The dust has settled from the seismic shift from liberal progressives to cultural conservatism. The message Democrats received was that America went too far left and alienated the heartland.
However, when a team is blown out, such as the Democrats were this midterm election, it’s time to go back and evaluate what we did right and what is needed to prevent the Republicans from winning the ultimate prize, the presidency.
President Obama has miffed many of his supporters who believed in his message of hope. We did not elect him to be the great conciliator. I do not understand his strategy of tea settings and olive branches, while his enemies bring bats and axes for a meeting.
In his effort to please his enemies and independents, he has alienated his base, which are minorities, labor, and defenders of civil rights: his base. He’ll need us in the reelection.
His “Team of Rivals”’ strategy has been an overwhelmingly disaster and that is one reason there was a break from him to the republicans. We do not want him to be a conciliatory president. We want some fight in him and to make a stand for the people who got him there.
Underestimating the Heartland
The Madison Avenue liberals and college educated professors kill elections with their intellectual snootiness.
Their strategy of portraying southerners as a bunch of inbreeds that are far removed from the sophistication of the more refined Bostonians and New Yorkers, this elitism did not work with Reagan, it did not work with Bush, and I feel they are underestimating Sarah Palin.
The heartland may not know the intricacies of the Geneva Convention, but they know that there are no jobs in their town, and the few jobs that are available are given to immigrants, and their misguided anger is directed at liberal policies that come from Washington.
Many are homeowners whose land has been passed on for generations and feel government is far reaching with taxes. They are gun owners that don’t want environmentalist telling them they don’t want them to live off the land or use their boats.
They do not want government intrusion, and the Democrats fail to realize, to win the heartland, you must be one of them. You have to win their trust; candidates can win in the south by dinner table conversations. Quote scriptures, from the bible, be their equal rather than some arrogant liberal who tells them how bad the republicans are.
Harry Truman once said “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think its hell.”
The Money Train
James Madison foretold in a must read for everyone “Federalist Papers 10” who loves freedom.
The return to the “Golden age of Capitalism” is in full swing, we saw the war to come with enormous amount of money to oust Democratic stalwarts such as Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer.
According to James Madison, “controlling its effects,” creates opportunity for Democrats to counteract against this assault on Democracy. Harry Truman countered an utter rout by using “The Whistle Stop Tour” Democrats should spend less time in Washington and go to your districts and listen to their constituents. Have lunch with your town, go fishing with them, win the hearts and minds and show you care and we can beat back greed.
