[RedStateRocker]

It *ALWAYS* comes down to getting out the vote.

Weak RINO or second coming of Ronaldus Magnus, it doesn’t matter if more Democrats than Republicans show up at the polls. Barak Obama excited the hell out of his base in 2008 and he ran a better campaign in 2012, although not by as much.

Demonizing the other side as evil or traitors might make one feel good but doesn’t help the analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it; outside of social media it’s the same dynamic, lies, hypocrisy, vitriol, disagreement over what the Constitution says and means as we’ve always had, hyperventilation aboutd TEOTWAWKI on left or right does not change the rules of the game or how it’s played.

Left and right, for well over 100 years, it’s been the same debate: ideological purity vs political reality. No matter who is nominated in 2016 the functional dynamics and the need for a solid working party organization to get out the vote is what is going to determine who wins.

My analysis- worth everything I’m getting paid for it :-) - has always been that the GOPe controls the party structure and thus determines the outcome; they are slick enough to let ideological purists strut, preen, preach and holler aplenty during the primaries knowing they hold the keys to the machinery come the endgame.

[skeeter]

My analysis- worth everything I’m getting paid for it :-) - has always been that the GOPe controls the party structure and thus determines the outcome; they are slick enough to let ideological purists strut, preen, preach and holler aplenty during the primaries knowing they hold the keys to the machinery come the endgame.

Maybe, but they haven't proven 'slick' enough to figure out how to get enough voters to the polls in the general.

So now the geniuses in the GOPe think the winning strategy is to attack their base.

My guess is this will not work either.

[BlackElk]

And conservatives can be slick enough to stay home rather than vote for useless crap like McCain, Romney, Dole, Bush the Elder, Gerald Ford, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, McConnell, Cornyn, and their ilk. Establishment wind tunnels want to BUY the POTUS nomination??? Then we can and must teach them that they are wasting their scads of corrupt money because we will NEVER let them win a general. Rinse and repeat with increasing numbers of defections until the sleazebags get the message. If that harms Muffy's trust fund, tooooooo baaaaadddd! In fact, we might consider allying with the Demonrats on Muffy's trust fund reduction the way the RINO-Elite ally with the Demonrats on guns, babies, marriage, military, etc., at least until the GOP-E slime GET THE F*** OUT OF THE WAY permanently.

Not that I feel strongly about this or anything.