Conservatives,  GOP,  Polling

A Good Time to Be a Conservative in the Republican Party

Gallup Poll October 26, 2009

Yes!

The GOP over the remaining three years of the Obama Presidency will be unapologetically conservative.

And next week, in real balloting, conservative Republicans are likely to win in Virginia, a state Obama carried. Meanwhile, a liberal Republican anointed by the GOP establishment for the special congressional election in Upstate New York will probably run third, behind the conservative Republican running on the Conservative Party line, who may in fact win.

The lesson activists around the country will take from this is that a vigorous, even if somewhat irritated, conservative/populist message seems to be more effective in revitalizing the Republican Party than an attempt to accommodate the wishes of liberal media elites.

So the GOP is likely, for the foreseeable future, to be of a conservative mind and in a populist mood. In American politics, there are worse things to be.

Isn’t the populist/conservative mindset how Ronald Reagan brought America back from the disaster of the Jimmy Carter Presidency?

Next week’s elections will start the narrative for 2010 and a challenge to Obama in 2012.


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One Comment

  • Jay

    Republicans can win in 2010 and 2012 if they finally put true conservatives in the running people like McCain don’t win elections yet I fear without any solid leadership yet the conservatives still haven’t figured it out. Madison Web Design