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.
'This behavior'? As in not agreeing with you?
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I can’t believe I had to tell that.
Smarmy remarks in order to make it appear as if I were some kind of simpleton really isn't helping your cause.
“How many times have we heard THAT before?”
We hear it every single time. It’s how the GOPe stays in power.
What argument am I engaged in Cobol2java? What is my position in said argument.
crickets....
See this started when someone accidentally posted to me. I'm not arguing anything. See multiple posts if you care to be shown.
So if you can tell me what I'm arguing, I'll reply. But I am not. You could learn by admitting I'm the wrong poster or even apologizing.
“Which of these three is unlike the others? “
I’ll select amnesty-for-illegals Rand Paul for the win...
You _are_ posting like a simpleton. Sorry, you are.
That said, “this behavior” is trolling behavior. You’re anxious to prove something - to get back at someone for something. But it won’t help you to call me names MamaTexan. It will only make it worse.
I’m sorry.
The GOPe is rounding up their stooges so that they can stay in power.
I’d be careful if I were you. Calling people names, as you have done a couple of times here, can earn you a time out from FreeRepublic.
Give that man a Big Ceeegar!
Cochran is “bilge-slime”.
It would not surprise me if we learned that Cochran himself was behind his wife’s photo-shoot. But it would also not surprise me if the Dems broadcast those disgusting robo-calls as a dis-information campaign. We all know that Dems cheat and that cheating is the only way Dems can “elect” a senator from MS.
Unfortunately, unless McDaniel wins the recount, Cochran is OUR “bilge-slime”.
So, if I were a Mississippi Republican, I would vote for Cochran over the Democrat. Then I would seek to “recall” Cochran so that a less greedy and corrupt Senator could be appointed by the Governor.
I might also wish and hope that Cochran meets the “grim reaper” sooner rather than later.
And I would work to replace the folks who now run the GOP in MS. And DC.
I hope you notice that I am NOT telling you what to do.
LOL! What you're calling 'trolling behavior' most people would call just failing to allow you to dissuade them for taking a PRINCIPALED position.
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You’re anxious to prove something - to get back at someone for something.
Projection. I'm simply refusing to continue to be used for cannon fodder by someone who is supposed to be on my side. That's neither 'proving' or 'getting back' at anyone. It's just a flat refusal to participate in the manner THEY dictate.
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But it won’t help you to call me names MamaTexan.
Again, a false assertion. I never called you a name. Why to you continue to post untruths?
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It will only make it worse.
LOL! Make what worse? You do realize posting vague, menacing sounding generalities do nothing to prove one's point, right?
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I’m sorry
Is that an expression of sympathy (for WHAT, I would have no idea)
Or are we switching the subject to character references now?
If the MSGOP wanted me to vote for their candidate they should have picked one I could vote for.
They didn’t.
I can’t vote for a man who lives in open adultery with another woman.
I’m not alone in this very socially conservative state.
MSGOP knew about his living arrangements long before the primary was in season.
Childers knows about those living arrangements too.
I can only assume the MSGOP picked Cochran as their candidate, knowing he was living thusly, in order to give the election to Childers.
I’m able to come to no other conclusion.
Very clearly expressed. Thank you. So be it.
Still, I wonder what additional damage Banana’s judges will do to traditional marriage and traditional religion and traditional public education and traditional property rights etc. — all in the cause of promoting “re-distribution”.
But it was you and Mama who said that isn’t calling names. It’s just characterizing your stategy. According to you and Mama.
I was “posting like Alinsky” but that wasn’t name calling... so what gives? Can dish it out but can’t take it?
That was predictable. No worries though - I don’t find your discussion worthwhile. You won’t hear from me again.
I haven’t seen any difference in ‘Banana’ judges than the other sort when it comes those sorts of judgements.
IIRC the judge that threw out California’s gay marriage vote was a Bush appointee.
Takes all kinds on FreeRepublic, I guess...
I guess, but you'd think they would at least have enough respect to allow someone to stand by their convictions instead of trying to bully them into falling in behind the GOP bandwagon.
Alas, that would require something that has sadly withered away from today's trendy, progressive GOP: Honor.
Would you care to give the rationale behind pinging me to this post when the issue was with someone else?
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That was predictable.
So is your childish rant as well as your feigned pomposity 'I don’t find your discussion worthwhile' as you take your leave.
Some folks might even believe you went out on top without realizing it was only because you didn't bother waiting around for the answer.
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Courtesy PING - COBOL2Java
I believe you've summed it up into a simple, single word. :-)
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