Why do conservatives think the vast majority of America support their ideas?

Question

I hear this all the time on here... and granted, Bush and Republicans won the election and congress... but the NATIONAL presidential election was 51 percent to 48 percent... that's far from a "vast majority" that you keep talking about... that's a VERY slim majoirty... against KERRY, a candidate most of us would probably agree is weak...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections/2004/

when I think vast majority... I think 75 percent...

stockpicker2010... I'm from the south and no big city... but I guess people in the big cities aren't real Americans?

That's really rude and naive... you sound like you hate 48 percent of America... maybe you should move?

Iwannajess♥: IT'S ON HERE ALL THE TIME... JUST LOOK UP LIKE 2 COMMENTS?

sorry you don't know what the people in your own party think?

netjir and Chris S:... that's what I was thinking too... and I'm not saying that only conservatives say crazy stuff... but I was just wondering if they had a basis for this particular item...

Answer 1

Because they are delusional. Like stockpicker who doesn't even realize that the bridge to nowhere was proposed by a Republican from Alaska and passed by a Republican congress.
Democrats come from large population port cities on the coasts. This is where the real threats of terrorism exist. This is also where it is important to have a thriving economy. Threats of layoffs, outsourcing, poor wages, and pension and social security ripoffs are important in these blue areas. Red states are low population rural areas where people fear things like gay marriage and flag burning.

Answer 2

What part of the west coast are you from anyway? What big city? New York? Phildelphia?
Come on out to the real America- the Heartland. You will find that 75% of people agree with conservative values, though they may not completely agree with everything about the current administration.
51% to 48% is a big deal on a National scale. We are talking about millions and millions of votes. The Republicans will not only keep their majority in both houses of Congress this year, they will actually increase their majority and with that, the people of the Heartland will speak loudly and clearly:
Do something about illegal immigration.
Do something about Social Security.
Do something about taxes.
Continue keeping us safe by collecting telephone and banking records.
Continue keeping us better off by passing the line-item veto so that Democrats cannot push through another $100M bridge to nowhere.
Conservatives will rule the roost for the next two years and well beyond that, my friend. If you don't like it, apply for a visa to Canada. You won't get one, but apply anyway. I want you to.
And take Alec Baldwin and Al Franken and Jerry Springer with you to the application office! I would like nothing more than the Canadians getting a good laugh for a day!

Answer 3

You may remember the Terri Schiavo debacle 18 months ago. Those who supported the Federal govt's interference in that matter were about 18% of the American people. They were people like stockpicker2010, the talk radio crowd, and they insisted that the 82% of us who didn't want to touch the problem with a ten-foot pole were a small minority. It's part of their propaganda.

Liberal and conservative are just labels these days. In practice Bush is the most liberal President this nation has ever seen---big government, crippling debt, massive illegal immigration (he's just doing his "reform" stuff for show because it is an election year) nation-building, censorship, cronyism, and patronage. But the GOP knows how to rally its base and campaign on hot-button nonissues like gay marriage and flag burning while the Dems waffle and back down all the time.

I work two jobs, one of them with tourists in the big East Coast City I live in. A lot of those tourists are from the Heartland and they are damn sick and tired of the way things are being run these days. One middle-aged couple I talked to had a son in the Marines about to go overseas to Iraq. The father said "I'm proud of him, but I wish we would just shut our borders off and mind our own business." That was his way of saying he was tired of the war. Unfortunately, instead of seizing on this kind of opportunity the Democrats have let it go unclaimed.

People like stockpicker2010 are Kool-Aid drinkers. She won't change. In 1975 when the last helicopter left the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon she was probably watching it on TV yelling "McGovern lost, libs!". But there are tens of millions of Red Staters who are not. Whether the Democrats make a play for their hearts and minds is another matter.

Answer 4

I wouldn't say a vast majority but a majority none the less. I think most folks are in the middle rather that to the right or left. Some have conservative views sprinkled with liberals ideas and others have liberal views with a dash of conservative ideas. I'm a republican, a fiscal conservative, and pro-choice. Boy, that probably shocked some people.

Answer 5

Bush's actual popularity is now down to something like 38% now. You keep hearing about what the 'majority' thinks by the people in power, these are the same people controlling the media, and it is the brainwashed little people that are unfortunately the most vocal. The other side needs a strong vocal leader but nobbody will step up!

Answer 6

Both sides have their freaks and fools. As for me, I try to give reasonable, thoughtful answers to reasonable, thoughtful questions. However, when the left-wing fools say something ridiculous or start bashing, I have no problem putting them in their place. I even do this with right-wing fools at times, partly to try to keep the debate constructive, and partly to not give the left more ammo. Hey, I admit it.

Stockpicker2010: As much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, the "bridge to nowhere" of which you speak was a Republican debacle. It's just one more way that the congressional appetite for pork overrules good fiscal sense, and why the President NEEDS a line-item veto of some sort.

Answer 7

I didn't like either candidate myself in 2004. I think alot of people don't care what is going on, some are just Democrats or Republicans because thats what they registered to vote for and don't really follow the ideals of the party.

Answer 8

Dear G; it is not all that different then the left say Bush stole the election when in fact he did not. It is rhetoric from the right to suggest we have a "vast" majority. They use the term to highten their importance and success; but sadly they still capitulate to the left in the Senate mostly....very disturbing.

"Vast Majority" = typical rhetoric

Answer 9

Go live in Canada if you want socialism, America wasn't founded on welfare for people who have the ability to work.

Answer 10

we don't think the vast majority of americans support us. the people in here who are saying that are probably talking about the vast majority we have in congress.

why are democrats such assholes?