Let’s hope conservatives/ tea party/etc. will wake up and see reality
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Posted on 03/21/2014 10:45:31 AM PDT by Innovative
Why are all these challengers bombing? A better question is, why did the D.C.-based right-wing groups and politicians like Rand Paul think these people were credible candidates? Perhaps it is the self-appointed protectors of conservative orthodoxy who are badly out of touch and entirely incompetent in vetting candidates. The good news for the GOP: Nearly all of these flaky figures will wipe out before the general election. They must do so if the GOP is to hold or grow the House majority and take back the Senate.
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Amazing how two-faced the GOPe is! Flippin’ liars. “Duke it out in the primaries, but we all MUST rally around the Repub in the general! Oh... uh... that is, unless a conservatives wins the primary. Then we bring out the long knives!”
O’Donnell got more votes than Robamany. You don’t have the answer and are the PROBLEM. Loser!
Rubin contends that all GOP candidates are Conservative and the most established & anointed ones must be supported. What she misses is that GOP does not always mean Conservative; THAT is the very reason there is a Tea Party! IF the GOP was opposing the Leftists THEN there would be no Tea Party!
To hell with Rubin & the GOP establishment she shills for.
“Democrats don’t spend their time attacking each other; they reserve all their invective for the other party. If we really wanted to win, we’d do the same.”
Nope. Democrats don’t have a bunch of judases in their ranks who support the other side. That’s why they are so unified. Bad analogy.
If you mean Todd Akin, NOT the Tea Party candidate; rather the social conservative candidate. Brunner was more the Tea Party guy.
The writer makes no mention of the incumbents, wacky, flaky, traitorous, anti-American efforts to oppose the constitution and freedoms of constituents.
Sorry, I meant to post the post below on THIS thread, just went back to the Reagan quote thread to get the quote right.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3125698/posts?page=69#69
Problem is that the author, Jenn Rubin, is a liberal pretending to be a Conservative, and really has no idea about what she is talking about, only wishful thinking.
I think you get closer to the truth if you see her as Lucrezia Borgia working for the WaPo and the Creatures of the Hive Mind, spoon-feeding Orthenex to real conservatives slowly and attentively, to work the WaPo editors' will on Norman Rockwell's America.
She's conservative only 53% of the time (last year's numbers), and conservative only on economic and budgetary issues.
Otherwise she is a certifiable East Coast liberal on social and other issues that conservatives care about, which are the guts of conservatism without which not.
Win what, inno FRiend?
More government? Is that what "we" want to win?
Folks who expected me to vote for Romney sure as hell thought so. They were wrong.
While obviously there are many terrific conservative candidates, conservatives need to be more selective before lining up behind someone, just because they declare themselves conservative.This is correct. Even if they're saying all the right things, you don't want a whackaloon getting elected. We already have enough whackaloon libs; we don't need whackaloon "conservatives" either.
If they start talking about stuff in the water and a conspiracy by “those others” to oppress you by vaccinations ... it’s time to call the white coats — and not back them for some political office!Ditto, friend!
Nope. Democrats don’t have a bunch of judases in their ranks who support the other side. That’s why they are so unified. Bad analogy.
Luke, a brilliant observation! Very well said! Good call!!!
I disagree with you in that Rubin [whom I liked when she first got her column] uses the "questionable" candidates [and they do exist, of course] to prove her establishment opinions. I've come to loathe her.
Jennifer Rubin is a phony as a three dollar bill. She’s always attacking Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz. She was a John Kerry-supporting liberal. She’s just the Washington Compost’s lib shill they pass off as a right-leaning columnist.
It is extremely difficult to defeat an incumbent in a party primary election. Someone on the radio said, it's been done successfully one time for a Tea Party candidate.
Republicans tend to be calm people and they are still uninformed and not angry enough at how the RINOs don't represent them and are simply the junior partners of the Democrat Party. It's hard for Republicans to actually think that their "leaders" will betray them.
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