So we might as well nominate REAL conservatives and then do battle with people who like to fight, not milquetoast types.
This article could have been published in 1976 and mentioned the name Reagan a dozen times.
And who makes candidates “likable”? The foaming-at-the-mouth Leftist Democrat media. How convenient! They reviled Ronald Reagan, for God’s sake, as an out of the mainstream right-wing war-monger, and they kept up the drumbeat of how “dumb” he was throughout his brilliant presidency.
They are hateful, anti-American rabble who won’t change their minds until they get what they pray for, America on her knees, paying for all their Leftist wet-dreams of power.
Christie is pro-life and has vacillated on gay marriage but definitely is on record against. Why is Cuccinelli extreme when his views reflect most every Republican and (on marriage) most Democrats until 18 months ago)?
Getting painted as extreme for sharing views of 50% of the country is ridiculous and this must be challenged.
In 2012 Romney dropped the idea of asking Christie to run as his VP when vetting showed several disturbing skeletons that Christie would not explain.
If you don't the believe the democrats have that information then you also believe Obamacare is a success.
Seriously?
Yes.
They say exactly the same thing: moderates win; most conservative electable candidate etc...
They learned nothing from 2008, 2010 and 2012.
Or they know but don’t care.
Just ask anyone making this argument if President Romney agrees.
Es-spew did not write this column. McAuliffe dictated it word for word and told him what to say.
There, fixed it.
h words from the Washington Pukes is always whatever the Democrats want them to say.
When the revolution starts this paper and the New York Slimes should be it’s Fort Sumter.
Message to republicans:
**** you.
I think it was a strong showing.
5.56mm
Squishy moderate Republicans win...
...like the Cubs....
...at bingo games...
...jobs as talking heads on Fox...
...for democrats.
Boy is this hooey. Christie had no conservative challenger of note, and McAuliffe was sponsored with millions of out of state Democrat donor dollars, *as well as* millions to fund the Libertarian spoiler.
That was the most expensive 30,000 or so votes that the Democrats have bought, perhaps ever. And had the election been a week later, Cuccinelli probably would have won.
Seriously, with a few weeks out, McAuliffe had a 16 point lead, and even continuing to spend money like it was water barely managed to eke out a win.
The big lesson to both the Republican leadership and the Democrats is that they will have to commit massive resources even for small wins against real conservatives.
This does not bode well for *them* in the congressional mid-terms next year.
This wonderful piece of advice from the enemedia. Would have to be a willful idiot or Democrat (but I repeat myself) to believe it.
Let's suppose the GOP-e manufactures a Chris Christie nomination. I for one refuse to vote for any GOP-e candidate, but nonetheless, does anyone -- ANYONE -- in their right mind think that Chris Christie would attack the Clintons or any Democrat?
Oh sure, Christie will viciously crucify every Republican primary opponent during the Primary, but then, just like Dole. Just like McCain, and just like Romney, Christie will be meek as a tender kitten against Hillary, and Christie will go on to lose.
Eight days before the election in 2008 John McCain stood up and told Americans that they had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency -- eight days before the election!
Pffft....
How far to the left does one have to be to think KC’s views are “reactionary”?
"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it." - John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, 1777
Republicans, you are having what may be the last chance to preserve "freedom" for future generations! Moderation in the face of arrogant, determined men and women who believe that "fundamentally changing" America from its foundations in freedom into a model based on the Old World ideas from which it separated and distinguished itself--that kind of "moderation" is just cowardice disguised.
That Virginians, living in the land of the Author of the Declaration of Independence and "father" of the Constitution, would choose a political hack tied to the unprincipled agents of such "fundamental change," is shameful and illustrative of the degree of constitutional illiteracy which "progressive" education brought about.
Ask yourself, why would the progressive media and WaPo write an article to help republicans?
Conservatives win , if they get support , which is all Cucenelli lacked. He almost pulled it off despite full on dirty tricks from the regime and defunding from the GOP.
This election taught me that I'm done with the GOP until they start running Conservatives.
In reference to the author of this screed -
And who “Eskew”, Carter? The principles of conservative thought have not been tried, and found wanting. They have been made to appear too difficult and are left untried.
But once the insularity of propaganda has been penetrated, “Conservative” is really just good sense and pragmatic application of keeping what you have together and building upon a solid foundation of personal integrity and reliability.
One attribute without which the conservative position cannot long survive - the application of critical thinking, an art either never learned or selectively forgotten in the rush for instant gratification.
TANSTAAFL - There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody, somewhere, sometime, has to be paying for it.