Have Conservatives Failed America?

NYC Right ^ | February 12, 2008 | Ron Lewenberg

[FR Class of 1998]

Romney was never a real threat - on the delegate numbers, he got creamed. He was also no rallying point for conservatives, as one of the RudyMcRomney RINO triplets. The unsuccessful last minute flight to his candidacy by some conservatives was due exclusively to him being preferable to McCain, which wasn’t enough to defeat McCain at the polls. And because the states were winner-take-all, McCain only needed to win by one vote in each of them to win the bulk of the delegates at stake the day.

[supercat]

Romney was never a real threat - on the delegate numbers, he got creamed.

Had McCain not won Florida, he would not have had momentum on Super Tuesday. It's possible he would have won anyway, but if that's the case he would have done so no matter what Fred did. Fred certainly did not help McCain in any overt way.

[neverdem]

The only conservative failure is having allowed the primary system to stack against conservatism.

That explains a good deal of our dilemma. States with too many RINOs and states that are open to independents lead in the primaries and caucuses now. There's something screwy when the donkeys are left with two hard core lefties in apparent fight to the death, and the GOP is left with some of the worst of the RINOs.

[rmlew]

No disagreements. And if you'll remember I went door to door for Paulo on a few occasions.

[rmlew]

WEll, they are FAR more conservative than either Hitlery or Obama.
Wilkie and Dewey were to the right of FDR. Ike was to the right of Adlai Stevenson. None of these were conservative. Fusionist Conservatism was born in opposition to these.

[rmlew]

We absolutely must chang ethe Primary system.
No independents allowed.
Space out the campaign and stop catering to Massachusetts North/Vermont East.

[rmlew]

We absolutely must chang ethe Primary system.
No independents allowed.
Space out the campaign and stop catering to Massachusetts North/Vermont East.