What does the Republican Party need to do to wrest control
of the fate of Connecticut from dominant Democrats who outnumber Republicans in
the state by a two to one margin? Pollsters tell us that unaffiliateds slightly
outnumber Democrats. Will a change
in the party chairmanship do it?
Yogi Berra told us the future ain’t what it used to be. Given
the state of the state, guided towards the abyss for the last three decades by
a party listing increasingly to the left, why is it so difficult for Republicans
to convince a majority of voters that continuing to vote Democrat will doom all
of us? And no, changing the chairman won’t do the job. The GOP has tossed its chairman
every time Democrats have defeated Republicans. One thinks of Aztec priests
leading virgins to the fire to placate bloodthirsty gods.
You need three things to win elections, the three “M’s” –
money, message and manpower. The Republican message has been very narrowly
tailored, nearly all of it towards economic issues. Traditional Republicans
assiduously avoid debate on so called “social issues,” and this abandonment of
half the battlefield delivers victory to Democrats – all the time. Republicans
truly think they can win on economic issues alone. The last state election
should have disproved that thesis. Democrats know they can win on “social
issues” alone; so far, they’ve been right. The economy, for Democrats, is a
moral not an economic theater of political action.
In both law and politics, silence signifies assent. If
Republicans are silent on the matter of the butchery of late-term babies, to
take one among many “social issues,” why shouldn’t that portion of the public –
Republican, Democrat or unaffiliated – that believes some abortion procedures
should be regulated not vote for U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, the senator from Planned Parenthood? The
narrow Republican message must be broadened to touch voters wounded by
leftist social policies, such as the poor suffering in cities controlled by political landlord Democrats for the last half century. Are we assuming that all women, even the substantial
number who have had babies, would be unwilling to challenge the unscientific
notion that a third term fetus resembles more closely a diseased liver that
ought to be aborted than the senator from Planned Parenthood, who will brook no abortion
regulations, however useful?
And the money?
Large campaign donors in Connecticut, once considered
reliably Republican have for decades been splitting their wallets pretty much
evenly between the two parties. It’s a safe bet that
massive home-grown Connecticut companies such as Aetna and UTC have sent boatloads
of campaign contributions to the leftists in the Democrat Party responsible for
nudging them out of state. Do the CFO’s
of such companies ever ask their CEO’s “What are we purchasing?”
They are purchasing protection, special exemptions and
political affection from the party in power – in Connecticut, progressives who
captured during the last election about half the seats in the Democrat
legislative caucus.
Al Capone’s troops used to wander among small businesses in
Chicago selling protection to merchants; i.e. insurance policies that would "protect" the merchants from mayhem caused by the protectors. Maybe Yogi was
wrong. Sometimes the future is what it used to be, but the cast
of characters is different.
The comparison is not entirely hyperbolic. Connecticut
government is big into gambling – think casinos. Massachusetts is into marijuana sales. Crony capitalism
is a shakedown racket. Attorney General of Connecticut William Tong wants to
put out of business Planned Parenthood’s competitors in the state, small
mom-and-pop women health centers, because the centers do not perform abortions and
are guided by traditional moral precepts. ICE, not illegal migrants, has
effectively been deported from the state through a nullification process that
has turned Connecticut into a sanctuary laboratory. The state continues to
finance failing public schools in inner cities, all the while under-financing
successful charter schools. There is no effective Republican presence in any of
the state’s larger cities.
And manpower?
No one, least of all narrative writers in the state’s media,
wants to leap aboard a sinking ship. Winning is not everything, but losing all
the time may be the beginning of the end. There will be no phoenix arising from
the ashes of the state’s Republican Party, only an unchallenged Democrat Party hegemony. And, as the state comes more and more to resemble unchallenged Democrat power centers in three of Connecticut larger cities, neither will there be a phoenix arising
from the destruction of Connecticut.
Comments
1. BLEXIT 2016 African American support for conservatives around 6 1/2 percent - Now about 35
2. LEXIT 2016 Latino support for conservatives arouind 35 percent - Now about 50
3. JEXIT 2016 Jewish suport for conservatives around 1:11 - Now 1:6
4. Despite Media rhetoric Traditional American values will neve accept Socialism. And don't fooled into believing younger millenials and Z generation are automatic progressives. That is not my experience across the country.
5. Decent Americans will not accept 3rd Trimester Abortions. This is magnified in the Black and Latino family construct. The move unplanned will drive this.
6. Its the economy stupid. Malcolm McGough