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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I don't think anyone can really say what conservatives want. There's just too many types of conservatives now to make a general statement as to their desires. Around the time of Reagan the GOP started melding social conservatives with fiscal conservatives and now we have so many voters who vote one issue it's impossible to really define the conservative movement. As you point out many conservatives seriously dislike Rush, other love him. Same with Palin. One thing they usually have in common is there's no way in hell they're voting for a Dem.
The same can be said for liberals to some degree. And the one thing they're not doing is vote GOP.
Which is why both parties do whatever they can to get independent voters. Which every way the Ind. votes swing so does the election, usually.
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Sure, and I think it leaves a lot of voters out in the cold while the old "lesser of two evils" decision pops up that a lot of us find ourselves having to make around elections. Whats average Joe Conservative to do? Vote Dem to show he doesn't support bone heads like Rush and Sarah? Everybody is just trying to get by in the world and just because you feel the GOP represents you better then the Dems doesn't mean you should have to get lumped in with this garbage.
Although I wish those that opposed stupid things like this would be a little more vocal about it...I sure as hell would be pissed off is somebody claiming to represent me was going around trying to pull this crap.
You know, you'd think with so many independent voters having such a huge impact on elections it might be a sign that we need more parties....then people could also pick and chose whats right for them instead of having to shoe horn into a group that sort of represents them.