Seeking common cause with liberals...
In the immediate wake of Obama's victory, it concerns me to see some conservative leaders pursuing a strategy of seeking common cause with liberals - reaching across the aisle or being nice on the premise that we might convert them to our cause. Most of us have been raised to play fair, be nice and to take the high road. Unfortunately these are the primary reasons why we lost and are traits and characteristics that are not valued or respected by liberals or Islamic terrorists. I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE HAVE TO RESORT TO THEIR TACTICS. What I am saying is that we need an entirely new set of tactics to regain control. Forums like this and #TCOT are a great places to start hashing them out.
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Comment by Bekah on December 15, 2008 at 10:25pm
- Oh my I fully agree! Its really hard to handle seeing that many of the republican party seems to still not get it? Youre so right we lost based on a guy who we thought would be good bc he did dip in the middle. While thats good to be able to deal with the opposite side we tend to forget sometimes doing that means bowing down or having to make compromises. A compromise that tends to lead us astray from our party lines more than bringing us together. Hopefully with places like this the movement will become to huge to ignore!
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Comment by Alan Eason on December 15, 2008 at 6:50am -
I agree that we need a new set of tactics. One of the most disheartening things I watched over the past 20 years (since the end of the Reagan era) was the moving of the conservative Republican power base towards a power-broker style of politics rather than a conservative groundswell style.
We are all about ideas and principles. Voicing and debating those ideas and principles is the heart of not only American politics, but of America itself.
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