What can Republicans do to be competitive in the Pacific Northwest again?

[Rockefeller GOP]

Same thing they can do to be competitive everywhere else: focus more on economic issues and less on social issues.

Because everyone agrees with the Republicans on economics, after all.

What is your solution for "our" party (which you rarely seem to genuinely identify with)?  Continue to appeal to evangelicals in Southern and Mountain West states, completely writing off moderates and independents in large coastal and Midwestern states that we need to be competitive in the EC?

[Rockefeller GOP]

What can they do to make WA & OR competitive again? I assume it will have to be after the gay rights issue has died down, which it should have by 2020. Will a moderation on climate change be necessary, due to the region's high number of environmentalists? How would the emerging Libertarian segment of the party play there in a national election?

What can Democrats do to make Alabama and Mississippi competitive again?

Same answer: they can't.

Both arrogant and ignorant of history to simply suggest "they can't."  Tons of states that looked like they'd never switch partisan allegiances (states much more loyal than OR or WA) have done 180s in the last 30 years alone.  But NOW we've reached a point where nothing will ever change from here on out??  LOL, okay.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Stop being the anti science, bible thumping , racist, neo confederate revanchist party would help.

Disregarding your misguided and elitist generalizations (I've noticed our non-American posters have a much more inflated view of what your average American Democrat is like than is reality), the types of candidates that the GOP runs in the Pacific Northwest generally don't fit your absurd description.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Here is what I say. Who cares? As a conservative I dont consider the people in SEA-TAC and Portland to be people I am interested in chasing or pandering to for votes. They are primarily atheists, socialists and people who reject American Exceptionalism and are Blame American Firsters. They wallow in multiculturalism and moral relativism and are increasingly anti-semitic with their support for the genocidal BDS movement.

It will be a wonderful day when white coastal liberal gentries, especially in CA, are outnumbered by hispanics who want their own candidates and not benevolent white liberals representing them.  Those whites whose primary concern is climate change even if it means banning energy jobs, destroying manufacturing and turning the state into a third world country with no upward mobility for anyone not employed in Silicon Valley or Hollywood.

Ugh.  This is why our party is sucking more and more everyday.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Here is what I say. Who cares? As a conservative I dont consider the people in SEA-TAC and Portland to be people I am interested in chasing or pandering to for votes. They are primarily atheists, socialists and people who reject American Exceptionalism and are Blame American Firsters. They wallow in multiculturalism and moral relativism and are increasingly anti-semitic with their support for the genocidal BDS movement.

It will be a wonderful day when white coastal liberal gentries, especially in CA, are outnumbered by hispanics who want their own candidates and not benevolent white liberals representing them.  Those whites whose primary concern is climate change even if it means banning energy jobs, destroying manufacturing and turning the state into a third world country with no upward mobility for anyone not employed in Silicon Valley or Hollywood.

Ugh.  This is why our party is sucking more and more everyday.

Your side hasnt won an election since 1956. Your side also was very happy with the "arrangement" that the House GOP had with the Dems prior to 1994. Conservatives brought the GOP into majority status, not moderate and liberals.

LOL.  Yeah, Reagan, Bush 41 and even Bush 43 for that matter look like downright liberals compared to people like Ted Cruz.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Here is what I say. Who cares? As a conservative I dont consider the people in SEA-TAC and Portland to be people I am interested in chasing or pandering to for votes. They are primarily atheists, socialists and people who reject American Exceptionalism and are Blame American Firsters. They wallow in multiculturalism and moral relativism and are increasingly anti-semitic with their support for the genocidal BDS movement.

It will be a wonderful day when white coastal liberal gentries, especially in CA, are outnumbered by hispanics who want their own candidates and not benevolent white liberals representing them.  Those whites whose primary concern is climate change even if it means banning energy jobs, destroying manufacturing and turning the state into a third world country with no upward mobility for anyone not employed in Silicon Valley or Hollywood.

Ugh.  This is why our party is sucking more and more everyday.

Your side hasnt won an election since 1956. Your side also was very happy with the "arrangement" that the House GOP had with the Dems prior to 1994. Conservatives brought the GOP into majority status, not moderate and liberals.

LOL.  Yeah, Reagan, Bush 41 and even Bush 43 for that matter look like downright liberals compared to people like Ted Cruz.

It's not too late to join the Democratic Party.

Meh, I'd just be ridiculed by the base there, too.  Think Walter Mittey 2.0, haha.

I guess that's part of a two-party system.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Here is what I say. Who cares? As a conservative I dont consider the people in SEA-TAC and Portland to be people I am interested in chasing or pandering to for votes. They are primarily atheists, socialists and people who reject American Exceptionalism and are Blame American Firsters. They wallow in multiculturalism and moral relativism and are increasingly anti-semitic with their support for the genocidal BDS movement.

It will be a wonderful day when white coastal liberal gentries, especially in CA, are outnumbered by hispanics who want their own candidates and not benevolent white liberals representing them.  Those whites whose primary concern is climate change even if it means banning energy jobs, destroying manufacturing and turning the state into a third world country with no upward mobility for anyone not employed in Silicon Valley or Hollywood.

Ugh.  This is why our party is sucking more and more everyday.

Your side hasnt won an election since 1956. Your side also was very happy with the "arrangement" that the House GOP had with the Dems prior to 1994. Conservatives brought the GOP into majority status, not moderate and liberals.

LOL.  Yeah, Reagan, Bush 41 and even Bush 43 for that matter look like downright liberals compared to people like Ted Cruz.

It's not too late to join the Democratic Party.

Meh, I'd just be ridiculed by the base there, too.  Think Walter Mittey 2.0, haha.

I guess that's part of a two-party system.

Why not independent? Does Maine have closed primaries?

You know, I'm not even sure (but I don't think so), it's never affected me.  And being an independent just seems like sitting on the sidelines to me because you're dissatisfied; I'd rather try to do my part to add a differing voice to one party and mold it into something I'd be more proud of.  And considering Maine's/my family's ancestral Republicanism, I stick with it.

Plus, let's be clear: my fiscal conservatism matters a lot more to me than does my social liberalism.