A. West, Akin, Mourdock, the guy who ran against Grayson—they were all Tea Party backed and they went up in smoke. Michelle Bachmann barely survived. Immigration and ever-looser cultural values have led to a point where there are more hardcore Dems than hardcore Repubs. We can still win, but it’s getting harder and harder with less room for errors/misfortune on the part of our candidates.
Akin was not the tea party candidate.
“Missouri, a bastion of the tea-party movement, has been shifting right in recent elections. The Tea Party Express and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin endorsed former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman in the GOP primary. Self-financing businessman John Brunner had the backing of FreedomWorks, a national tea party umbrella group.”
The tea party has been a stunning success, leading us to historical gains in 2010 for example, the gope has been fighting them tooth and nail, and as their disaster called Mitt Romney shows, the establishment doesn’t understand politics.
A little Cultural Competency (I hate that term) would not hurt either.
Nor would simply having an outreach effort that absorbed all the immigrant small business owners in the country.
Just sayin ... their interests and ours are aligned. It also helps that in other cultures, the Jefe is looked up to.
Also, dump the idiots before they get on National TV please.
No, we can't. The party is in shambles, the GOP-E have done their level best to suppress the Tea Party and conservatives, in general. We aren't going to take over a Republican Party that is blind, deaf and dumb to its base.
What we CAN do is one or more of the following: 1) stop donating ANYTHING to the Republican Party and START donating heavily to the Tea Party; 2) revolt against the government we have, or 3) divorce the blue states and form a conservative, Constitution-based country out of the "flyover" red states who also secede from the blue states.
America is beyond fixing at the ballot box, anymore. The rule of law is dead and the Constitution has been shredded and will be used as confetti for Obama's next inauguration parade.
“We can still win, but it’s getting harder and harder with less room for errors/misfortune on the part of our candidates.”
How do you define “winning?” Loose political power over disintegrating, bankrupt northern cities where we’re hated with a vengeance?
West was redistricted, as was Palin.
Akin was sandbagged by a question which was a "dog-whistle" for the slut vote: the centerpiece of Obama's strategy -- see also Stehpanopoulos and his questioning of Romney on contraceptives, the "vote with your lady parts" and "vote like it's your first time" ads, and so on.
Mourdock had to fight the GOP-e he was replacing, who gave him about as much help as Chris Christie gave to Romney despite Christie's being such an important speaker at the GOP National Convention, and the shunning of Palin and West there.
Not to mention the carpet bombing of Gingrich with negative ads, and jiggering with the Primary in Virginia and messing up the GOP state convention in Minnesota.
Conservatism can win, but not against a two-front war where one front is within the "big tent" (read : Quislings).