[certrtwngnut]

I don’t hear any talk of Col. Alan West. I for one like him. Or am I missing the reasoning behind not liking him. Please give me the reasons he is being ignored.

[Nextrush]

Ted Cruz gets the headlines and has stood up to the GOP leadership directly over Obamacare and Amnesty.

He has the base of support as a result and is much more viable as a presidential candidate.

Unity of conservatives behind Cruz for president in the Republican Party is absolutely essential and if that fails and the GOPe wins, there should be a Third Party mechanism ready to run a presidential candidate.

[LS]

West is ignored because the rule of thumb is that if you can't succeed in winning lower level elections (see Alan Keyes) you'll never win a presidential election. Reagan succeeded in many elections---SAG president, governor of CA, actually had more votes than anyone else in 1976 (I think) but of course didn't have the delegates.

West lost his House seat. You can say he was gerrymandered, but whatever. You have to overcome that. It's the same problem, in part, that Rick Santorum had: it's hard to convince people that you can win the presidency when you can't even carry a state.

[SgtHooper]

He is being ignored because of the GOPe. We need to dismantle the GOPe before we have any chance of a true conservative takeover.