Barry Goldwater was 'right' but he couldn't win an important election either. Why are 'Conservatives' so adept at loosing elections?
>> So why aren’t the Republicans running a better candidate? If you ‘Conservatives’ don’t have enough support to get a good Republican on the ballet, how do you think you can possibly win an election? <<
You did read where there was no primary, right? Where this nomination was the product of a backdoor meeting between several county party chairman, right?
>> Barry Goldwater was ‘right’ but he couldn’t win an important election either. Why are ‘Conservatives’ so adept at loosing elections? <<
That’s your own idiotic assertion, which bears no resemblance to reality. Better question: Why are Illinois, New York, California, Massachusetts, and even Vermont once bastions of the Republican Party helplessly Democratic? Is it because Vermont has more minority voters than South Carolina? Is it because the urban nature of Vermont makes Vermont voters more reflexively communitarian? No, it’s because idiots thought that people like James Jeffords and Nelson Rockefeller were more “electable” than conservatives like Ronald Reagan. So while Vermont voters have fewer abortions than Georgia or Texas, more gun club memberships than Oklahoma, are less likely to voice support income redistribution than Alaskans or Utahans, have demographics that skew much more to the Republican base than just about anywhere else in America, and have a healthy, well-funded Republican party, they repeatedly elect the most radically left-wing senators in America. Why is that? Because the state is crawling with people who think like you. In New York, Massachusetts and California, it’s worse than that. When even Republican governors assault conservatism regularly, the voters have no place to even hear a conservative argument, so conservatives become thought of as a wierd, alien race.