Posted on 06/30/2014 4:14:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was furious that Thad Cochran slimed his way to victory, but every time we hardcore conservatives lose a battle, it seems a contingent of bitter-enders starts up about how the Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, and how they’ll refuse to vote in the general, and how they’ll take their collective ball and go home.
That’s crazy talk. We can get even with the GOP establishment later; we need to beat the Democrats first.
Now, many of my good friends disagree with me here, but I respect them enough to say what I think. And I think that when we focus on the establishment’s antics in Mississippi instead of focusing on November, we make Barack Obama happier than if he got to play 18 holes with the ghost of Karl Marx.
Let us assume that Thad Cochran didn’t play fair. Now let me assume the role of your father:
Life is not fair.
Yeah, I was shocked – shocked! – that our opponents refused to commit ritual suicide in order to allow our chosen candidate to waltz into the nomination that, a couple weeks ago, was his for his taking. Was anyone expecting the establishment to go quietly, to rollover, to not use every tool at its disposal to hold on to power?
We’re conservatives. We’re not supposed to make excuses, but I’m sure hearing a lot in the wake of Cochran’s win.
Yeah, his win. News Flash: Thad Cochran got more votes than our guy. That means our guy failed to perform the most important function of a conservative politician.
He failed to win.
Hell, he couldn’t handle the GOP establishment calling him a racist. Why does anyone imagine he could have handled the Democrats doing it in November? They’re the pros!
Yeah, Cochran dared to appeal to Democrats…who voted for him. It would be nice to have other Republicans embrace this innovative concept.
Am I happy about the slanders Cochran’s buddies spread, or about the way the K Street crew spent zillions to keep Thad awake and away from the livestock long enough to get nominated?
No, but that ship has sailed and sank. Winners leverage their assets into victory.
Am I suggesting that we forgo our vengeance? Never! I’m all about payback. But getting even with these K Street creeps can wait. I say defeat the Democrats first. Instead of choosing to fight two opponents at once, we can deal with these establishment tools later from a position of strength when Reid’s reign is just a bad memory.
I’m getting sick of this quitter talk about how we can’t possibly win, about how everyone’s against us, about how this struggle being hard is some sort of cosmic injustice perpetrated upon us by mysterious forces beyond our control.
George Washington and his men ate their damn shoes as they shivered in Valley Forge. That’s adversity, not having to somehow find the strength to carry on after nominating a Republican who is sure to win in November and has a mere 88 percent conservative rating.
This isn’t about our feelings. This isn’t about our “principles” either. There is no principle that compels us to allow Barack Obama to retain a Senate majority that absolutely will confirm a Supreme Court justice who will absolutely vote to:
Might some GOP senate dork vote to confirm someone like that? Maybe, but a Democrat absolutely will. Refusing to support every GOP nominee means you are choosing to be silenced, disenfranchised and disarmed.
Yeah, that’ll sure show Thad Cochran and all his pals. The only thing he’d like more is a lap dance in the champagne room at the local 4-H Club.
So we’ve lost a battle. We’ve lost them before, and we’ll lose them again. Did you think this business of taking our country back would be easy? Did you expect a cakewalk? Well people, this is where we winnow out the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots.
My new book, Conservative Insurgency, is a speculative history of what it will take to win this contest for our nation’s soul, and it has a subtitle: “The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041.” That’s right – this fight will take decades. The progressives couldn’t run a great country like ours into the dirt overnight and we won’t pick it back up in a day.
So here’s the deal. We suck it up, vote for Thad if we live in Mississippi, and focus on fights where we can run up the score. Louisiana. Colorado. Alaska. How about Joni Ernst in Iowa? Are you so mad at the GOP that you’ll abandon this Army veteran to a trial lawyers’ puppet who thinks farmers are dummies?
Yeah, the establishment sucks. But so does helping it win by indulging your frustrations instead of standing up, brushing yourself off, and getting back in the ring for another round. You want to send a message? Let victory be your message.
But there’s no easy way to win.
A third party isn’t going to do it.
Refusing to vote for GOP candidates isn’t going to do it.
Trying to occupy some pseudo-moral high ground by refusing to dirty your hands by making hard choices between sub-optimal options isn’t going to do it.
There’s one path to victory.
We fight.
We fight for the best GOP candidate in the primary.
We fight for the GOP candidate in the general.
We fight, starting at the precinct level and working up, for control of the Republican Party apparatus.
Look how far we’ve come. Ted Cruz. Rand Paul. Mike Lee. Plus all the rest trying their best to prove their conservative bona fides to us. Oh, and I’ll have fries with that, Eric Cantor.
All in just five short years.
Think how far we can go to returning America to greatness – if we fight.
How many times have we heard THAT before?
Time for the GOP-E to reap the whirlwind it has sown!
We will fight against the GOP when it is the same as the
DNC.
We will fight against the GOP when it is comprised
of the proObama Team Romney.
We will fight against the GOP when it is comprised
of the conservative-backstabbing Team Romney.
This article presupposes that Cochran won but did not cheat. I think he cheated twice - once in the primary to prevent McDaniel from getting over 50% and once in the runoff by getting illegal voters to the polls and by not counting absentees. Cochran’s mom is the one in charge of the biggest Dem county.
Nevertheless, I prefer a GOP Senate. Cochran and other cheaters will get their due - but I’m not going to cut off my nose to spite my face.
Which of these three is unlike the others?
Hint:
Time someone said those things. Thank You.
All too often it seems there are those more interested in destroying the Republican party than they are in achieving conservative values.
If I recall, we lost most of the battles during the revolutionary war.
Still won.
If I lived in Mississippi I could not vote for the “animal lover” Cochran.
“If I recall, we lost most of the battles during the revolutionary war. Still won.”
We haven’t won a battle in decades, and I don’t see French or Spanish sails on the horizon. Conservatives have lost the culture war; now it is about preserving our way of life despite the larger culture (or more appropriately, cultural vacuum).
Same old crap. Fortunately a lot more conservatives are waking up to this little game that keeps liberals in office. It’s LIBERALS vs CONSERVATIVES. If you want to win the future, spend your time and money on conservatives, not liberals of any party.
Those of us who have been around the block more than once know that "later" never comes.
The alternative to not fighting is capitulation and submission...I’m not ready for that alternative.
Report from Charles Johnson indicates that Cochran will be filing a legal challenge in court today. Don’t we need to determine if laws were broken?
I've expressed this thought many times. I don't want a majority in the US Senate with the likes of McCain, Cochran, Murkowski, Ayotte, Flake, Collins etc etc setting the tone. They scare me.
We haven’t won a battle in “decades”? What is your definition of battle, because in the case of this article it was a single election. Conservatives have won many battles in the last 2 decades, in fact the desperation in this particular battle was gratifying, even though it was a loss.
LOL! that's the part that gets me, too. They want to act like this is a rare or new occurrence, but some of us have been watching Republicans crap on their base for decades now.
We shall DEFEAT Cockran in November, so that this STUNT is NEVER pulled on us again.
That is how to deal with it.
This author can say what he likes but I think any conservative who votes for Cochran in the general election is a fool. I’d be more than happy to lose the State to a “D” just to send this much needed lesson to the GOPe. Ditch the base and you lose.
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