Well put, I am new as a member but have read FR for years as part of my news reading. I am 47 and would consider myself conservative on the lines of my original congressman Dan Lungren -a friend of the family- when he was a congressman here in the Long beach area. As someone new I am little apprehensive now to post, a little worried I could be banned. I have posted before that COD was a poor candidate and was fearful that she -not Rubio,Ayotte,Johnson- would become the narrative for conservative views and I felt like she was doing more damage than anything else to our cause.
I don’t feel I have to prove my conservative credentials to anyone as I walk the walk but i would hope some good natured differences would be tolerated.
A reasonable discussion of Christine is better after the election than before.
The most conservative candidate, the most Christian candidate is always the one that’s attacked.
Every single year, every single election, there will be a “most” conservative candidate.
We could run all RINOs. The media would find the one thing that the one RINO said that they want to attack, and they would attack.
The media will always attack. There is nothing that we can do to prevent the media from attacking. Being less conservative will not stop the attacks.
If Christine wasn’t there, it just means that Rand Paul would’ve taken more hits. If the candidate in Hawaii or Maryland or Vermont or Oregon was more conservative than Christine, that candidate would’ve taken the hits.
(Christine is a special case in a number of ways, however)
The point being, we don’t get hit more because we’re more conservative. The media will always hit us with everything they’ve got. The most conservative will take the hits. We need to get more conservative, not less. If we had 7 Christine O’Donnells - one in DE, and one for HI, MD, OR, VT, NY, NY, we woulda gotten one through. Those 6 mystery candidates were a complete waste. Put super conservatives in there, let them take hits.
The election was about Christine. Christine lost. But all over the place, in the House, and in the States, we romped.
Maine, before the election, had a Dem Governor, a Dem House, a Dem Senate. After the election, Maine has a Rep Governor, a Rep House, a Rep Senate. This kind of thing has happened all over the place. Yes, they were able to make the entire election about Christine, and Christine lost, but their message (”we’re not Christine”) didn’t work almost anywhere.