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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
They are an example of how the GOP has, in the long-term, shot itself in the foot in order to make short-term electoral gains. Over the long-haul all of the Tim Day's in the world won't move the black or queer votes in the direction of the GOP as long as the party continues to espouse positions that are either passively or actively hostile to those communities.
Cheers
Aj
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Yes. The short-term gains frustrate me, but, I do believe they are short-term and will be short-lived.
My older sister is Republican (and a Nevada resident where Harry Reid is up for re-election against a tea-bag backed candidate), has some tea-bag mentality (although, my being queer does bring her back, at times- I see the wheels turning when I talk about many things in my life to her- we were estranged for many years). Yet, she does see the "crazies" as just that and doesn't want to be put in that pile. Since she is 74 years old, what the GOP once represented is part of her experience as well as when she was home with a labor sided Democratic father and mother that were unskilled farm workers while she was a small child.
I keep thinking that the Independents will eventually swing back to a more moderate to liberal stance as the mid-terms close in. Frankly, I don't believe the Dems will lose as many congressional seats as predicted. And some new data is showing this. But..... this is no time for complacency. Especially since the health Care reform legislation is getting bad press BEFORE it is phased in and the real benefits in the long-term are actually felt. And they will be if it is not chopped to hell between now and 2012.
Part of me believes that Obama was right on by going for health care reform even in the midst of our economic mess. Yet, this cost the Dems in the short-tem with the mid-terms. But, I don’t believe as much as the right-wingers believe.