I agree. Here’s an excerpt of an article op-ed I came across:
“...Lord insists we need more “New Reagans” — people of all backgrounds, all races, all religions — who are well-versed in conservatism.
And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie “Tan-in-a-Can” Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.
There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.
And one inappropriate and/or misconstrued remark by Mourdock (and a crackpot third-party candidate) helped cook his campaign.
It’s not the conservatives who need to go away. It’s the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist — who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate — lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.
And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don’t need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party. And if they refuse to cede power we will defeat them as we have time and time again.”
Link: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/11/deja-vu-all-over-again-another-cant.html
And on a side note I believe that is was the Obama machine that eliminated Bachman, Cain and Gingrich during the Rep. primaries. Why? because bachman threated the woman demorat voting block, Cain threatened the demorat black voting block and Gingrich, despite his flaws, would go for Obama’s juglar vein and not run a soft junk campaign like Romney.
I agree. But let’s consider the possibility, for the sake of argument, that we are wrong. That a Reagan conservative, one who is well-versed and intelligent, can’t actually win.
Well, we should run him anyway.
Obviously, we can’t do any worse. We can’t do worse than Bush (92), Dole, McCain and Romney. Stating the obvious here.
But if Phil Gramm had lost in 1996 instead of Dole, what sort of trajectory would we have been on? Perhaps a completely different one.
And the final point. When it all comes crashing down, as a matter of fact, not opinion or partisanship, but as a matter of FACT....which policies will lead us out of Greece-like economy?
Only the Reagan / Thatcher policies of economic growth, entitlement shrinkage, freedom, and cutting discretionary spending.
If we don’t ever articulate those, even in a losing campaign (such as my hypothetical Phil Gramm campaign of 1996), then how do we ever start the push back? What resources will we fall back on, if we never even publicly articulate our agenda?
It seems that win or lose, we have a duty to speak the truth because if America is to survive, only the truth will allow us that.