{"id":1559,"date":"2009-05-20T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/its-a-sure-bet-how-republicans-can-win-back-their-base\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T02:43:04","slug":"its-a-sure-bet-how-republicans-can-win-back-their-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/its-a-sure-bet-how-republicans-can-win-back-their-base\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Sure Bet How Republicans Can Win Back Their Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoBodyText>The Republican Party\u2019s self-induced mad dash for<br \/>\nirrelevancy is headlined by their reckless disregard for the Golden Rule of<br \/>\nwinning elections: first solidify the base. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Party of Lincoln\u2019s negligence commenced with George W.<br \/>\nBush\u2019s \u201ccompassionate conservatism\u201d. Conservatives preach tough love, but Bush<br \/>\ndistorted the \u201ccompassionate conservatism\u201d redundancy into an oxymoron by<br \/>\ndefining \u201ccompassion\u201d using the glossary of Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>With the aid of a Republican Congress, Bush benevolently<br \/>\nspent like a drunken Kennedy. His renunciation of conservative principals of conscientious<br \/>\nexpenditure failed miserably not only in courting the left hell-bent on<br \/>\ndestroying him, but disenfranchised conservatives of every ilk.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>But Bush and the Republicans\u2019 implosion was just in its<br \/>\ninfancy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Speaking of aliens, the President from the once<br \/>\nlaw-and-order party adopted a do-nothing course of action when it came to preventing<br \/>\nillegal aliens from journeying across the <st1:City><st1:place>Rio Grande<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>.<br \/>\n<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span>If only crossing a <st1:City><st1:place>Manhattan<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nintersection could be done with such ease. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>A new low point was achieved in the Terri Shiavo circus.<br \/>\nOnce a \u201cfamily values\u201d party, religious insurgents demanded that the<br \/>\nexcruciating life and death decision involving the brain-damaged comatose women<br \/>\nshould be decided not by her next-of-kin, but by a bunch of empty suits inside<br \/>\nthe Beltway. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>While the Reaganites allowed Christian jihads to seize<br \/>\noccupancy of the conservative movement, the rest of the party distanced<br \/>\nthemselves by nominating John McCain for President, the most center-left<br \/>\nentrant in modern Republican history.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Lagging miserably in the polls, McCain skyrocketed once he<br \/>\nthrew a bone to traditional conservatives and chose Sarah Palin as his running<br \/>\nmate. While her gaffes made her easy fodder for the left-leaning \u201cif you can\u2019t<br \/>\nbeat them, destroy them\u201d media, it was centrist McCain who permitted Barack<br \/>\nObama to achieve the impossible.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Liberal Barack Obama successfully courted abandoned Reagan<br \/>\nconservatives by convincing them that he would cut taxes for middle-class Americans<br \/>\nmore than McCain would. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>But Barney Frank has pulled the granddaddy of them all in<br \/>\ndismembering the disremembered conservative movement. Somehow, someway, the<br \/>\nunapologetic left-winger has positioned himself to the right of most<br \/>\nRepublicans on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">gambling<\/a> civil liberties.\n<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Personal responsibility and creating new streams of tax<br \/>\nrevenue was once etched-in-stone bare essentials of the Republican Party and<br \/>\nremains basic principles in the non-religious nutter dieing wing of<br \/>\nconservatism. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Fully legalizing the legitimate pastime of online gambling,<br \/>\nwhile relishing in the cash flow that would funnel into the economy, should be embraced<br \/>\nby the Republicans. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Yet so-called Republicans such as John Kyl and Bill Frist<br \/>\nhave declared mutiny on traditional conservatism and hijacked it to the point<br \/>\nwhere estranged Reaganites acknowledge that Barney Frank represents their<br \/>\nconstituency much more than the derelict traitors who deceitfully call<br \/>\nthemselves Republicans. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Republicans are oblivious to how they alienated their base<br \/>\nwith spendorama \u201ccompassion\u201d, a see-no-evil approach to illegal immigration,<br \/>\nand allowing a left-wing presidential candidate to abduct their lower-taxes<br \/>\nmantra. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>By voting for full legalization of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=13\">online gambling<\/a>,<br \/>\nthey have an opportunity to return to their pro-business, anti-government<br \/>\nintrusion roots. But consistent with their political death wish recent history,<br \/>\nRepublicans have allowed a progressive Congressman from <st1:State><st1:place>Massachusetts<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><br \/>\nto shanghai and pirate what should be a conservative calling card. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Ronald Reagan once said that that he didn\u2019t leave the<br \/>\nDemocratic Party; the Democratic Party left him. Now posthumously, the<br \/>\nRepublican Party has done the same. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Barney Frank is now the knight in shining armor to<br \/>\ndyed-in-the-wool conservatives. Republican enablers have assured this<br \/>\nArmageddon lasts well beyond the next mid-terms. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Supporting online gambling could be the Republicans last<br \/>\nchance to court back conservatives. Here\u2019s <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.betonsports360.com\/\">betting<\/a> they instead choose to<br \/>\nsubvert themselves further into irrelevancy.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'><br \/>\n<\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The author Joe Duffy is CEO of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal'><span style='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a>,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>the most respected sports betting site on American sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party\u2019s self-induced mad dash for irrelevancy is headlined by their reckless disregard for the Golden Rule of winning elections: first solidify the base. The Party of Lincoln\u2019s negligence commenced with George W. Bush\u2019s \u201ccompassionate conservatism\u201d. Conservatives preach tough love, but Bush distorted the \u201ccompassionate conservatism\u201d redundancy into an oxymoron by defining \u201ccompassion\u201d using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/its-a-sure-bet-how-republicans-can-win-back-their-base\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a Sure Bet How Republicans Can Win Back Their Base<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}