Rockefeller Republicans

[Lincoln Republican]

When will Rockefeller Republicans begin to make a comeback?

Please discuss.

[Хahar 🤔]

They won't.

[Psychic Octopus]

Not in the same sense as implied. A new, more moderate GOP will emerge over time as the youth climbs the ranks of the party, but it ultimately won't be classified as the term "Rockefeller Republican". At the current moment, most Rockefeller Republicans are now Democrats.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

When they distinguish themselves from Democrats.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Hopefully never.

[Bo]

Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

LOL, yeah right.

Face it, Rockefeller Republicanism is dead.

[Alexander Hamilton]

You mean Rockefeller "Democrats* who hate crime and drugs"? Hopefully never.


*RINOs

[Bo]

Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

LOL, yeah right.

Face it, Rockefeller Republicanism is dead.

I said at the earliest. They could reappear much later, or not reappear at all (which I seriously doubt).

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

LOL, yeah right.

Face it, Rockefeller Republicanism is dead.

I said at the earliest. They could reappear much later, or not reappear at all (which I seriously doubt).

It's the latter. (You're usually wrong.)

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

[Mint]

For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

Well if the real conservatives and libertarians leave for a party that actually listens to them, it could happen.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

Well if the real conservatives and libertarians leave for a party that actually listens to them, it could happen.

Then the GOP would fall entirely into the hands of neocons like Don and we'd have this:

[Mechaman]

For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

Well if the real conservatives and libertarians leave for a party that actually listens to them, it could happen.

Then the GOP would fall entirely into the hands of neocons like Don and we'd have this:

Amen brotha.
I will say right now nothing would please me more than to see the Grand Ole Authoritarian Party finally die it's long overdue death.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Actually that map isn't quite accurate; this is the correct one.

[rebeltarian]

They're still out there making an impact, albeit in the other party.  A more relavant term for them nowadays should be Gravel Democrats:  Fiscally moderate, socially libertarian, white-collar suburbanites.  My boss is one, she campaigned for Obama, but is a registered independent and self-described "moderate republican".  She despises the Hannity/Limbaugh crowd, but she says Democrats "spend too much money".

Most Rockefeller Republicans were located in the northeast.  They're basically the counterpart to the populist dixiecrats of the South.  Neither party can ever carry both the south and the northeast, since both regions are so culturally polarized against each other. 

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

They're still out there making an impact, albeit in the other party.  A more relavant term for them nowadays should be Gravel Democrats:  Fiscally moderate, socially libertarian, white-collar suburbanites.  My boss is one, she campaigned for Obama, but is a registered independent and self-described "moderate republican".  She despises the Hannity/Limbaugh crowd, but she says Democrats "spend too much money".

Most Rockefeller Republicans were located in the northeast.  They're basically the counterpart to the populist dixiecrats of the South.  Neither party can ever carry both the south and the northeast, since both regions are so culturally polarized against each other. 

Gravel a Rockefeller Republican?

[Mechaman]

They're still out there making an impact, albeit in the other party.  A more relavant term for them nowadays should be Gravel Democrats:  Fiscally moderate, socially libertarian, white-collar suburbanites.  My boss is one, she campaigned for Obama, but is a registered independent and self-described "moderate republican".  She despises the Hannity/Limbaugh crowd, but she says Democrats "spend too much money".

Most Rockefeller Republicans were located in the northeast.  They're basically the counterpart to the populist dixiecrats of the South.  Neither party can ever carry both the south and the northeast, since both regions are so culturally polarized against each other. 

Gravel a Rockefeller Republican?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_drug_laws
How "socially libertarian" indeed.

[rebeltarian]

People love to interpret posts the way they want to on this board.  The times have changed, guys.  Most white collar suburbanites couldn't careless about gays, drugs, school prayer, etc.  Their main issue of concern is economics and inteligent governance.  While they don't align perfectly with the campaign platform of Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, they are the children of this voting demographic, and this is 2010, not 1964!  It's a matter of generational shift.  Children of RR's are much more tolerant to alternative lifestyles and perhaps Rockefeller himself would be more socially liberal if he were around today.

P.S. Gravel is a liberal-leaning libertarian on the nolan chart, right cozy next to Jim Jeffords.   

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

People love to interpret posts the way they want to on this board.  The times have changed, guys.  Most white collar suburbanites couldn't careless about gays, drugs, school prayer, etc.  Their main issue of concern is economics and inteligent governance.  While they don't align perfectly with the campaign platform of Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, they are the children of this voting demographic, and this is 2010, not 1964!  It's a matter of generational shift. 

P.S. Gravel is a liberal-leaning libertarian on the nolan chart, right cozy next to Jim Jeffords.   

Make sense, please.

[President Mitt]

A Rockefeller Republican is a creature made when you take out the few remaining good parts about Republicans, and replace them with the worst parts of Democrats.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

A Rockefeller Republican is a creature made when you take out the few remaining good parts about Republicans, and replace them with the worst parts of Democrats.

What good parts of the Republicans do Rockefeller Republicans have?

[Mechaman]

People love to interpret posts the way they want to on this board.  The times have changed, guys.  Most white collar suburbanites couldn't careless about gays, drugs, school prayer, etc.  Their main issue of concern is economics and inteligent governance.  While they don't align perfectly with the campaign platform of Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, they are the children of this voting demographic, and this is 2010, not 1964!  It's a matter of generational shift. 

P.S. Gravel is a liberal-leaning libertarian on the nolan chart, right cozy next to Jim Jeffords.   

Yet they still proudly wear his name.
My advice, don't call them Rockefeller Republicans.

[DS0816]

When will Rockefeller Republicans begin to make a comeback?

Please discuss.

I give it ten years. It's going to take a massive landslide of a defeat in 2012, and the Democrats winning again in 2016, and the GOP will say: Yeah, Election 2008 was a realignment election. We will need to make changes.