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.
LOL! No kidding. I held my nose for Romney too.
All the accusations being flung by these people are falling on deaf ears. They don't seem to understand the mess in Mississippi is different. NOW, its personal......and the GOPe are the ones who made it that way.
LOL I did neither.
Just who is it calling names ?...[you, “alinsky-ite]
I didn't 'call you a name', I said the debating tactics you were using were Alinsky's.
Can you not discern the difference?
BTW
And yet they continue to post their bilge here on FreeRepublic. I guess they're bankrolled enough by the GOPe to keep on going, hoping if they through enough of it on the wall, something will stick.
through = throw
No. It raises more questions about your motives.
I did not ever say I supported Cochran. You made that up. It is your myopia that prevents you from seeing anything but seething anger and keeps you attacking anyone and everyone that happens to pose a thought that is not exactly like yours.
Your situation is the classic “when your solution is a hammer, every problem is a nail” caused by your anger.
As I have said more than once, I think Cochran cheated and he has a chance at getting the victory taken away b/c he’s been caught. I have also said that McDaniel blew it by not aggressively going after black conservatives. I have also said that Cochran will win unless huge numbers of conservatives stay home. I have also said it would not surprise me if that happened. I have also said that it would be better if we were able to win the senate - irrespective of what happens in MS.
But I never said I supported Cochran. Again, that’s your problem.
LOL! No kidding. I guess the part they haven’t figured out is that some of us are already backing away from the stench.
Can you not discern the difference?
Yes, and now I'm saying you're posting like an idiot 8th grader.
I did not call you a name mind you - I just said you were using idiot 8th grader tactics.
You can tell the difference, can't you?
Hi B.A.,
I agree. $17 TRILLION in “public” debt is wayyyyy past “unsustainable”.
The problem is, if (when?) the American economy collapses, where do we go? I’m afraid that the coming new “Dark Age” will be global. How can I protect my family? Even a “little”?
And I think whatever time we have to fix the insanity in DC is fast running out. I’m afraid that, if the top banana gets our next Senate to allow him add a few more hard-left Justices to our Supreme Court, there will be no peaceful way to push out America’s “First President for Life”.
Some folks seem to think that “sending a message” to folks who won’t bother to read that message is a good strategy. I say that strategy didn’t work so well in Vietnam. Why should it work now?
There are times when anger is a perfectly rational, the only rational, response. This is one of them.
Listen to this phone call and tell me the GOPe is interested in slowing the march to insanity in DC:
I got this phone call. Certainly left me with the impression that Cochran will be working WITH Obama when he returns to DC. That hardly sounds like ‘slowing down the insanity’, does it?
A more concise description of the political views of the GOPe candidate can be found here:
Certainly I can, but I'm not the one doing the whining about it, am I?
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BTW - Since trolls hanging out on FR is such common knowledge, why did you feel it necessary to make the statement?
It would be like posting 'Water is wet' in the middle of a debate....it does nothing but distract and deflect from the subject at hand. Two other well-known debating tactics of Alinsky
So why post it in the first place, hmmmmm? Inquiring minds want to know.
Uh oh, I don’t think this one’s going to get his bonus check, Mama...
It’s because I wanted to point out that trolls on FR are actively encouraging this behavior.
I can’t believe I had to tell that.
If you don’t support Cochran, then what are you arguing for? The only thing I could ever give Cochran is my vote, and that he won’t get.
Sorry Cobol2Java, this anger is misdirected.
It should be directed elsewhere.
My goodness, you seem obsessed with anger. It’s not healthy.
I am not arguing for anything. I'm asserting that Cochran cheated and may lose his victory, I'm asserting that McDaniel blew it by not aggressively going for black conservatives, I'm asserting that Cochran will win unless huge numbers of conservatives stay home, I assert that this may happen, and I assert that it would be better if Rs take the senate, irrespective of MS.
I'm not arguing on behalf of or against anything.
Jeez!
I’m not angry, I’m astounded at the myopic, angry response to my assertions.
I’m sure DU has links to this conversation laughing at it!
I’m sorry you are doing so poorly at winning your arguments. It’s unfortunate. I do hope you are able to learn in this forum.
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