Yes, instead of conservatives adapting, overcoming, becoming better candidates/politicians, honing our message, etc, half the people here seem to want to spend all their time crying and whining about the "establishment". If we nominate good conservative candidates they CAN and WILL overcome entrenched interests and the mainstream media - but they need to be GOOD candidates that are electable in their district, state, etc. People like EW Jackson were lost causes the very second they got the nomination. So what was the point of that?
I see no yardage gained in running candidates who have the right message but obviously can’t win. We need to run candidates who can win and have the right message. We have to understand that in politics you can’t effect any changes unless you win office. I’m not saying abandon principles, but run candidates who are smart, effective campaigners, and have the most winnable conservative message.
As lousy as this election turned out, I will not forget the idiocy of the last national election where we threw away two perfectly winnable Senate seats (Missouri and Indiana) because we ran candidates who couldn’t keep their stupid mouths shut when they were obviously being set up for a trap by the ‘Rats. Instead, we got two extremely liberal ‘Rat Senators from what otherwise would be conservative (Indiana) or moderate-conservative (Missouri) midwestern states. How much did that help us in the Senate this session?