Excellent post. Thank you for common sense.
I disagree with some of what you say.
1. Romney *and* Perry are the establishment candidates.
2. The Tea Party does not equal the Republican Party. The party should support only candidates who we think will take risks and fight for our causes.
3. The Tea Party will not go along with politics as usual and business as usual. It should not support an establishment candidate. It would be better to run our own third party candidate, where we would have a really excellent chance of winning.
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Close. I will not support Romney because he won't repeal ObamaCare or the rest of Obama's legacy. I don't see it as a "win" to elect someone who wears our t-shirt but plays for the other team. With the exception of those few in that category, RINOs who would cement Obama's recession in place permanently, I'll agree with your post. I favored Fred last time, but found him mostly dull in his speeches. I support Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and Cain this year, with minor fluctuations in that order based on their competitiveness. There are others I would support, but there are also some who will not get my vote. If necessary, I will write in Palin/Bachmann or Palin/DeMint, but I will vote (mainly to get a conservative Congress) . . . just not necessarily for the GOP nominee.
For Fred to get traction, he would have needed a pulse. Anyway, he was just running interference for his buddy McCain.
The reasons we lost in 08:
#1 The liberal media did not expose hussein for who he really was-—and is.
#2 We had a rino candidate.
All these Republican candidates hammering on Obama day after day is GREAT.
So... the reason why you poke at me is because I’m militantly anti-Slick Willard, the guy who made McCain look like Reagan ? ‘08 was lost because all the major candidates were RINO jokes (after Fred at least), the media portrayed Zero as Jesus and, the party put up a divisive loser who didn’t even want to win and Dubya’s misguided bailouts. All a perfect storm of fail.
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Karl Rove says he and consultant David Weeks persuaded Rick Perry to switch parties and run for state agriculture commissioner.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry draws mention in GOP consultant Karl Rove’s autobiography with attention focused on Perry’s win for lieutenant governor in 1998 and Rove’s role in his pivotal earlier switch from the Democratic to Republican party while he was a third-term member of the Texas House.
Rove writes: “Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend, David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for agriculture commissioner.”
If you ask me the field is weak and crappy, full of lets call them “moderates”, milquetoasts, and people you couldn’t imagine winning. All the best possible candidates are freshman Governors who aren’t running this time.
Looks like only 3 have a chance at winning the nomination, Myth, Perry, and Bachmann. Only one is strong conservative. I’ve all but officially endorsed Bachmann at this point.
Obama is circling the drain. Let’s not waste this opportunity by installing another “moderate” President.