The article excerpted below came to us via GOPUSA. It is a re-post by them of an article by Bryan Fischer written for American Family Association One News Now. The entire article is a worthy statement serving as a warning to a Republican establishment which seems intent on merely being a little slower boat to Constitutional and cultural oblivion.
The article is written with reference to summations of generic polling data about attitudes, not specifically party registration or no -party voting registration.
What ruling class Republicans fail to understand about independents
Campaign consultants make bank on advising candidates how to win the independent voting bloc – those who are perceived to be the 20 percent of the electorate in the middle of the spectrum between left and right.
The theory is that the Republican candidate has the 40 percent of the electorate to the right of center locked up, and the Democratic candidate has the 40 percent of the electorate to the left of center locked up, and the issue will be decided by those in the mushy middle.
There is one fundamental, lethal flaw for the Republican Party in this template. And that is that NOT ALL INDEPENDENTS ARE IN THE CENTER. Increasing numbers of conservatives have left the GOP, not because it is too conservative, but because it is not conservative enough.
The image of the Republican establishment is one of servitude to crony-capitalist interests epitomized by “too big to fail” financial policies; amnesty and benefits for illegal immigrants feeding their desire for low cost labor; one green boondoggle after another; Common Core education standards; adopting leftest narratives about “shutting down government”; and just rolling over in the face of Democrat resistance. For conservatives the deteriorating image of the Republican Party is further aggravated by distrust of the current Republican congressional leadership that they will do what they promise.
Can the Republican Party be salvaged or will it go the way of the Whigs? That is up to the Republican leadership. The rank and file vote with their feet (or by putting their feet up).
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As a life long Republican, I can attest to what Roger is saying. The Republican ‘leaders’ are so immersed in the DC “good old boy ” political stew that I trust none of them to be truth to the oath they took. I am educated, female and a conservative. If the conservative message of accountability, fiscal common sense , a reduced role for government was adequately espoused….and followed up on….the Party would not have the biennial vapors about getting ‘more people’ into the Party. A pox on their house.