|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
|
|
|
|
|
|
Monday, June 02, 2003 :::
My brother's comments on why social conservatives might withhold support from a less-conservative Republican are not wrong, but are incomplete. Some social conservatives will think the way he is thinking -- in terms of providing an incentive not to take them for granted -- but there's an other motive which is often forgotten by geeks like us.
Most people's lives -- even most political activists' lives -- are not 100% driven by politics. A lot of those conservatives have families, jobs, and/or stamp collections which also attract their interest. Most will probably help Bush some, but if he's less attractive to them than Gary Bauer would be, they'll put less effort into his campaign than they would into Bauer's, not so much out of spite as because his re-election effort is less valuable to them. As a result, when a Bush campaign has to compete for their time against their kids, their jobs, or their stamp collections, it simply doesn't compete as well as a Bauer campaign would.
::: posted by Steven at 1:22 PM
|
|
|
|
