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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: KonKilo who wrote (113417)6/14/2009 3:01:07 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (2) of 542085
 
When we look back, a certain set of conservative strategies were very effective from 1980-2004, winning most presidential elections and recapturing Congress, much of it by simply pounding the Dems into the ground on every issue.

But like all political movements based on a zealous ideology, it lost its way so that its final six years in power were achieved by razor-thin margins and second-rate leaders compared to the movement's founders in the Reagan era.

In practice, that movement lost its bearings and control after the 2004 vote. Bush's domestic agenda disappeared into nothingness and the economy literally fell in on his head. The 2006 and 2008 votes showed increasing disgust with the politics from earlier days, not renewed commitment or a permanent governing majority.

Apart from a few books from Republican strategists urging change, most of the conservative movement has not come to terms with the end of their successful reign. So there only answer about what to do now is just crank more of the same that worked before.

But the answer won't be right because most of the questions have changed. Until we have something like the UK's Conservative Party with its current program and leadership, it will be a lot of sound and fury going nowhere.
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