Until 2016.
Posted on 11/08/2012 11:34:11 AM PST by Kevmo
The Battle To Takeover The GOP Begins Today
By Richard A. Viguerie | 11/7/12
Despite our efforts and the efforts of millions of other conservatives, who went all-in for the Romney candidacy, Election Day 2012 was a disaster – Barack Obama was re-elected President, Republicans lost seats in the House and failed to gain a majority in the Senate.
However, out of that disaster comes some good news: conservatives are saying “Never again” are we going to nominate a big government establishment Republican for President.
What’s more, we won’t have to – conservatives now have a deep bench of potential presidential candidates.
We have elected a new generation of conservative leaders who are capable of taking over the GOP to become the Party of small government constitutional conservatism.
Last night’s election of small government constitutional conservatives -- Ted Cruz, Jeff Flake and Deb Fisher to the Senate, the election of conservative Mike Pence as Governor of Indiana, the election of Trey Radel and other “boat rockers” to the House -- portend that yesterday’s defeats will spell the end of big government Republicanism.
They join such small government constitutional conservative leaders as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senators Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey, Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the 50-odd Members of the House, such as Justin Amash, who stood for conservative principles and voted against the debt ceiling deal.
Establishment Republicans ever anxious to hold on to power, and the establishment media, are going to blame “the Tea Party” and “radical” conservatives who voted for principled small government constitutional conservative candidates in Republican primaries for the election disaster of 2012.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Governor Romney won the nomination by spending tens of millions of dollars knee-capping his conservative opponents in the primaries and then handed the election to Obama because he and his campaign team spent most of the campaign mired in the establishment Republican folly of trying to win by standing for nothing.
The “stand for nothing” strategy didn’t work for President Ford’s 1976 campaign, it didn’t work for President George H.W. Bush’s re-election and it certainly didn’t work for Bob Dole and John McCain.
Republicans never, ever, win the presidency unless they nationalize the election by campaigning on a conservative agenda.
While Obama and the Democrats threw down the gauntlet on the social issues -- such as same-sex marriage and abortion -- Republicans ran away from such issues as same-sex marriage, religious freedom and Obama’s war on the Catholic Church. You couldn’t find any mention of the Constitution or the conservative social agenda in a Romney ad or in a Rove-run Super PAC ad or an ad run by the national GOP.
The establishment Republicans who held the reins and the checkbooks chose to run negative ads against Obama and campaign almost solely on Romney’s biography and economic policies, while skipping the social issues and the concerns of Tea Partiers and small government constitutional conservatives.
In choosing to ignore the larger conservative agenda, Romney chose not to follow the path that led Republicans to win seven of the previous eleven presidential elections.
In the Senate, two good and decent men – Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock – were defeated not because they were pro-life, but because they were inept campaigners.
Tommy Thompson, George Allen, Connie Mack and other establishment-backed candidates -- who ran as establishment Republicans -- all went down to defeat in the general election after being boosted past principled small government conservatives in the primaries by Mitch McConnell and the Washington GOP establishment.
The leaders who forced those kinds of candidates on us -- and manipulated the GOP rules to force the Party to change from a grassroots-driven Party to a Party driven from the top-down by Washington insiders -- should resign.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House John Boehner, NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and other Republican leaders behind the epic election failure of 2012 should be replaced with leaders more in tune with the grassroots of the conservative base of the Party.
Likewise, in any logical universe, establishment Republican consultants such as Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, Romney campaign senior advisor Stewart Stevens and pollster Neil Newhouse would never be hired to run or consult on a national campaign again -- and no one would give a dime to their ineffective Super PACs, such as American Crossroads.
Mitt Romney's loss was the death rattle of the establishment GOP. Far from signaling a rejection of the Tea Party or grassroots conservatives, the disaster of 2012 signals the beginning of the battle to takeover the Republican Party and the opportunity to establish the GOP as the Party of small government constitutional conservatism.
I’m going to pound anyone ho thought purity was more important than country.
******It says right in the founder’s statement that we are not beholden to ANY political party; FR is not a GOP website. So you are not being conservative when you pound conservatives for not voting for what JimRob called a lying, baby-killing, gun-grabbing statist. If you wanna pound conservatives for not voting GOP, go to GOP.com instead of trolling here.
As for FR being a conservative site. Too many here think the only conservatives are those who.... but they don’t get to define what conservative is for the rest of us.
***And in that very same statement, he defines conservatism:
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc.
“In the Senate, two good and decent men – Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock – were defeated not because they were pro-life, but because they were inept campaigners. “
WRONG...theyt were inept campaigners because they compelled by the issue of pro-life.
When will we ever learn? More of the same? Think about it!
You can’t be a party of Individual freedom and dictate to women what they can do with their bodies. Our issue is Individual Freedom...with it we can’t go wrong.
To paraphrase...those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it.
“In the Senate, two good and decent men – Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock – were defeated not because they were pro-life, but because they were inept campaigners. “
WRONG...theyt were inept campaigners because they were compelled by the issue of pro-life.
When will we ever learn? More of the same? Think about it!
You can’t be a party of Individual freedom and dictate to women what they can do with their bodies. Our issue is Individual Freedom...with it we can’t go wrong.
To paraphrase...those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it.
The most innocent, the unborn child, disagrees with you and is pleading for patriots to stand up for the right to life!
You are a supporter of murdering & slaughtering unborn children!
You are a monster!!!!!
You can’t be a party of Individual freedom and dictate to women what they can do with their bodies.
***I’m fine with that. The problem is that a woman’s body doesn’t have 4 eyes, 4 ears, 2 noses, and 2 mouths.
Until 2016.
There is no difference between the two. State policy, not talking points. Romney did not tell us ANYTHING that he would do differently from the kenyan. He just thought the Ward and June act would be enough.
See...that’s the problem right there...and you prove my point...both you and the other guy represent a segment of the party that wants to impose your morality on others...read your history... friend
...that is why we so often lose the good and noble fight. Have you noticed that you can’t impose your views because you are not in power...a Catch-22...wouldn’t you say? But you would be included under the Big Tent anyway...just not with too big a role.
BTW...you are both doing the work of the Left admirably when you insist upon keeping us out of power.
See...that’s the problem right there...and you prove my point...both you and the other guy represent a segment of the party that wants to impose your morality on others...read your history... friend
***I think the same right to life & protection that we extend as a society to vulture eggs should be extended to babies, especially those that are viable. If you have a problem with that, why do you log onto FR, which is a pro-life site? What do you hope to accomplish, trying to separate conservatives from their conservative principles?
Oh, yikes. It could happen. But here on FR, if JimRob endorses a pro-choice, gun-grabbing statist turd in 2016, I’ll be leaving FR.
“why do you log onto FR, which is a pro-life site? What do you hope to accomplish, trying to separate conservatives from their conservative principles?”
A pro-life site...excuse me...I thought this was an American forum..one that extolled our traditions and freedoms...celebrated our rights as a unique and independent people. Show me where the Founders referred to Abortion clinics and Pro-life demonstrations.
Conservative principles are not as narrow as you define...nor as proprietary as you explain them...I don’t see where this forum is dominated by anyone except patriotic Americans...who respect people’s rights.
You need to take some time and see the bigger picture!
A pro-life site...excuse me...I thought this was
***Yes. From the front page, the founder’s statement:
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution,
Go cry to the mods and get me zotted. If I have been here continualyy since Aug 2000 you’d think Robinson would have banned me before now.With conservatives like you the conservative movement will go the way of the Federalist party.
Go cry to the mods and get me zotted.
***I would do that but I’m more interested in guiding this horse to water, hoping you’ll drink from the water of simple decency and honorability. I’m hoping you’ll stop this behavior you’ve engaged in.
If I have been here continualyy since Aug 2000 you’d think Robinson would have banned me before now. With conservatives like you the conservative movement will go the way of the Federalist party.
***Um, no, the GOP will go the same way as the Whigs when they excised the socons from their party. How many Whigs do you know? Do you suppose the recriminations such as yours preceded the expulsion of socons from their party? Are you that confident in your middling coalition which didn’t even deliver you a victory this round?
A lot of people here really believe ignorant crap. Rubio is eligible. Period.
Better get your heads out of your tailpipes folks, you have become part of the problem.
Conservative Christians voted for Romney in great numbers.
Cheers!
This would destroy the union as the phantom ballots in Cleveland and Miami and Philly would rule the country.
And another liberal troll outs himself.
Abortion isn't about a women's own body: half the genetic material of the individual killed during an abortion, comes from someone other than the woman.
2) Friendship with Israel -- Romney and Netanyahu are personal friends, as Benjamin has an engineering degree from MIT and dealt with Romney when Romney was a consultant.
3) Romney did not want to reduce the US first to 300 nuclear warheads, then none.
4) Romney wanted to confront China economically, not surrender to them militarily.
Nice try, troll-boy.
Also read post #51 this thread...
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