The Conservative Dilemma

The failure of the Republican Party to be able to win national elections presents a real dilemma for conservatives. Where are the allies at? All around, you just have to know where to look.

If you will carefully look at the tables in each of the Target States, you will see that Republicans are in a world of hurt. In order to elect a President, the Republican party needs to carry the likes of Iowa and New Hampshire or Minnesota. Nevada and New Mexico are history and Colorado is headed there. I regret to say this, but there simply are not enough electoral votes to be had by Republicans any more. Now why is this? The demographics of the electorate is changing and not in the Republicans' favor. The influx of immigrants from Mexico into states like Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado is part of the problem. While illegal immigrants supposedly cannot vote, their children are automatically U.S. citizens who can vote once they are old enough. The illegal immigrant problem is no new phenomenon. It has been with us long enough that many of those children are now adults. They do not vote Republican.

The so-called flower children and the Viet Nam war protesters are now in their fifties. Ordinarily people over fifty vote Republican. That is not the case any more. It has moved up to over sixty. Yes, people are living longer but even so the solid Republican voters are slowly dying off. The minorities have always voted Democrat and show every sign of continuing to do so. They always have larger families than the majority and thus the percentage of the electorate that is in a minority group has steadily been climbing. It is just a matter of time until the minorities are no longer a minority but are the majority. None of this is good for the Republican Party. It already means that America is no longer a center-right country. The trend to the left of its electorate means that America is at best a centrist country.

That creates a real dilemma for us conservatives. We have been primarily forced into the Republican Party because the Democrat Party has been becoming more liberal with every passing election. Once Barry Goldwater broke the solid South, Republicans picked up the conservatives in the South who were no longer comfortable in the Democrat Party. That shift allowed the Republicans to win most of the Presidential elections since 1964. This is no longer the case. Because the Democrat Party is now a captive of the far left, there are a lot of unhappy Democrats. Those old Southern Democrats may have stayed registered in the Democrat Party, but they voted Republican and their children registered as Republicans.

This is not the case with those unhappy Democrats. To them, the Republican Party is the party of big business and extremist positions. However unhappy they might be with the leftist tilt of the Democratic Party, they are not willing to vote Republican in any serious numbers. The PUMA's were only 15 to 20% of the Hillary voters and there were not enough of them in the face of Republican desertions and the failure to persuade the independents. The conservatives need to peel off those unhappy Democrats in order to form a majority. This cannot be done by getting them to register Republican. The habit pattern of voting Democrat is just too strong. That is why I am promoting the PUMA Coalition as a viable way of getting those Democrats into a coalition with the conservatives.

Politics is the art of the possible and it does, indeed, make for strange bedfellows. Conservatives are now faced with a hard choice. They can stand firmly on all of their issues and go down with the Republican ship while watching the likes of Obama turn this country into a European socialist country. Or they can give a little to gain a lot and halt the slide into socialism. So who is it that we need to get into bed with? Originally my answer was the Clintons, but they have now been co-opted by team Obama. What we need now is conservative Democrats who can join with us.


I am not suggesting that conservatives from either party should abandon their beliefs, but rather that both groups should sort through those beliefs and find ten political goals on which they all agree completely, without surrendering their core beliefs in any way, shape or form. Work together to achieve those goals and, if after achieving all of them Obama is still in office, find five more and keep on going. I guarantee that by the time conservatives of both parties have worked through the list of goals on which they agree, Barack Obama will be a historical footnote and conservatives of both parties can have a healthy competition to see who runs the show next. Who knows, maybe they will decide to continue to work together even in Presidential election years.

The upside? Not only will we work together to take down the most dangerous person ever to win the presidency, we will have set a new standard and a new vision for working together even with those who share some but not all of our core beliefs. What conservatives from both parties have in common is that none of us want this country governed by Obama and his minions. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that stuff. So which is it going to be, fellow conservatives, down with the ship in the ObamaNation or form a coalition with conservative Democrats? The future of this country lies in your decision.