You’re absolutely right about that: The RNCC waited until it was obvious that Hoffman was an actual contender, according to the current numbers, THEN they embraced him.
That is the classic ‘weasel move’ , and that is symbolic of SO much that is wrong with the GOP.
NO ONE should forget just what their fudge-brained cop-out decision was at the beginning, with the lame endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, just as no one should forget what the Zero Administration WANTS to do , IS TRYING to do-—take them both at their word. The fact is, there is too much inbuilt and growing resistance among voters not entranced by Partisan Party politics to allow ALL of the Authoritarian Zero Agenda, to make us open wide and allow all this to be shoved down our throats, whether from the ‘GOP’ or the Zero Administration. Having said all that, there already exists on this thread some very incisive and interesting ideas on the wisdom or lack of it in trying to promulgate the idea of a Third Party, or trying to deal in pragmatic terms with the realities of the existing Republican Party, or (and this is “the rub”) recognizing that the existing GOP may just be stuck in their bad habits to such an extent that the time-frame necessary for them to pull out of those habits of accomodation is just too long and unpredictable for any of us to want to abide watching that process and ‘hoping for the best’. I would like to see a thread which tackles IN DEPTH the whole idea of what it would take to bring this major party, the GOP, to actual conservative principles , and , beyond that, how to illuminate the real issues and bring the carefully dumbed-down electorate over to our side.
This is not an impossible task, just a vexing one.
This is the beginning of a movement which has the potential to bring America back from the abyss, and that can ONLY be done by assessing th situation for what it is, and FIRST, taking as our PRIMARY goal , to resist, mock,and discredit
this demagogic Administration, which SO FAR, seems to have gotten away with SO MUCH MORE that even I, ultimate cynic from the age of 14, thought they’d EVER be able to get away with.
Think you are a cynic now, wait until you are sixty. :D)