Well.....sad to say, but that’s now:
Miller, Angle, O’Donnell, and Buck all going down to defeat - in a tidal wave year for Republicans.
Sadly, though the Tea Party had some smashing success at the local levels (Congress), statewide Senate victories were a mixed bag at best, and relegated primarily to red states. The House is drastically more Conservative, thankfully; the Senate has taken a much smaller step right than the House.
Perhaps the goal, as noted many times here at FR, needs to be to nominate electable Conservatives from now on, especially in swing states and blue states. Just nominating whoever yells the loudest that they are the only “true” Conservative in the race is not producing ample victories outside of safely red states.
That’s right, we’ve kicked the rats off all the benches that were warming them for future office.
Exactly! Everyone seems to be celebrating the 2010 elections. I say: we are "effed." This win was not big enough. All we may have done is delay the inevitable socialist subjugation. If those four had won, we would have had a chance to actually turn things around.
You are trying to be pragmatic. That is not good. You are trying to compromise on ideology. That is also no good.
It is OK if democrats get elected in states like Delaware, Nevada, Colorado rather than getting RINO’s elected. So what if Reid is the majority leader and can call the shots on which bills can come to the floor. So what if if the majority leader in senate is not Republican. The main objective is to get rid of all RINO’s.
Murkowski IS the “moderate” Republican you would have us settle for. Are we supposed to cave to these power-hungry amoral career poiticians because they can get elected?
No, we’re better off knowing who’s who. Except Murkowski who still wears a Republican label and therefore will help propagate the “bibpartisan” propaganda when she helps shove some socialist crap down our throats. I’ll only support conservatives from now on, politics-as-usual be damned!
Correct.
Perhaps the goal, as noted many times here at FR, needs to be to nominate electable Conservatives from now on,
Wrong. Dead wrong. To blame the candidate when the Party is the problem is to cave to the group that got us kicked out of power. If RINOs were so electable, then please explain what happened in California where RINOs have dominated the slate for the last three elections. Yet the last time a conservative ran, he lost by less than 5,000 votes despite being outspent 5:1, and without a nickel in party support.
It would help if people didn't buy into the commies in the media attempt to call free states "red".
I mean when you fall for the enemy within's propaganda hook line and sinker, and the right starts calling itself "red", its no wonder that the commies feel they can get away with anything.
“Perhaps the goal, as noted many times here at FR, needs to be to nominate electable Conservatives from now on,”
You mean like Olympia Snowe?
Personally, I would rather take a chance with a true conservative than “win” with a proven Rino.
IMO a RINO is worse than a Dem.
I fear that many FReepers will twist your words "electable Conservatives" into "liberal Republicans"...and then attack you based on the straw man they have built.
Planks in their eyes, many FReepers will complain and whine about "sore losers" running and winning a plurality or majority. Many will think that somehow a win in a primary translates to a win in the general, when we look at a race like Christine O'Donnell's and realize that she got only a little more than half of the Republican primary votes--and Republicans are less than a third of the voters in Delaware.
[In fact, I bet many don't realize that the more people get to know Christine O'Donnell ($4 million later!), the more they realized how dishonest and nutty she is--and she got even fewer votes than the last time she ran -- when few people here had heard of her!]
The Ostrich Brigade would love us to stick our heads in the sand and not learn from this, just like they did in 2004--which led to 2006--and 2006--which led to 2008. Many want those who spout conservative lines to remain unquestioned, yielding us loss after loss because the general-election voter doesn't cover his eyes so easily.