I am assuming that by "The Rest of Us" they mean whomever they can pander to while causing their base to balk...
Posted on 05/07/2012 8:59:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
It should come as no surprise that the Republican National Committee has been “covertly” supporting Mitt Romney throughout the primaries, as POLITICO recently “revealed.” It was the worst-kept secret in Washington
Reagan, the über outsider, called for a “new Republican Party” back in 1977. Reagan wanted the GOP to shed its country club, corporate boardroom image and become a genuine conservative movement, focused on the individual.
Reagan’s words threatened the status quo of the scions and heiresses of the country club and corporate boardroom set. The former California governor and his conservative followers were never accepted by these insiders
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The Republicans’ desire for power is usually stronger than any desire for restraint by conservatism. It always seems to leave conservatives disappointed.
Many conservatives have, in fact, decided that their beliefs have become permanently inconsistent with Republicanism. This may be more apparent in 2012 than ever before. No offense to Romney, but he is the perfect nominee for the Republican Party in 2012 because he — like the GOP — has adopted a variety of positions over the years in order to acquire power. The Etch A Sketch comment was stunningly accurate.
The “lesser of two evils” argument is now settling over the landscape. Perhaps. The “conservatives have no place else to go” storyline is being pushed. Maybe.
On the other hand, some conservatives now view this election as a clear Hobson’s Choice or possibly a Morton’s Fork. One choice is bad or nothing; the other between two bad options.
Conservatives should be clear-eyed, though. The job of the Republican Party is to deceive conservatives into handing over their support. This does not mean that conservatives can’t arrive at the conclusion that this choice is between the lesser of two evils.
But they should prepare to be disappointed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
Conservatives sent the RNC a message during the 2010 interim elections and also with Lugar, Hatch and in Wisconsin. The RNC did not listen.
There was considerable shifting of primary dates during this years process and that was done to benefit Romney.
I know many republicans that will NOT support Mitt Romney and are no longer giving a dime to the RNC.
To the headline: if it’s not it should be.
Sorry, but it is the GOPE who have handed us the devil by force feed. I can’t swallow this time.
These other candidates were not serious, but entered unfunded, hoping and waiting for funding. The GOPE was funded BY Romney, which indebted them to him far in advance of the contest, as you know, and then THEY funded him.
We have to find our candidate NOW and begin funding him, and also our best conservatives in office, and on the farm team.
Who’s it gonna be?
Bull. The only thing "we" did wrong was tolerate the GOPE passivity during the Palin crucifixion.
>”The harsh reality is nothing other than Conservatives failed to sell their message to the bulk of the Republican electorate.”<
Though you don’t seem to be getting much support in this thread, I agree with you. The Republican Party isn’t far enough to the right to suit me either, but Republican primary voters obviously make up the more conservative half of the country’s electorate (or least leftist). If a conservative can’t win there, how the hell is he going to be able to win the general election?
Let’s face it. We lost again. I didn’t like McCain last time, and I don’t like Romney this time. That’s no reason to let Obama win, though. The writer cites Reagan, but if I recall correctly, Reagan continued to work within the Republican party while his supporters were still in a minority, until he finally had enough support to win the nomination. He didn’t attempt to start an independent party. If he had, I don’t think he would have been President.
F^&*(K them....
Word!
I am assuming that by "The Rest of Us" they mean whomever they can pander to while causing their base to balk...
There are many taboos that have been cast aside in the pursuit of “winning” since Reagan’s time.
To somehow argue that the process over the last several months has been unfair or unrepresentative of the will of the Republican electorate is absurd.
As a foaming at the mouth flopping on the floor conservative, I am bitterly disappointed that the party has chosen a certifiable Rino as its standard bearer but I will not deceive myself that I have somehow been defrauded. I supported Newt from the very beginning, before Jim Robinson came out in his support and for he explicitly endorsed views I expressed in a vanity. I caught a great deal of flak for doing so and I caught that flak from equally committed conservatives here on Free Republic.
I lost because I could not persuade enough people to see things my way.
Guess what, that is not the fault of the establishment of the GOP. That is my fault.
I will not compounded my error and my own failure by ensuring the election of Barack Obama and the diminishment of the only political party which has a chance of acting as the vehicle for true conservatism.
The Romney/Rockefeller wing of the GOP was fighting hardball for the 2012 nomination when they started working to stop, and to discredit, Governor Palin back in September of 2008.
No more cringing, cowardly, unprincipled greedhead RINO elitists MEANS no more cringing, cowardly, unprincipled greedhead RINO elitists. It is as simple as that.
Robozombie is EVERY BIT the devil that Obozo is. top kidding yourself.
Agreed!! The GOPE openly attacked Sarah and conservative joined in by saying that she was so beat up by them and the media that she was a lost cause and so they claim that they loved her but had to throw her overboard for the sake of conservatism
I wish but, we are closer.
By 2016 SCOTUS will be packed with Obama stooges for the next 20 years.
You won’t even recognize America then.
Live in denial if you wish. The rest of us will fight to the bitter end, no thanks to you.
Sure they were.
That the denial is rather Byzantine in character doesn't make it any less dishonest, nor any less efficacious.
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