Posted on 05/12/2010 4:27:09 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
“There’s something happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear …”
— Stephen Stills, 1967
You see Utah’s Bob Bennett, who had a few moments of apostasy in the congregation’s eyes and dared to bow at the altar of bipartisanship, and he is brutally excommunicated.
You see Arizona’s John McCain, who couldn’t please the faithful as a presidential nominee and now is campaigning as a Joe Arpaio disciple, and he may be the next to be expelled from the Church of the Conservatives.
And, closer to home, you see Sue Lowden and Brian Sandoval, who are desperately trying to preach the right gospel and make the parishioners sing along, and yet they are getting crushed in straw poll after straw poll.
For what it’s worth, the moderate-cleansing in the Republican Party in these days of tea and poses could pay off in the short run for the candidates who can deliver the best conservative sermons and fool some of the small electoral universe on June 8. But four weeks before voters who don’t cast ballots early go to the polls, you can almost smell it in the air in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial primaries — the scent of uncertainty, even of fear.
There’s a lot to say about splitting conservative votes in primaries: it’s been especially done in House primaries in such states as OH, IL, MI, and CA for years now.
Well, I guess the late Senator Roman Hruska (R-NE) would say that “limp-wristed mushy moderates” deserve representation too!
Any mention of Mollohan who lost his seat after 28 years.
DEMOCRAT
It’s a numbers game.
Is it impossible for you to learn from history? Clinton—43%-—changed the entire poltical landscape because idealist voters did not consider the strategy of election WAR.
I’m the least “mushy” conservative you will ever find.
Trust me.
But I refuse to fall prey to some well-crafted psy-ops using our own people as pawns to ensure our defeat.
If we “can’t win” it then there is no hope. RINOs like McCain will bring us Amnesty and that will bring us quickly to the One Party State and that party won’t be conservatives or Republicans. There is no middle ground.The Democrat Party is 100% socialist and totalist. Compromise with them on any point is shoving the center way over into socialist territory. The Marxixts have taken over the Democrat party in toto and purged it.The Republican Party is still all over the map. One side of that situation has to change if the Republic is to survive.
Ok, good point and I buy that-—using the primaries to flush and distill is good-as long as scars are not irreparable.
We just MUST be more strategic-minded in the general.
A third party candidate will be our demise.
Fear? The ‘Rats are in projection mode.
I don’t hink kicking out the moderates should be the issue(there is few of them left). I think kicking out the back stabbing scum of the country club is the answer. They are nothing but back stabbers.
No sir, YOU are. With your dogma of "be Democrat Lite and win"
We followed that dogma in 2008 by nominating McCain as you pushers of this theory that the GOP must "be Democrat Lite" to win demanded
How did that work out for us?
...and this article shows that they’re running scared.
Anybody on the ground in this district? What really happened?
WaPo characterizes Mollohan's defeat as an ethics problem, but the comments to the Charleston Gazette article point to Tea Party activism.
This is the way the system is supposed to work!
If an elected official actions do not represent the will of the people, he or she loses in the primary or in the Nov election.
If we had done this in 2006 instead of blinding being loyal to our thugs, deviants and crooks,like Mark Foley, just cause they were in office, we would not of lost the majority
Yup. 95 percent of the gop are just as bad as the rats.
Is the MSM still trying to spin this as an ouster of “Republicans?”
News Flash: This is part of the continuing PURGE OF STATISTS regardless of the party they claim to represent.
And guess what opened the door for perot in the first place?
Rinoism and mushy garbage from the Bush clan.
Get ready to go through the same thing only much worse during the 2012 primary. No one will be good enough and anyone who talks compromise will be mocked as a Quisling to conservatives. In reality it’s the independents who decide elections and as the Democrats are finding out now, it’s not a good idea to piss them off. I think most independents generally are pretty conservative anyway and we need to make our case without getting in their faces and calling them names. I think it’s good to defeat a less conservative candidate in a GOP primary but there are just some places where the best you can do is a RINO (e.g., Brown vs. Coakley). Given the choice of a RINO and a Democrat I’ll still take the RINO of course. A conservative has much more influence with a RINO than they ever would with a Democrat. Have you seen McCain’s ad where he’s being of all things a tough guy on the border? It wasn’t Democrats who pushed him into that position but conservatives.
Sir. I was going to try and write this type of sentiment but you have done it perfectly. Thank you.
*I love the smell of RINO fear in the morning ;-)*
.....Smells like victory!
There has not been enough fear of voter anger. That’s part of the reason we’re in the mess currently. The politicians should fear their voters. It’s healthy.
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