[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

[Kartographer]

DeMint another Godldman Sachs owned GOPe hack!

[Durbin]

Well, obviously DeMint is lying about cruz, along with Jeff Sessions.

Sincerely,

Rubio and Trump supporters.

[ilgipper]

Good for DeMint. I don’t care who one’s candidate is, these attacks on Cruz, our most visible conservative champion, are gross and disgusting. Frankly, disqualifying. Anyone using these tactics is an enemy of conservatism.

[MNJohnnie]

Still do not get it do you Eric, “Where arrogance meets incompetence” Erickson?

Bringing in people who rely on being part of the Establishment for their paycheck to vouch for the ideological purity of your candidate does not do anything to attract voters pissed off at the Political Establishments to that candidate.

[SoConPubbie]

    CRUZ or LOSE!

[jennychase]

Mark Levin, Cruz big supporter. Also big supporter and promoter of Orin Hatch.

John Nolte ‏@NolteNC 3m3 minutes ago Boone, NC
Orin Hatch on CNN saying SCOTUS could decide Cruz is not eligible to be president.

[dynoman]

[DiogenesLamp]

Ping to this article. :)

[marron]

Jim Demint is a man who should be president.

[MNJohnnie]

Senator Jim DeMint, the current President of the Heritage Foundation and former Senator from South Carolina.

You guys still don't get it. You are using the same old 30 year old campaign book. It is not working. When everyone from John Kaisch to Ted Cruz talks endlessly about being the "Real Conservative" the words have lost all meaning to average voters. You keep running the same old plays from the same old Political Establishment playbook and then wonder why you keep losing ground!

[Crucial]

The quote from Hamilton describes my feelings about Trump.

[so_real]

It's great to hear from DeMint; he's been one of the good guys for a long time and has a sharp mind. This definitely adds points to the Cruz tally.

[MNJohnnie]

Ok just cling to your failed Establishment political playbook of selective quotation, exaggeration and lying by omission. You guys do not get it. The political playbook itself is part of the problem. you are uaing the same old political tactics in a year when people are completely fed up with “politics as usual”..

Your candidates are acting like standard issue politicians running standard issue “politics as usual” campaigns and you wonder wondering why they are losing ground!

The voters have heard all the same thing from the GOP candidates for 3 decades. All the high flying retroic on ideological purity are meaningless to a voter who been underemployed since 2008,is worried if his employer is going to move his job to Mexico tomorrow and whose kids go to a corrupt, incompetent, gang infested school.

People want solutions, not “how many Conservatives can dance on the head of a pin”, ideological debates.

[MNJohnnie]

Ah you children, you worship a myth Reagan created in the 1990s by the Conservative Media Establishment.

The Reagan myth runs something like this. Reagan, after beating both Carter and the GOP Political Establishment rode into DC, took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves , and proceeded to beat the snot out of everyone in DC.

The real Reagan was a much more human, flawed, man. Reagan went to DC and proceed to cut deals with a Democrat Congress to move his political ball down the field. He surrendered on any number of political issues that resulted in the “Conservative Media Establishment” writing in 1986 about how Reagan had “betrayed the Conservative Movement.”

Reagan has some advice for your sort of Political purists.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”