Well make sure you start with principled conservative candidates, not RINOs. Because RINO'S that look and sound like senators, congressmen or governor don't win elections and wouldn't take us in the right direction if they did.
Case in point.... 
Posted on 04/11/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Tea Party zealots who haven’t learned from their mistakes in 2010 and 2012 are trying their best to screw up the GOP’s chances to win the Senate this fall.
Where does the Tea Party find these people to run in primaries? Most important, why do they offer them up as legitimate Republican candidates?
The Tea Party bosses have been listening to too much talk radio. They seem to think that what makes a good Republican candidate is someone who sounds like a talk radio host.
But talk radio is all about bombast and attracting callers, not about winning elections.
If Republicans are going to win general elections in 2014 and beyond, we’ve got to put up principled conservative candidates who sound like senators, congressmen, and governors — not kooks.
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That’s good…and establishment is more of a mindset than anything else….
So Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio are kooks?
Yeah, there were also a few kooks, in NV and NH I think. I’d love to have a better screening mechanism. But that’s the risk of having RINO/ GOP-E lefties in office: You make conservative voters a little desperate, willing to risk losing the general election if it means uprooting the lefty RINO.
Common lie told by elitist. Akin was supported by mainstream groups. Palin supported another candidate and other grass roots supported a businessman. As soon as Akin won the primary and made his stupid comment, he became was branded a TEA PARTY guy by the same group that supported him.
FUMR!
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I’ll agree in a sense. Some Tea Party candidates are kooks, some are crooks, and some are decoys paid by the left to divide or embarrass conservatives. Don’t forget though that some establishment GOP candidates are big government insiders who are not significantly different from the big government democrats or the worst of those who claim to be Tea Party: some are kooks, and some are crooks just like with Tea Party candidates.
You stepped RIGHT IN IT with the Akin comment….sooooo predictable. Six term congressman, part of estab, and supported by McCaskills campaign in open primary to DEFEAT two outstanding tea party type candidates…both of whom would have destroyed Claire.
Wow! Guess so....sounds like he’s just another oligarchist RINO.
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Look, I understand where he is going. You cant just run a person that will shoot off their mouths like a Michael Savage. Nor can a person like Levin run using his radio persona because it doesn’t fly when people whom you need to vote for you aren’t in on the bit. That is why when he is on someplace like CSPAN, he has a totally different personality. you have to connect differently.
That doesn’t mean you don’t run as a conservative. It means you run using your “indoor voice” and you think before you blurt something out. Frankly a lot of people on our side don’t know how to switch it up at the right times.
At least I hope that is what MR was getting at.
the GOPe is run by kooks
He makes sense. He says the GOP needs principled conservative candidates that sound professional, not bombast talk show sounding candidates that don’t pull punches, only seek to attract avid followers while mocking those that disagree with them.
You don’t win converts without some diplomacy and class tact. The candidates that he refers to screwed up in the diplomacy/tact areas, he wasn’t criticizing their views. Certainly the media bled them with distortions as he knows all too well with his father.
Try not to comment like a talk show host - this is what Pope Francis keeps demonstrating - we all sin, so don’t laugh at the other side, try to befriend them and bring them to see you as human and a friend and see their points not just as knee-jerk opinions but see why they think that way. Accept that we will bring them around only slowly and with much personal contact.
Talk show hosts don’t have that time - they need ratings or their career is over. He knows this first hand.
Well make sure you start with principled conservative candidates, not RINOs. Because RINO'S that look and sound like senators, congressmen or governor don't win elections and wouldn't take us in the right direction if they did.
Case in point....
Is it Matt Bevin? Chris McDaniel? Lee Bright? All running against RINO incumbents. Who is Michael Reagan talking about?
I am starting to see a pattern. First Coulter, then Sowell and now Michael Reagan. I knew Mitch McConnell had lots of money but I didn't know he would have so many takers.
“I like Paul and Cruz, and would vote for either of them. But, I don’t see where either has a track record of making their ideas law.”
Because Senators cant make their ideas law. Thank your lucky stars that the Constitution makes it hard for not only us but for the other side too.
unfortunately the real jokes get elected - McCain Graham McConnell etc
Exactly!
And don’t forget about TW Shannon. Who would be as good as Cruz!
TWSHANNON.COM
This sheep, among the horde of other sheep in this country, needs to sit down and be quiet while the shepherds try to fix it.
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“I looked at Michael Reagan’s Wiki biography, and he sounds like one messed-up, unhappy individual. Probably not somebody you want to take advice from.”
He flunked out of Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Add that to his biography.
I have my doubts that Terry Bowman can win the seat being vacated by John Dingell but maybe running in a near no chance race is good practice for a first timer. Plus it costs the democrats money to defend the seat.
On the other hand, Bowman is an unusual candidate in the fact that he’s a union conservative who has been a crusader for right to work in Michigan. Basically its a race between Dingell’s wife who is an auto company executive and a blue collar factory worker.
It should be an interesting race with nothing for us to lose.
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