The tea party did quite okay before the media and others started claiming to speak for them, define them, and tell them what was important and what was not important. There are any number of reasons people are mad as hell at the establishment. You want to narrowly define what is important BEFORE the people do by action?
Why don't you take your own advice and shut up about 'we' -speak for yourself! Stop getting your panties in a bunch and stop whining. You can do nothing to stop the debate and prevent the outcome from a dialog within an open free market of ideas decide what will decide is valued and what is not.
You do not care to defend DOMA -fine, BOEHNER disagrees with you. Excuses are irrelevant when you are wrong... Remember, Bush was not reelected for his fiscal policies -stick that in your argument to establish a winning strategy of fiscal policy against moral corruption...
McCain SUCKED all around -both fiscal and moral... That is how the leftists won...
I agree on McCain, that’s why I didn’t vote for him. Then again, I also knew how stupid it was to put Sharon, and O’Donnell, and others in the general ballot. What did it gain?
Well, let’s see. Harry Reid is still in the Senate. Great move on our part. Sigh. We have a complete liberal boob up in Connecticut and could have at least lived with a guy that was conservative 40% of the time, but now we get one that is conservative 0% of the time.
It’s all about being smart. I want conservative candidates, too. More importantly, I want to win. In certain states, having a conservative candidate on the ballot is an automatic loss and we need to be smart.
No different with certain issues. Do you want Obama to win a second term? Then be smart. If you don’t want him to win a second term, we pound him on economics and jobs and foreign policy. Go down these social issues at THIS POINT IN TIME means 4 more years of Obama. Address the social issues in 2014, but not in 2012.
This isn’t hard, but we’ll screw the pooch again on this I’m sure.