“Fast socialism with their candidate, or slow socialism with our candidate still leads to socialism.”
Ridiculous. Getting past this Mau Mau for the next four years was not irrevocable. In fact, buying time for the next leader to come along and using the mid-terms, strategically speaking, would have been a chance to cull the herd. Lull them to sleep with a centrist while putting a REAL team of conservatives together among the young players.
But noooooooooooo...
That’s the problem with fatuous short term thinkers. They gaze at their bellybuttons contemplating ramifications instead of putting out fires.
I have no problem with fighting the GOOD fight. I do have objections to fighting the “we are not as bad as them” fight. It is a loosing strategy as the recent elections show.
If the GOP wants to get back in control, they need to be conservative and run conservatives if they want the conservatives to support them. The problem is, the GOP-e don’t want conservatives. They don’t want to hear from conservatives, they don’t want to appeal to conservatives, they don’t want to even appear to support conservative candidates or positions. Conservatives are persona-non-gratis. The only thing the GOP-e want from conservatives is their vote. And when the conservatives with hold their votes, they get pissy about it thinking that they are entitled to the conservative vote.
Sorry, I’m not playing that game anymore. If the GOP wants my vote, then nominate a conservative candidate ... period. Tea Party candidates preferred.
At some point you are going to have to face facts and realize that you still can’t brow beat America into voting for the Massachusetts governor.
If you want to be useful, then try and figure what a disaster the man was, and help to shut down whatever mechanism or portion of the GOP that manipulated a failed one term liberal governor who left office with 34% approval into the party’s nominee.