From:  Dr. Jimmie R. Applegate
To:       SOAR Readers

Welcome to a new posting format for SOAR!
This is the first posting of a published article with a brief introduction intended to stimulate your thinking and maybe even engender a response.
The following article explores the question “Does the GOP Know How to Win?  I will answer the question this way.  Yes, of course with one caveat.   The GPO must advocate, takeand maintain a strong constitutional conservative position. For a model of success look at the landslide in 1994 based on Gingrich’s Contract with America.  What was once an unbeatable GOP conservative position eroded over time because of a failure to maintain a strong constitutional conservative position.Currently on the international level Spain has followed Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Italy in replacing socialism with a right of center conservative government. And in November, 2012, conservatives in the United States will have an opportunity to retake the government from the current liberal, progressive socialist administration of President Barack Obama.  To do so, Republicans must broaden their base of support to include the dissatisfied and disaffected among the Independent, Democratic, Republican, Tea Party and Libertarian voters.  And they must speak to the concerns voiced by the 99%.
Is all of this difficult to do?  Absolutely, but it is not impossible.  And it can and must be done.

Articles from the print edition of
Middle American News
Middle American News November 2011
www.Manews.org


Does the GOP Know How to Win?
The Republicans have no idea what they are in for when the 2012 election comes around. Conservative commentators are already overconfident, crowing that the economic doldrums and President Barack Obama's bad policy choices, which are driving down his approval ratings, almost ensure a Republican victory in November 2012. But what Republicans and their conservative cheerleaders don't realize is that they are fighting an especially determined foe, namely the entire American left-wing movement, which includes every "social justice" activist and organization from the Communist Party (which has already endorsed Obama's reelection) to the Democratic National Committee. That movement, which is regarded benignly by the nation's corporate news media, is a determined opponent extremely skilled in influencing public opinion -- something that conservatives with their weak rhetorical skills fail consistently to do. The American left doesn't intend to roll over and die just because of a few negative public opinion polls. That's what the anti-Wall Street demonstrations spreading across the country are all about. It is a massive, coordinated campaign to lift the blame for America's economic woes off of Obama's shoulders and lay it squarely on the backs of American business, to which the left's massive propaganda machine will link the entire Republican Party and its 2012 candidates. Part of that anti-Wall Street strategy is to regain the support of the white working class that is normally conservative in outlook, but which is turned off by the Republicans' suicidal support for job-killing free trade policies and winking at the excesses of transnational corporations. If they want to win, Republicans need to recalibrate their electoral strategy to counter the left's gameplan and boost support from that neglected white working class constituency with an economic message tailored to its needs, not the needs of transnational corporations.

God bless the U.S.A