The democrats and republicans just need to merge their parties and be done with it.
You cannot vehemently fight against your erstwhile base (on whom you have depended on to get out the Republican vote these many years in general elections for candidates that effectively cannot even wipe their own arses) and realistically expect them to just suck it up and hold their noses - again!
You GOPe types are risking everything, and you aren't going to get any new Hispanic voters because you want to capitulate on Amnesty for illegals. Not gonna happen. Instead you'll be complaining about the 5 million that sat it out, again. And then you'll start the whole cycle again for 2016. How many times do you have to get hit upside the head with a 2 by 4?
Lots of meaning packed into that word “win”. If a RINO wins we lose.
Barone, you cut-up. How about some evidence?
The NeoWhig Party’s last grasp at power....
I respect DemonRats in one way because they are proud progressives and are not trying to hide it. The GOPe types are progressive light trying to fool Conservatives. Better my enemy in front of me than behind me.
Barone = Establishment.
Tillis strikes me as an imperfect but acceptable candidate. The other challengers may have been better on the issues, but they both had serious baggage that would have prevented them from actually focusing on the issues during the general election.
Lee, Paul and Cruz are good examples of how Conservatives can win nomination fights in states that already lean (solidly) Conservative. Rubio had the advantage of being Hispanic in Florida working for him. We should have been smarter in DE, IN and possibly MO (Akin seemed fine until he stuck his foot in his mouth, then refused to quit the race)
The problem as I see it is that Liberals take the long view of politics and are willing to be patient as their agenda is advanced over years of not decades. They trade away 100% wins for 50% or 25% wins knowing and planning that they’ll come back for the rest later. Obamacare, for instance, wasn’t something sudden and out of the blue: it’s development stretched back to Truman and the Libs steadily pushed for it until they had the bare minimum to make it happen. Then took their shot. Same thing with gay marriage.
Conservatives strike me a lot as being ADHD in their politics. Expecting quick and immediate results and demanding hail mary passes to advance our agenda, ignoring the fact that long, boring and frustrating slogs are what really gets the work done.
This sort of mindset works to our disadvantage, and plays right into the Libs hands.
“Tillis benefited from support from Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and endorsements by Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. “
This is BS. Tillis won because he was the better candidate.
Rove, Romney and Bush meant nothing.
Moral of the story: THE BETTER CANDIDATE WINS ELECTIONS.
Barrone is pretty good and I agree with him more than not.
His implication that Rand Paul is a TEA Party favorite is incorrect. Rand shot himself in the foot with his stance on amnesty and views that reflect his dad’s (Ron). Likewise, Rubio did the same regarding amnesty (and is ineligible to be Prez; having been born to parents of foreign citizenship).
Dumping money in a race so that they can control that person if elected is why they are doing this crap. Rove and his ilk are nothing but losers.
People who can win? Like Dole, McCain and Romney?
Ted Cruz. Mike Lee. It can be done when we choose serious candidates. Far too many of the Tea Party insurgent candidates have been people who quite simply lack the resume or the gravitas to be taken seriously as candidates.