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Mmmm ... no, one person has alluded to McAuliffe's version of Cuccinelli's position and called it Cuccinelli's. The fact that so many establishment Republicans and self-proclaimed Libertarians keep falling for these tactics says something. We keep letting the liberals change the meaning of words, rewrite history, ignore or rewrite traditions and culture, redefine where the "center" is and then we wonder why society keeps sliding left.
I direct your attention to this post:
https://www.ar-15.co/threads/118993-...=1#post1396969
Wherein Asmo stated:
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It was all over all the TV and radio advertisements here... Couldn't go a commercial break on any local channel without hearing it.
Now, admittedly, I'm going out on a limb here, and it's possible that Asmo is lying or misinformed, but I prefer to assume he's on the up-and-up and is correctly reporting things.
Furthermore, even if Cucinelli's isn't against those things, he's on the record as a strong social conservative, something that likely drove away female voters and those who don't buy into the political machinations of the God Squad. Even some rabidly pro-gun VA voters had second thoughts about Cuccinelli as seen here at one of the best blogs for gun issues as well as political coverage in VA:
http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/11/05/...e-in-virginia/
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Case in point, we not only let Democrats claim THEY are the center and moderates when we all know they've only gotten more extreme left-wing, people who take what used to be accepted as moderate/centrist positions loudly proclaim themselves as very conservative and vow to drive out the "moderate" Republicans. They do this even though we know a lot of people (whose votes we need) don't like to view themselves as on either edge. Fsck no, Chris Christie isn't a "moderate", he's a LIBERAL Republican (but Republican nonetheless). Fiscal responsibility, self-reliance, and moderately limited government are traditionally mainstream CENTRIST views but we let the liberals tell the uninformed public that anyone who believes in those core American values is a rightwing extremist.
Chris Christy is what's wrong with the Republican party, just as much as the Bible thumpers who only care about bashing gays and trying to repeal Roe v. Wade. Hell, I'll even vote for a Republican if he's pro gun and fiscal conservative first, and social conservative a distant second, but the sad fact of the matter is that most of the Republican candidates have seem to confused the church pulpit for the electoral soap box.
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Second case in point, the GOP used to be identified as true blue and Democrats were red. For some unexplained reason, this traditional color scheme that went back decades was suddenly flipped in the 1984 election. I'm not a mindreader nor party to any of the backroom editorial decisions of the 1980s but certainly the Democrats' desire to escape their traditional association with Reds/Communists is one workable theory. For whatever reason, conservatives not only accepted that sudden flip meekly but they loudly grabbed hold of it even though numerous studies have shown red conveys feelings of anger, instability and violence while blue conveys feelings of calm and stability. Instead of meekly accepting this change and talking about "red states", conservatives should have been hammering home the point that Obama, Pelosi and Reid are the Reds.
No disagreement here, though I don't think that the color change was quite as concentrated a conspiracy as you think. (Though I could be wrong.)
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Trying to start a new party is as losing a proposition now as it was in 1912. Obama and his ilk didn't start a new Proletarian Party, they took control of the existing Democratic Party which was nowhere near as extreme 20 or even 10 years ago as it is today. Conservatives need to take control of the Republican Party and use its infrastructure to win. Liberal Republicans like Christie and Lugar need to quit sneering at Tea Party Republicans and realize we all need to band together if we don't want an Obamanation.
The problem is that the Tea Party movement originally started as a call to arms for fiscal sanity, and about ten minutes later was co-opted by a bunch of Bible-carrying lunatics who'd just as soon handle snakes as get an immunization shot. I completely agree that the likes of Christie and Lugar need to go, but if they're going to be replaced by people who are the modern equivalent of members of the Flat Earth Society, I'm not interested in supporting them.
I have no delusions that the Libertarian party will rise to prominence, short of the Republicans completely imploding (a distinct possibility) and the Democrats screwing up so badly that their lapdogs in the media can't cover for them. That said, libertarian voters represent a distinct minority, but one that's close enough to swing elections in close races, and if the Republicans really want those votes, they should maybe stop fellating the Ted Haggards of the world and throw an occasional bone to the libertarian types.
I'm a sentient human being capable of rationally listening to the arguments in favor of voting for a Republican candidate, and I have voted for Republicans in the past, but if the R's can't muster an argument better than "OOOH DEMOCRATS SCARY SO VOTE FOR ME!" then I'm not interested. Republican scare-mongering about Democrats is just as much of a turnoff as when gun control advocates say something completely retarded and follow it up with "...and it's for the children!"
