[EL] my take on the 2012 elections and forward

[Salvador Peralta]

Interesting.  One wonders how Mr Vander Plaats reconciles his view of the Presidential election with the results of the Senate races in Indiana, North Dakota, Montana, and Missouri.  

It's hard to imagine the Republicans fielding candidates who are significantly more socially or fiscally conservative than Akin, Mourdock, Berg, and Denny Rehberg, yet all of them were beaten in states that were carried easily by Mr Romney.



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 From: Craig Holman <holman at aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:49 AM
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Hi Frank: 

Great op-ed you published.

You may find the opposite opinion published in today's Washington Post of interest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-republicans-fight-back-after-romney-loss/2012/11/19/4d04a050-3270-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html?hpid=z2

Conservative Republicans fight back after Romney loss
By Paul Kane and Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: November 19
Evangelical leaders and conservative activists have a simple message for establishment Republicans about Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid: We told you so.
After nearly two weeks of listening to GOP officials pledge to assert greater control over the party and its most strident voices in the wake of Romney’s loss, grass-roots activists have begun to fight back, saying that they are not to blame for the party’s losses in November.
“The moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012. And they got crushed in both elections. Now they tell us we have to keep moderating.  If we do that, will we win?” said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader. 

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FYI - attached is my op ed from today's Star-Ledger entitled "Trends
Aren't Pointing GOP's Way," which suggests that unless the Republicans
do a major make over, they will go the way of the dinosaurs by 2020, 
FRANK Prof. Frank Askin
Distinguished Professor of Law       and Director
Constitutional Litigation Clinic
Rutgers Law School/Newark
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