The trouble is that O’Donnell is a dingbat and Akin and Mourdock ran like amateurs. Do they really think the media is their friend? We cannot afford to lose winnable races.
In politics it’s a zero-sum game. We need majorities to move our agenda forward. Without a majority it’s a tough slog, trust me I know first hand. So given that we’re a reality-based community what should we do?
In Illinois the best we’ll get is a Mark Kirk-type Republican. Is he better than Dick Durbin? Absolutely. Is Mark Kirk my type of conservative? Not at all and barely close. Would the nation be better off with two Kirks from Illinois or two Durbins? That’s the question to ask/answer.
If I understand Longbow correctly, he’s arguing the same thing. Not that we should reject conservatism, but that we need electable candidates. Given our interests we need to find the most conservative, electable candidate.
Thompson from WI didn’t meet the above criteria. So this doesn’t mean we have to acquiesce to RINOs. It just means that we cannot have O’Donnells in 2014 or Akins and Mourdocks shooting themselves in the foot. Romney won both states. They didn’t. Had they won things would be much sourer for the One.
We need to look at each race/state independently. America isn’t monolithic and kids don’t learn conservatism until reality strikes...and sometimes even then it doesn’t take effect.
We need to look at each race/state independently. America isn’t monolithic and kids don’t learn conservatism until reality strikes...and sometimes even then it doesn’t take effect.
Exactly correct. This is precisely what I am trying to get across at every opportunity. And yeah, it runs afoul of the impatient purist types who think running a Pat Robertson clone for Governor of some socially liberal blue state is a worthwhile endeavor. Some of these people just don't want to hear that their purist firebrand candidates who spout silly conspiracy theories aren't up to the task of winning elections.
The lesson is simple, nominate the MOST conservative candidate that CAN win. That means our candidates have to be more than just right on the issues, they have to have good political instincts and skills as well - AND they have to be able to stand up to intense scrutiny since conservatives are always attacked by the media.
Republicans lose many races, and until recently, that was the norm, and now these rinos memorize every loss that wasn’t fully approved by the GOPe and pretend that it is because conservatism is wrong.
In the meantime rinos keep losing election after election, sure incumbent rino Senator Scott Brown lost his Senate seat, but rinos want to talk about Angle not taking the seat of the Senate majority leader, but the biggest rino of all, the most important race in America, a race that was impossible to lose, the presidency, was a rino disaster, so what do the rinos want to talk about? Christine O’Odonnell’s failure to take Joe Biden’s senate seat back in 2010.
Palin’s judgement seems vastly superior to anything that we have ever seen in identifying conservative breakthroughs, her involvement in about 80 races has proven her the greatest endorser in history.
Don’t listen to the anti-tea party rinos. Karl Rove for instance spent 100s of millions of dollars on zilch, in 2012, while Palin gave us Cruz and our only Senate seat pickup, and success in other races, too bad her efforts against Akin didn’t pay off.