“Reagan took Bush. I don’t think it was out of any great love for George H.W. Bush, but out of a need to get the RINO wing of the party united behind the only genuinely conservative candidate in half a century or more.”
Very well said, as was your entire post. Been my philosophy for a long time now.
Folks, we just can’t let 2012 be a repeat of ‘08 which is dangerously close to resulting in the demise of this republic. We MUST get b. hussein obama out at any and all costs or you can kiss it goodbye. The example of Reagan’s reasoning is spot on. Our candidate must be a unifier - not divisive, and - electable! Also, that candidate (unlike McCain) has GOT to run a rock-solid, non-PC (even ruthless if necessary) campaign against arguably the worst enemy of this country to ever occupy the people’s White House.
We usually get who the media and the party want us to have. Sometimes it is because, in their opinion, it is some person’s turn.
In 1976, they gave us Gerald Ford instead of Ronald Reagan. That in turn gave us Jimmy carter.
In 1992, they gave us George H.W. Bush which gave us Bill Clinton. However, if Bush had not been conned by George Mitchell into violating his campaign slogan, “Read my lips, no new taxes!” he would probably have beaten Clinton.
In 1996, we got Bob Dole. Everybody knew that was a throwaway.
In 2008, we got John McCain. Had it not been for Sarah Palin that would have been a rout for Obama.
Now, the media and the party want us to have Romney.
For way too long the accepted wisdom has been that numbers and majorities control the political power. That is true, of course, but that concept has left both parties chasing after an illusive and perhaps fictitious mushy middle of so-called moderates. The end result is often that you can’t tell one party from the other.
Another aspect that has come into play is that the Democrats have become so aggressively Leftist, the secret word there is aggressive as they have been Leftist for a long time, that having a small majority over them is not enough. They will bend and stretch the rules to get their way and they can always trust the media to make them seem to be doing the right thing. The result is the Republicans end up with a bunch of unreliable moderates and the majority means nothing.
Yet, the Party and the party’s political consultants still maintain a tight grip on the process. The Tea Party Movement is destroying that and the “establishment” doesn’t like it a bit. Sarah Palin calls the establishment career politicians and she is right. Politics is their business and they have made a handsome living off it for years. They won’t give it up easily.
However, now is our time to take the reins away from the establishment and return the government to the people. I am not against all politicians. If there are those who have strong and reliable conservative values we would be foolish not to consider their political experience but I would rather have dedicated conservative patriots with no experience than a sometimes conservative with experience. I am tired of compromising because we always lose our values in those compromises.
Like it or not establishment, here we come. Who cares if O’Donnell loses to a Communist Democrat? She defeated a Socialist Republican so we made that much progress. If we get behind her and the other conservative Republican women they may all win. That would be great and would send a resounding message to the world that America is coming back.