That is not true. There there simply haven’t been many good conservative VOTERS.........
If neither throws their hat in the ring we go with the B candidates - Rand Paul or Scott Walker.
If either of them lose early we get behind C candidate Rubio.
If it's Jeb or Christie we vote 3rd party.
Any good candidates that have come along have been shot down with ‘friendly fire’ by asshats like Allahpundit, that’s why.
“Why can’t conservative candidates win Republican presidential primaries?” We haven’t had any(conservatives) in the last 6 Election Cycles.
Circular. Firing. Squad.
Unbelievable.
The establishment plainly and openly conspires against conservatives. The establishment wanted Romney and stuck with him start to finish. They encouraged multiple conservative entries to split up the overwhelming conservative base. The hosted too many debates hosted often by anti conservative journalists.
In 96 Keyes was handcuffed shoved into a police car and driven to the edge of Atlanta ! Can you imagine if that was done to Obama.
We live in a hatefully anti conservatives establishment that condones the burning of palins church and all manner of incivility.
The articles argument is typical anti conservative propaganda.
Because there are 5 of them they split the vote and by the time there is 1 left it is too late.
Because the Republican primaries always have four or five fairly conservative candidates and one or two RINOs who will win a fair number of votes. And a few more assorted candidates with no prayer of winning a significant number of votes.
The conservative candidates split the votes in early primaries and the RINO(s) win the most votes in several states, several of which will be winner-take-all. Going into Super Tuesday a RINO will be leading and have a good shot at taking a good lead after ST.
Since there are never runoffs in primary elections, A RINO who can get around 30% - 35% of the vote through mid-February will take the lead and likely win. And there'll be three or four conservatives with 10% to 20% of the vote each.
That scenario give us McCain and Romney and it can give us Jeb Bush or Crispie Creme. Blue states pick our nominees as things have been the past few elections.
The reason is that we have been horn swaggled...hoodwinked into believing the tiger changed his strips after Reagan. The RINO’s just took the name Conservative....and took to their inner liberal big gooberment freak.
Only Reagan was a conservative.
-His having been a Democrat can be explained.
-His having been the only US president to have headed a union, can be forgiven.
-His having signed an Abortion bill into law- He later regretted it , all is well.
-His having been the only US president to sign an amnesty bill- Its OK, he was easily tricked.
-His having started the destruction of the family with his no fault divorce- he admitted it was wrong.
When he rises form the dead we shall win.
I read where Paul Ryan likes the same belt buckles as Joe Biden, so he must be crushed!
The real reason is that pampered, out-of-touch, pathological constituents provide the most money, by far, for PACs and politicians. Look around. See the political/regulator class. What do they produce? Nothing of value to Americans who would manufacture needed products if allowed to do so.
They do, in fact, prevent needed production, illegally (by the law of our land) spy on citizens, gossip, falsely accuse, rob real producers, steal children (to sell to pathological, false parents) and generally threaten the populace, keeping national morale generally low. Thus, the economic slide toward default, which is the remedy.
Show us honest candidates in favor of cutting public education (rules out those with families in public ed.)—men against environmentalism, animal-worship and other pathologies, men against fat federal funding to state and local governments, men in favor of a large, productive manufacturing base.
Or the political regulator folks made their bed. Let ‘em lay in it for as long as it takes (default, checkmate). They can huff, puff, whine and threaten most other Americans all they like.
Because the GOP-e dumped $millions$ into TV smear ads against conservative candidates in all the big electoral states and ACORN/SEIU committed massive voter fraud in those same states. This is why Rove was so sure his Sear suit model won on Fox news, but Fox knew the massive voter fraud would win over.
See the little trick they play? It sounds as if the argument is there hasn’t been a Reagan since Reagan. But that’s not the bar. What they’re actually saying is there hasn’t been as good a conservative candidate as the actual Pub candidates since Reagan. All you’d have to be is as good as the Bushes, Dole, McCain, and Romney. Quite the lower bar.
The Establishment strategy if tge past generation is transparent. To them it’s always ‘64, not ‘80. It’s as if Reagan never happened, and we’re perpetually in danger of being Goldwatered. They flip the usual process upsidedown. Whereas traditionally you play to the base in the primaries and spread out for the general, Pub primaries these days are about finding the most milquetoast candidate possible, then throwing chum to the party faithful with their relatively conservative running mate (Ryan, Palin, Kemp, though notably not Cheney). It’s also based stupidly on whose “turn” it is.
Penultimately, the goal is to produce an MSM-proof candidate, which always fails. There is no such creature on earth as a Pub that gets good PR from the MSM, unless it’s in preference to other Pubs. The ultimate goal is to hang onto the Establishment’s preferred position as the Slightly Less Than Democrat Party.
All we have to do is look at the Governor of Alaska, the most popular governor in America with approval numbers consistently in the 80s and reaching 93%, and she was known as effective and as a reformer, she was already one of the most interesting and accomplished females in American history with her biography and life style, and she could introduce youth, energy, vigor, and the face of a self made women with an American Indian family (all of her family including grandchild are tribal members, except her), and her handsome, athletic husband, as a rebranding of the staid old GOP.
So what happened when she was picked as the veep candidate? The GOP went crazy and turned into a pack of rabid wolves with prominent republican writers and columnists not only trying to destroy her, but actually endorsing and voting for the Democrats.
We always see this with conservatives, although never as dramatic as they did with Palin, for one thing in her case they had to react quickly or else she would become a Reagan like president within an election or two.
Cruz will never get equal standing with Rubio, and on and on.
Romney did not become the nominee because he is a brilliant politician, or had a message, or even had any place in GOP politics, he got there because he and the GOPe teamed together were an awesome force in shaping the presidential primaries for 6 years. The establishment is always an awesome force and they remove threats or at least weaken them, years in advance.
HotAir can go to hell. I recall they were pimping for Romney hard before the end of the primaries. Conservative candidates don’t get nominated because the GOPe does its best to undermine conservative candidates, as seen by the events of Bloody Thursday when Drudge, with the help of GOPe peons, unleashed false claims of Newt being an anti-Reaganite. We also saw this in their treatment of Palin.
It also doesn’t help that we have open primaries, thus allowing Rats to pollute the nomination process.
All of this deception, combined with an obsessive need to cover up the truth about Romney’s past, led to Mittens getting the nod.
You were S2, if I remember correctly. Maybe you’ll recall studies of Vaclav Havel, Lech Walenza and all, or not. Maybe we’ll do more of what is healthy, natural, moral and productive each year despite politics currently popular with the few who sturgeons of debt posing as big, bad bandwagons in political speech. Maybe that’s where the general situation is naturally going, this time without earthly design, Sir.
But then maybe having been a lowly enlisted type, digging lots of holes to sleep in and working temp jobs for decades, I’m only dreaming. Maybe I’m only dreaming, and none of this is really happening.
This is not the country that I grew up in. It’s been shut down to worthless activities by a lot of useless and spoiled people. How many of them would it take to change a transmission, build a house or index a gear, Sir?
IMO, we need old fashioned, real men in charge—not women who would print more funny money for public education and feminist domestic violence programs.
The $ and promotion from the GOP/RNC goes to the moderates/elites/insider pukes.
The biggest problem is that most of these “conservative” candidates have major liberal issues
Look at the names bandied about now.... most of them have liberal ideas on major issues... like Amnesty, weak on national defense, continued big government spending, Globalism instead of Americanism, weak on terrorism, etc
Move the first primary to Texas.