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Graham, DeMint differ on strategies for GOP to regain power
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by politisite | October 26, 2009 at 12:46 pm
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South Carolina Senators have differing View points on how the Republican party should more forward. Senator Graham wants to expand the party to moderates, while Senator DeMint wants to focus on the Conservative base. A recent poll points out that seventy-three percent of conservatives think the Republican party is out of step with their values. Additionally the Gallup organization reports that those who identify themselves as conservatives have grown since the Presidential election in 2008.
Graham, a Seneca Republican elected to his second term last year, says the party must stop alienating young people and Hispanics and start promoting pragmatic, “center-right solutions” to the country's most pressing problems. “I'm trying to make sure that conservatism doesn't get hijacked by political fringes,” Graham told McClatchy. “I don't want to be in a party that's consistently losing market share. Our problem is we're going to have to broaden the base of our party.”
DeMint, a Greenville Republican seeking to win a second term next year, believes that young voters and ethnic Americans will flock to GOP candidates if they push plain conservative principles and offer a stark contrast to Democrats. “When someone provides a clear alternative to continued government growth and spending, people respond to that, even in different states like Pennsylvania or Florida or Ohio,” he said. “As long as the Republican Party doesn't stand for anything, it doesn't matter whether we have 50 or 55 or 60 votes in the Senate.”
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at 12:58 on October 26th, 2009
I suppose that if De Mint and Graham met somewhere in the middle, they could move forward.
I doubt that the far right would have a lot of appeal by the voters.
The far right has to bid for the votes of independents and must somehow accommodate them if they want to move ahead.
at 16:45 on October 26th, 2009
I agree with your assessment.
at 13:24 on October 26th, 2009
Keep on going in that direction Senator De Mint. The number of people that identify themselves as Republicans is at an all time low. I can't understand why.
at 16:38 on October 26th, 2009
That is not true. Self identifiers were at the lowest following the Nixon Resignation. Sen Demint is a Conservative and those who identify themselves as conservatives is at 40% beating Moderates and liberals.
at 19:03 on October 26th, 2009
Senator DeMint is a registered REPUBLICAN.
at 14:59 on October 27th, 2009
nanute: Yeah! And I bet you're a registered Democrat!
at 17:31 on October 26th, 2009
nanute: I second politisite! According to recent Gallup polls, there are more people identifying themselves as conservatives than there are those that consider themselves to be liberals and moderates. And those conservatives know where you live! HA!
at 19:48 on October 26th, 2009
Rory you made me choke on my beer with that last sentence. I'm still laughing. You should hear me all the way from Alberta.
at 14:54 on October 27th, 2009
ACP: Sorry! I didn't mean for you to choke on your beer! Just remember this: Democrats good! Republicans bad! LOL! Now I'm choking on my beer!
at 00:55 on October 27th, 2009
In the famous last words of Commander Codpiece: "Bring Em' On." If all those conservatives aren't Republicans, who have they been voting for?
at 14:50 on October 27th, 2009
nanute: All the conservatives voted for Obama! There's a vast ring wing conspiracy out there and it will stop at nothing to impose it's diabolical/anti-progressive views on all freedom-loving/peace-loving progressives. That's why members of the vast right wing conspiracy voted for Obama! In other words the conspiracy's reasoning was that if Obama got elected, the country would descend into anarchy. And as we all know, conservatives are gun-toting rubes and inclined to violence due to their Christian beliefs and religious fanaticism. Indeed all Republicans--especially conservative Republicans--are no different from the Muslim terrorists. It's been proven time and time again hasn't it?
at 15:36 on October 27th, 2009
Rory,
Your comments are getting to the point were they are tautological.
at 17:39 on October 26th, 2009
nanute: Democrats good! Republicans bad! LOL!
at 13:48 on October 26th, 2009
I am not a social conservative, but I am a nationalist and I want our sovereignty safeguarded. Graham never leaves me feeling good. He is a choir boy, if not worse. He never rocks the boat and touts every Chamber of Commerce solution to every problem, as in immigration reform.
It is not really about the moderates vs the conservatives. It is about the people who want to hold the government accountable and are angry as hell that we don't get that versus the elites.
at 16:40 on October 26th, 2009
both parties have failed in this regard.
at 14:02 on October 26th, 2009
Not being a Republican, i'm not cognizant of their internal debatess, except from the sidelines.
I am able to count. Pretty handy too, because i can add up on less than one finger, the number of times they have won the presidency with a "moderate" candidate, in the last 50 years.
at 16:43 on October 26th, 2009
Moderates do poorly in presidential elections for Republicans. In the last lost elections it was Bob Dole in 1996 and John McCain in 2008. Gerald Ford lost reelection (also a moderate) George HW Bush won election as a moderate.... he may be the President you counted
at 18:33 on October 26th, 2009
Well, he was half-moderate......notice i said "on less than one finger".