On November 5, a website called MassResistance posted their analysis of why Republicans in Massachusetts lost at the polls last week. The theory expressed is that the Republicans ran most of the campaigns in a way not to offend anyone.
The article points out:
"In April 2009 the Boston homosexual newspaper Bay Windows featured a front-page interview with newly elected Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Nassour. She told Bay Windows that the Party will no longer oppose same-sex "marriage", abortion, or other divisive "social issues.""
The article cites a quote from a past election:
"As columnist Jeff Jacoby once observed (regarding Mitt Romney's 1994 Senate race against Ted Kennedy), if people are given the choice of a watered-down liberal and a real liberal, they will choose the real thing every time. What he might have added is that when the Republican Party caves in to more and more liberal mush, its rank and file starts to lose their zeal and enthusiasm, and it affects campaigns."
I partially agree with the article, but I think there were exceptions to the watered-down profiles that were offered to the voters--the problem was that they were not at the top of the ballot, so people probably did not bother to split their vote to support them.
I don't know if Massachusetts Republicans will learn from their mistakes or not. Part of the problem is that many of the Massachusetts Republicans are not conservative and can't be expected to take conservative stands. I am not sure what it will take for that to change.
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