[Steel Wolf]

I heard the same nonsense about Duncan Hunter: “not getting traction.” Are you just a follower of the herd? A candidate “gets traction” because we the people have the guts to fight for him. I will fight for Cain, Bachmann, or Palin, but not for anyone else now in the race.

Nonsense? Duncan Hunter, solid conservative though he was, didn't get traction because ... he wasn't earning it. Politics isn't a Free Republic popularity contest. America is 300+ million strong.

At a certain point, principles have to give way to numerical reality. The reality is that Cain and Bachmann are not going to be President. They don't have the resumes for it. Palin might, if she jumps in. She was a governor.

That's not being a sellout. That's being cognizant of reality. Vote as hardcore right as you can at the local and state levels. For president, it's gotta be for the most rightward electable candidate. There's no such thing as a moral victory in the big leagues.

Cain and Buchannan simply aren't viable candidates. Palin would be. Perry is. Ain't no conspiracy. That's life.

[hellbender]

You just proved my statement. Being "viable" is purely a psychological stance; a matter of morale. If you want party bosses, money bundlers, the MSM, and incumbent hacks to decide our future, than you have only yourself to blame. The Tea Party is a popular rebellion against all that crap.

Michelle Bachmann founded the House Tea Party caucus; she did not wait meekly for the castrati in the Pubble hierarchy to give her the go-ahead. Cain went directly to the people through the free media. Palin fought the corrupt establishment in her state. Those are my kind of people. Not some hack politician who panders to our nation's enemies, while parroting conservative rhetoric.