’ much-hyped “autopsy” that basically any MSNBC commentator could’ve written. I’m sure it was just an accidental oversight on Reince’s part.

1) Voters are tired of “voting for the lesser of two evils.” This was actually true of both conservatives and moderates. These voters were no longer persuaded that supporting a bad Republican candidate over any Democrat was the right thing to do.

2) Voters lost hope in the Republican Party and believe the party can no longer deliver on its promises because its leaders lack courage and integrity. According to Anne Sorock, the author of the study’s conclusive report, “the lack of perceived leadership by principle was strongly connected to this sense of loss.”

3) Voters now preferred what the report described as an “affiliation with a new community” that would pursue its principles – which was primarily the Tea Party.

4) Voters feel what the report characterized as a “perceived betrayal by the GOP establishment.” Specifically, Sorock says that when party leaders attacked a candidate they liked these disaffected Republican voters across the ideological spectrum took it as a personal slight and that they weren’t welcome in the party.

To bring these crucial base voters back into the fold, the report concluded that Republicans should “strive to create a community around shared principles” rather than attacking grassroots candidates with “lesser of two evil” (i.e. electability) arguments.” The report went on to say the GOP’s problems are not only, or even primarily, philosophical but with the party’s leadership itself.

That is spot on if you ask me.

For years I believed the divide in the party was conservatives versus moderates. Then I thought was social conservatives versus fiscal conservatives. Then I thought it was conservatives versus libertarians.

Then I realized that’s all a distraction.

The divide in the party isn’t ideological at all – it’s based purely on control. All the ideological debates among us are intended to keep us distracted from the real problem. Oh sure, I disagree with libertarians and other conservatives all the time. But out here in the grassroots we actually agree on the primary purpose of the Republican Party—to advance the general principles in the party platform and offer the country a stark contrast to the statism offered by the Democrats.

However, there are those like Karl Rove who would rather lose elections than lose control of the party, and they’re against anyone that threatens their powerbase by empowering the grassroots. So they don’t like Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or even a moderate like Rudy Giuliani when they run for president. Despite the fact all of these men have various issue and ideological differences. That’s also why they despise grassroots champions like Sarah Palin and barely tolerate conservative talk radio.

They understand an empowered grassroots threatens their control of the party apparatus, and they need control of the party apparatus because there’s no more room at the Democrat Party Inn. So if they’re going to use gangster government to line their own and their crony capitalist buddies’ pockets they’ve got to reverse the jersey and control Team GOP instead.

I don’t agree with a Giuliani-type moderate on a whole host of issues. In a national primary I would work hard to beat him (and did). But while he’s my ideological opponent he’s not my political enemy. A Giuliani would actually take the fight to the Democrats on an issue or two—like defeating radical Islam, for example. A Giuliani-type moderate may philosophically disagree with you on lots of other things, but he sees himself as part of a broader coalition. Therefore, he’s not going to use the party apparatus to thin his own herd like the Romulans tried to do at the rules committee prior to the convention last year.

The GOP ruling class believes in nothing but themselves, which is why they’re more ruthless in primaries against their fellow Republican than they are in general elections against Democrats. This also explains why they’re hemorrhaging their own voters, and why they just don’t seem to care about it as they allegedly pursue all voters except those that might actually vote for them.
It’s why they lie, shamelessly repeat often-debunked fallacies, and are more comfortable talking to George Stephanopoulos than they are talking to you.

These people would rather lose elections than lose control of the party, so they’ll ignore studies like this. They want you to stick around provided you shut your hole and know your role—which is to shut up and vote for their approved candidates.

If you threaten to leave the party they pay it no mind, because you’re just a booty call to them. It’s not like they’re in this for any higher calling like preserving freedom and liberty. They’re flat-out gangsters, and gangsters produce gangster government like TARP and scamnesty.

You can’t affiliate, partner, or reason with gangsters like this. You either replace them or start your own gang.

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For example, last year Mitt Romney turned out fewer whites, Catholics, and evangelicals than even John McCain did in 2008, and did worse with Mormon voters than George W. Bush did in 2004. To compensate for the loss of a sizable chunk of his base and win the election, Romney would’ve needed an unattainable 72% of that Hispanic vote currently getting so much attention.

and the DUMB ASSES in the GOP are still not listening

<---- Karl Rove: Buffoon / King of the Dumb Asses

The Democrat party has moved to the extreme left(note: You never hear media talking about extreme left just extreme right)progressives within the GOP feel they must move to the left in order to attract voters but the truth is they are losing there base,Carl Rove has been a big force in this effort working to sabotage true conservatives, no doubt if they continue down this road we will see a third party.

The GOP is doomed itself with the anti abortion and anti gay stance quite honestly. These 2 issues are the reason keeping moderate conservatives and independents from voting Rep. If the GOP a number of years ago could have gotten off those 2 issues and said simply "we don't like abortions and we don't like the idea of gay marriage but we don't feel its our place to tell other people what to do in their life" and leave it at that the GOP would have been in much better shape. But look at all the issues we face and they still keep going after abortions, they keep going after gay marriage. How about real issues.

But of course the real reason is we don't have a 2 party system, that died a long time ago. We have the illusion that is put infront of us to keep us distracted while its really a 1 party system and either you play ball or you get put out. Americans no longer have a choice and the push on the Tea Party is an attempt to bring back the choice. Yet the Tea Party keeps getting focused by radicals in the TP who bring up the same age old issues of abortions and gays trying to pull the TP off course and blow the wind out of its sails.

One must accept the far left will always vote far left, the far right will always vote far right. Put your politicians more towards the center of the side they are on and that's how you win. But they have to be able to be trusted and neither party now has the credientials to be trusted.