Posted on 10/14/2014 5:28:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
You remember how you felt a year before the 2012 presidential election, don’t you?
Conservatives were energized and passionately engaged. We were itching to throw President Obama out on his ear, along with Obamacare and all his other wrong ideas and abuses of power.
All the “conventional wisdom” indications were on our side. We had good, principled candidates lined up. We had thousands of cheering fans at our rallies. Obama had dozens at his.
It was a heady, exciting time!
Right up to the point Mitt Romney ran away with the nomination.
It was like we were Charlie Brown, and Lucy’s holding the football, and we’re about to kick a game-winning field goal, and …
And all we got was “I’m not a conservative, but I play one on TV!”
Obama was Jimmy Carter 1980 all over again, and …
How did we lose?!
Maybe a better question is how could we not?
We had a statist pro-abort who authored the model for Obamacare running as a pro-life fiscal conservative who was going to repeal Obamacare.
He couldn’t carry off a speech about how conservative principles were going to rescue this country because he didn’t really believe his own talking points.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Massive voter fraud was part of the reson we lost.
Best way would be to staff Rino offices with those traveling from West Africa.
To hell with the Gop,
Time for a new,
Real conservative party.
Enough of crappola like boehner,mitch and the damned bush’s.
Mitt? Get real.
The answers some people have, that could/would benefit the population are only for sale.
Does an author really lose a lot of money if a synopsized bullet list of his particular point(s) is published in FR or any other electronic medium?
Patriots will get all huffy because I opened with that statement, but I can't afford books any more and the information gleaned from a book is best digested (by me) in bumper sticker quotes ... my brain just doesn't stick with a book any more.
I'm old ... (er)
Quite counterintuitively....the quickest may be to get onboard with Liberal attempts to overturn Citizens United and restrict the money flowing into politics.
Our biggest challenge right now is that the Chamber of Commerce is literally buying the Republican Party.
The Tea Party and especially the Ron Pauler caucus thereof needs to work on reality and humility. Before spouting off, learn the facts. All too often we get meat puppets who spout fire and brimstone but have NO understanding of how a bill becomes law, what the limits of the office they are running for are or who the voters are. They run to the (ignorant) street corner preacher model too often and turn off people who are otherwise their natural allies.
IMHO
YMMV
AMDG+
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I am supporting GOPe candidtates with the same intensity they supported Ted Cruz, Joe Miller, Richard Mourdock Gunny Nick Popaditch and all those other “meat puppets” and “ignorant street corner preachers” you denigrate. The new slogan is “Payback is a bitch”
The problem with restricting money flowing into politics is that you need laws to do that. Then they have to be enforced. Enforcement requires another government agency. Government agencies get taken over by liberals, and then they become like Lois Lerner and Eric Holder, enforcing laws to their advantage. We are much better off without more bureaucrats.
~Newt Gingrich, 2012
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I have liked Newt ever since he put clinton under the porch but I rarely mention him because so many here didn’t like him. This looks good.
I also support Ted Cruz, Dr Carson is great and I love pittbull Trey Goudy!
I like Huckabee but not for president. Looks like I am in line with this post.
Awesome comparison of Romney, Obama & Newt. Leave it to JimRob. I still say Newt would have wiped the debate floor with Obola.
Romney “lost.” Romney will “lose” again. Romney didn’t lose anything that he wanted. Romney craves the recognition that is the Nomination from “his” party for his lifetime of loyalty, etc. He does not want the hassle of actually being President. He will take a dive in the Election campaign as he did before. Romney is, however, greedier than the other Party Stalwarts, desiring the Great Honor of the Nomination a second time and thus depriving Jeb Bush of that Honor. Or it might be that the Rockefellerites like Romney just don’t care to see the less central and less deserving Bushes get that Honor again. There seems to be a Lovestone divide here.
His argument is correct, but too late. Conservatives have already figured out the problem, which is the GOP-e, RINOs, and other Republican liberals and internationalists. And we are trying very hard to unseat them and take over the party.
1) The defeat of Mitch McConnell is key to the success of conservatism. If he is reelected, and again becomes majority leader of the senate, he will not, no how, stand up to Obama. In fact, *he has already said* that the minute he is in charge, he will *once again* change the senate rules to make it *easy* for Democrats to block any conservative ideas at all. Obamacare stays.
This means *no* conservative federal judges including one or two Supreme Court justices, *no* budget cutbacks, *no* punishment for criminal bureaucrats who will be left to keep their jobs, *no* reduction in the regulations strangling out nation, etc. It will be like two more years of Harry Reid.
BUT IT IS EVEN WORSE. Because it means that even if through some miracle, a conservative president is elected, Mitch McConnell will block him as well. FOR FOUR YEARS.
So NO CONSERVATISM, EVER, on Mitch McConnell’s watch.
2) The other GOP-e, RINOs, Republican liberals and internationalists are already planning to completely control the next Republican National Convention. They were *almost* beaten at the state level last time by the Ron Paul insurgents, so they are going to try VERY HARD to keep control over the entire process.
Last time, they changed the rules repeatedly to lock out any conservatives, and you can bet they will try to do the same this time. They will try to force entire state delegations to vote for the candidate the leadership chooses, or their votes will not be counted. Their RINO chairmen will vote on their behalf.
The RNC is going to be a major brawl, and conservatives are going to have to fight for every scrap of power they can get. They will have to fight for every speaker, for every time slot for every speaker. They will have a bruising melee in the rules committee.
And people like John Boehner, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, and many others will use every dirty, underhanded trick in the book to keep them from having any power at all.
Based on past experience, if conservatives overcome all obstacles and force their way in, the GOP-e and others will take away all support, and throw their backing to Hillary.
They hate conservatives that much.
Look at someone like Charlie Crist in Florida. He is so arrogant and self-entitled that loyalty means nothing to him. And he is pretty much the same as many of the GOP-e, so out of bitterness and spite, and lust for power, these people deserve nothing from conservatives.
Out of power, they should be purged from the Republican party, and good riddance.
Without Free Market Capitalism, however, society doesn't prosper in the first place.
“He couldn’t carry off a speech about how conservative principles were going to rescue this country because he didn’t really believe his own talking points.”
Romney lost for one reason. When he had Obama on the ropes during the debate, he let him out of the corner. Obama was dead and buried. Romney refused to throw the last shovel of dirt on his grave.
Feels good, don't it ?
From the Warren County Liberty Alliance:
ANN BECKER, PRESIDENT OF CINCINNATI TEA PARTY THROWN OUT OF KASICH RALLY LAST NIGHT! RINO PARTY NOT REPUBLICAN PARTY!
I am very sad for the Republican Party today.
Tonight at the Kasich get out the vote rally in West Chester a group of citizens gathered to protest Governor Kasich’s lack of clarity on his position on Common Core.
I went down to the rally after it seemed like all the cars that would pass us were there...
I was invited to the rally, it was in my polling location. I RSVPed that I was going to attend earlier in the day.
As I started to go into the building a police officer stopped me from entering and asked if I was invited. I told him, yes. He went inside to confirm. In the meantime, eight other people entered not being asked if they were invited...
The officer came out and said I was not on the list. I showed him the email RSVP I had sent. He said, “I had to leave the premises immediately or I would be removed.”
This is my Republican Party. This is how the Butler County GOP and Governor Kasich treats people who don’t agree.
I am very sad for the Republican Party today.
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