Reagan was conservative but his message and manner were stll inclusive

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z — 5/20/2009 4:39:24 PM (archived)

That's the point made most recently by Olympia Snowe of Maine. Reagan didn't chase the moderate, pro-choice Republicans out of the party.

Reagan also had the good fortune (for the GOP) to lead Republicans to victory in 1980 and 1984 in a country that was much more solidly white and male-dominated. The demographics have changed considerably in the past 25 years, and will continue to evolve. If the election of 1980 had taken place with the demographic breakdown of 2008, the Reagan landslide over Carter would have in fact have been a dead heat. That fact should scare the hell out of the Republicans, and get them to think more seriously about reaching out beyond their base.

The GOP is really good at looking back - not so hot at looking forward.

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Another Republican moderate passes on 2012, joins Obama's State Dept. - z - 5/19/2009 2:53:19 PM
- Richard Quinn, author of the great McCain victory, tells us how to win? - TB - 5/19/2009 4:52:51 PM
  - Why not stay with Limbaugh? He didn't like McCain, either. Too liberal. - Bowser - 5/20/2009 4:24:00 AM
  - If you chase every moderate out the GOP, you definitely won't win (n/t) - z - 5/20/2009 2:44:34 AM
    - Look back to the elections the GOP did overwhelmingly win. - TB - 5/20/2009 3:52:32 AM
      - Reagan was conservative but his message and manner were stll inclusive - z - 5/20/2009 4:39:24 PM
      - Let's see... - dtb - 5/20/2009 4:26:57 AM
        
        I was thinking of recent decades - TB - 5/20/2009 5:48:37 AM
        
        Reagan, the fiscal conservative who practiced keynesian economics (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/20/2009 5:07:21 PM
        
        Long-term cycles - dtb - 5/20/2009 2:34:52 PM
- Obama's political strategy? - ER - 5/19/2009 3:30:04 PM
  - And it may just be to have a representative government, a concept regarded by the loonies as weird. (n/t) - Bowser - 5/20/2009 9:33:22 PM

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