The 06 election proves my point. Ladies and gentlemen....Speaker Pelosi!
No, it proves mine. The degree to which "Speaker Pelosi" cultivated public revulsion gave conservatives the greatest opportunity in a generation, one which the Republican Party leadership deliberately booted. She accomplished virtually no harm at all all the RINO shrieking and wailing to the contrary.
Now we face two of the weakest Democrat candidates in memory, one hated shrill power freak and the other an airhead Marxist, either of which a capable conservative could have beaten in the general election. "Speaker Pelosi" was a Godsend who had retrained the public why they hate leftists at minimal cost, and the GOP blew it.
So what did the GOP do? Water down the conservatives in almost equal segments and let Democrats pick our candidate in early open primaries. They ran one military guy, one border guy, one evangelist, one "he can win," and even a Mormon to clear out that fraction. Then pile up all the primaries so that only a national candidate with name recognition mattering only to Internet-incapable geriatrics so that he could come out with a plurality. Then all of the segments dropped right on cue. It was brilliant in that now we've got the usual "anointed leader" with an open antipathy for conservatism. Time for the RINO swan dive in the general.
OOPS, committing the Democrats to McCain to get him nominated gave the Marxist enough MO to beat the globalist ice queen. Now they're squirming, because Obama actually means what he says (even if he doesn't know what it means). Now they're sweating.
Who are "they"? The corporate crooks who give money to both sides.
IMO it's our fault, right here on FR. We're the heart of conservative activism with absolutely no clue how to wield that power. Had we narrowed our support and backed a single candidate a year EARLY, he might have had a chance. IMO the best was Hunter. Huck is a closet statist. Tancredo was branded as "single issue." Thompson's dallying should have been a red flag that it was the globalist fan dance it turned out to be. Romney never was, no matter what the blinded Mormons on the forum believe. Had FR taken the risk to its cash flow and laid down the law early, IMO we wouldn't be in this mess.
I tolja so.