Every election cycle, I hear the same thing:
IF YOU REPUBLICANS WANT TO HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING, YOU'D BETTER NOMINATE A MODERATE!
I hear it from the media.
I hear it from Liberals (who are CLEARLY just trying to help me...and Republicans...out...).
I hear it, even, from "moderate" Republicans.
And, I'm certain that the majority of Americans hear the same thing, repeated, ad nauseam.
But, as FAR too many things "media", FAR too many things "moderate" and nearly EVERYTHING Liberal, the notion that a Conservative cannot win the Presidency is, in a word:
BULLSHIT.
The greatest modern example? President Reagan, of course.
Now, while it CAN be reasonably argued that Reagan won in 1980 in reaction to President Carter who, by any reasonable standard, was an epic failure as a President, it does not explain how, in 1984, Reagan, who, by that time, had established his credentials as a true Conservative, won his bid for reelection.
So lopsided was Reagan's victory over Mondale (in 1984) that no other word could possibly apply other than "mandate".
By electoral vote:
1980 election:
Reagan: 489 electoral votes
Carter: 49 electoral votes
1984 election:
Reagan: 525 electoral votes
Mondale: 13 electoral votes
So, AFTER establishing himself as a Conservative, Reagan had a HIGHER electoral gain than his previous election win.
So.....AMERICAN VOTERS.....the record is absolutely clear: put a REAL Conservative against a Democrat, and the Conservative WILL win.
And the reverse, as seen by the last two elections, the opposite is true:
Obama vs McCain (who is a left-of-center moderate Republican):
Obama: 365 electoral votes
McCain: 173 electoral votes
Obama vs Romney (who is a right-of-center moderate Republican):
Obama: 201 electoral votes
Romney: 191 electoral votes
Even in the last two elections, the more Right-leaning the Republican candidate, the more electoral votes.
The bottom line is this:
The more Conservative the Presidential candidate, the more electoral votes garnered by the Republican Party. The more "moderate" and left-leaning the candidate, the fewer electoral votes for the Republican.
Why on Earth fair-minded voters listen to Liberals in the media, the Democrat Party and in the Republican Party is beyond my capacity to understand.
So, as the 2016 election season ramps up, I hope that you will keep these things in mind. And, I hope that you will dedicate yourselves to taking a stand:
- In favor of the Constitution
- In favor of Conservative principles
- In favor of American exceptionalism
- In favor of the family
- In favor of freedom
- In favor of Liberty
- In favor of our GOD-BESTOWED unalienable rights (worth reading:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/09/23/what-did-thomas-jefferson-mean-by-unalienable-rights/)
Because, if you are NOT in favor of these or are disinterested in defending these, then you WILL lose them.
America, folks, ISN'T just another country.
Rather, it is a shared vision of Liberty, which must be defended constantly from those, externally and internally, who seek to destroy that vision.
And, of all the forces allied against that vision, the most dangerous is The Democrat Party, who are Marxists, Statists, who seek to do to America what Communists did to the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, etc....
Is that REALLY the legacy you wish to leave to your children?
