68% Of Republicans See Their Party As Leaderless Right Now

• March 9, 2009

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republican voters say their party has no clear leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Another 17% are undecided.
Just five percent (5%) view either John McCain, the GOP’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential candidate, or new party chairman Michael Steele as the party’s leader.
Two percent (2%) see conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh in that role, and one percent (1%) name McCain’s running mate, Alaska Govenror Sarah Palin. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner are each seen as GOP leader by less than one-half of one percent.
Democrats have no question who’s in charge. Two-thirds of the party’s voters (66%) see President Barack Obama as their leader. Nobody else reaches even the five percent (5%) level.

The Republican party is in shambles, and the big reason is that Republicans aren’t giving people anything to vote for. In 2006 we were told to vote against Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid taking over Congress. It didn’t work. In 2008 we were told to vote against Barack Obama taking over (and socializing) the nation. That didn’t work either.
If Republicans want to win, they need a campaign strategy that’s better than “Vote for us because we’re not as bad as they are.”
When Republicans start offering an agenda that’s distinctly different from what Democrats are offering, and not just a somewhat less aggressive version of their liberal agenda, and when they can be trusted to actually advance that agenda they’ll find their way out of the wilderness.

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http://Array Bill

Don’t forget gutless and spineless. New leadership desperately needed.
Rezistik

Why not hand the reigns over to the one actual conservative in the party, ron paul?

Because he doesn’t support military empires?
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Hunter S. Thompson is dead,

Because of the bats in his belfry? Because he makes Ross Perot seem level headed? Because he’s a parody of a crank?
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Indeed it is.

The Obamanation is recycling from previous administrations with entirely predictable results.

Time for the Republicans to have a prolonged deabte as to the direction the party needs to follow. Once we know that, the leader who championed that set of positions should be allowed to run with it.
dragon poker

Without a message that resonates with more than just the base(that being attack,attack,attack)there is no hope but to wait for the Dems to self destruct. This could take a long time given the current changes in demographics and firm hold the Dems have(not to mention the self destructive nature of the party right now). Having an agenda to actually put forward gives the GOP something to do besides attack. Attack without balancing the attack with good smart alternatives will never ever work. In fact, minus the smart alternatives, the attack becomes easily counterproductive.
A good illustration of this is the very quick analysis I have compiled below. I took the last five pages of Moderator posts here at SAB. I broke them down into 7 catagories:

Attack Obama/admin directly: 28

Attack Dem/lib policies or ideas: 12

Praise GOP/conservative ideas: 3

Attack GOP: 2

Neutral posts: 14

Humor intended: 5

Local stories and topics: 13

I think the first catagory(attack Obama/admin directly: 28) speaks volumes, especially when taken with its counterpart(praise GOP/con ideas: 3). This clearly shows that the balance of the message is so out of whack that it has no chance of success. This is the truth of demographics in the 21st Century. The GOP must have a clear message to balance the attack, and until they do, the attack is doing far more harm to the party(and ultimately conservative ideas)than good. The attack needs to be more focused and less lowbrow as well. The use of an aggressive and rightous attack is invaluable when used correctly. When you attack anything and eveything, often in bad taste or with an anti-intellectual approach, offering nothing of substance to balance the attack, and then call that honest debate, you lose credibility. Your rightous attack becomes meaningless, or worse, is disregarded entirely. You becomes the boy who cried wolf. Even children understand this stuff. Why doesnt the GOP/conservatives?
I will tell you why.
Within the GOP/conservative base,intellegent pragmatic ideas and common sense presentations of ideas have been replaced with emotionalism and self indulgence.

The list above shows alot of emotionalism/self indulgence going on around here.
Emotion has a low I.Q.

If a new leader emerges from the muck the GOP had become, he will need to be able to rise above the emotionalism and self-indulgence that is so pervasive now. He will need to teach the base about incrimentalism, and how to shut up when shuttin up needs to be done. He will have to lead the base from the lowbrow tendencies they have evolved listening to AM rasio for the last 25 years, and they will need to learn to cooperate and build a coalition of voters.
Or just keep self destructing and waiting for the Dems to implode. Lets say 20 to 40 years. Either way, by then alot of us will be gone or irrellevant, and a new breed will be in charge anyway.
jimmypop

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republican voters say their party has no clear leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Another 17% are undecided.

this is the BEST thing that could have happened to this party. they need to get rid of all the old liberals and bring in young conservatives.

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