The Great "HOW TO WIN ELECTIONS" Wars (tea party vs. insiders)

The Tea Party Tribune ^ | December 4, 2012 | Jonathon Moseley

[left that other site]

I am in 100% agreement with you!!!!!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I couldn’t agree more. You’d be happy with our Republican SOS here in Iowa. He’s targeting voter fraud and I expect him to pay a price for it.

[Jack Black]

The establishment didn’t nominate McCain and Romney, GOP.primary voters, and caucus voters did.

People keep thinking if we explain it better we can ein? Possibly this is untrue. Its a welfare nation now, the Dems have created the unbeatable coalition. Reagan himself would lose

Read Ann Coulters must recent column.

[Jack Black]

The establishment didn’t nominate McCain and Romney, GOP.primary voters, and caucus voters did.

People keep thinking if we explain it better we can ein? Possibly this is untrue. Its a welfare nation now, the Dems have created the unbeatable coalition. Reagan himself would lose

Read Ann Coulters must recent column.

[ansel12]

Romney kept out big challengers in 2008 by pulling huge fund raising stunts very early, and letting it be known that he would self fund if needed and that he had a huge labor force behind him (many of them Mormons), he still lost to two unfunded light weights though.

Romney has shaped the primary field for 7 years.

[justiceseeker93]

What’s the point when the door is held open to fraud with weeks of voting?

I specifically indicated that early voting should be repealed wherever it exists. And yes, it aids and abets fraud, especially the schemes where the same useful idiots get bused around for days on end to vote at multiple locations during the early voting period.

[little jeremiah]

Open primaries. Any state with open primaries is ripe for Dems voting for the worst R candidate. Must be stopped. Probably too late, though. “Voting” is just a thing of the past, as far as any honesty to it.

[Jack Black]

Romney was able to raise the money he needed to compete at a national level. Not too many of the other candidates seemed able to do that. And, maybe he did have a big volunteer base of Mormons. So? That's a good thing, isn't it?

Neither of those qualify as "the GOP establishment picking our candidate", which was the theory I see put forward that I just don't agree with.

[ansel12]

My observation is that “”Romney has shaped the primary field for 7 years.””, it is also clear that the establishment always fully backed him against the actual republican rank and file, who clearly were revolted by the man.

Thank God that this weirdo lefty is gone, 7 years of squatting on the primary process is enough, he cost us at one election, and arguably two, yet he himself was never really a republican, nor did he ever have any value to the party that he abandoned during the Reagan years.

Romney was just a rich Mormon Bishop who wanted to be president for some internal, personal reason, and spent 55 million dollars of his own money in the effort, to what end? For what political agenda? What are his politics? Mitt has a political identity, a political history, but the 65 year old career politician denied all of it during his campaigning for the GOP nomination.

[Randy Larsen]

Amazing analysis!

I think you are right on the money so how do we get the moderates to understand this.

[Jack Black]

Presidential elections are really different than off-years. Off years are always good for Conservatives. Obama had a huge machine to get everyone to go vote for him on election day, no such single machine was hyping the off-years.

It’s like the difference between the NFC and AFC championships and the Superbowl. It’s only a small difference in importance, but a huge on in hype.

[Moseley]

I think you are right on the money so how do we get the moderates to understand this.

I feel like we (and I) have tried everything. I think the only way to get GOP moderates to understand is to SHOW THEM how it is done.

That means that conservatives need to study and become expert in winning elections. That is, not just a few key leaders but many conervatives throughout the grassroots.

Then we need to DEMONSTRATE what we are talking about. Otherwise, I think the moderates in the Party will never understand what we are trying to say