Santorum was the last remaining credible Conservative in the Presidential race. Was he the best we could run ? By no means. However there is a serious problem EVERY Conservative candidate must face, in that they have to run against the establishment brick wall that doesn’t want anyone but big government liberals to be the nominee.
It’s appalling we have to run against our own f’ing party just to get a GOOD nominee through, which by the time that happens, if even possible, they’ve been completely bankrupted of funds fighting against that left-wing establishment, AND have had their names and character dragged through the mud. All of this BEFORE they face the Democrat and media onslaught for the general. And you wonder why our best and brightest say, “F it, I’m not putting myself or my family through this crap.”
The reason why Santorum was remotely viable was solely because of how horrendous and viscerally unpopular Willard was to the base and wanting to support someone, anyone, who remotely shared their values to go into the general election.
Indeed, it’s not Santorum I’m worried about running again in 2016 (I doubt he would). It’s that the establishment will insist on coronating that Zero bootlicking fat tub of $hit from New Jersey, Christie. You know, “Someone who can win !” Just like how McCain won and how Willard won. Gee whiz, why bother having two parties when the GOP does all the dirty work for the Democrats ?
It’s pretty well demonstrated the party establishment and the Democrats are in bed together. Might as well stop insulting our intelligence and they should declare it publicly, that their sole mission is to stop non-leftist candidates from making it to a general election, and only ringers need apply.
“It’s that the establishment will insist on coronating that Zero bootlicking fat tub of $hit from New Jersey, Christie.”
I liked that so much, I just had to post it again.
imagine a group of libertarian, grass-roots militias taking on the Nazi war machine. You cannot. Nazis could only be defeated by a similar organized, central-command modern military. Similarly, where is the leadership of the conservative establishment?
Fact is, the grassroots right has boycotted the presidential primaries since Buchanan’s brief surge in ‘96. Which was lead by delusional incompetents.
Bush coopted the grassroots in 2000. My error, of course, is that I have ignored the Paulista crowd. In rural NH and ME, the backbone of the anti-RINO resistance up here, the Paulistas soak up all the energy ... earning the support of people who normally support Conservative Regulars. Many McCain ‘08 rural folks in the NH primary (who led the charge against Romney in ‘08) ended up with Ron Paul in ‘12 ... (as strange as that may sound).
There is so much national party control over local events in the process that Presidential politics has ceased to be interesting to me.
Names for ‘16: Rand Paul. Sarah. Walker. The only conservative grassroots who will play ball early are the Evangelicals in Iowa and the Paulistas in New Hampshire and NV. And then Dr. Dobson can go to SC to tell everyone that he is uncommitted.
God have mercy on us. The UBSA. The United Bankrupt States of America.
I just finished reading a bio of Pat Buchanan. In 1999, when he was thinking about running for president (again), he and his sister, who ran his campaigns, were invited to lunch by a congressman from Utah, representing the GOP establishment. This congressman told Buchanan we think it's great you want to run, but under no circumstances go after George W. Bush; he's going to be the nominee. The guy said the money had been lined up and they had a timetable for victory in the primaries, and he WOULD be the one.
Buchanan's sister asked where Bush stood on the issues, and the response was, "It doesn't matter." Later she remarked that it was impossible to tell people their primary votes would matter because the whole thing was fixed.