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.
That’s already started, here on FR.
To Hell with Thad Cochran and his socialist cronies in the GOP leadership! He won the primary runoff by appealing to the racism and greed of the urban Parasite Class ... let the urban Parasite Class vote for him. Or not. He does not represent the Productive Class or the Protective Class. He's worse than a democrat.
Thad Cochran delenda est.
It’s all they have left, once they know they’ve lost the argument.
I’ve already been called a Klukker for thinking $17T in debt was unsustainable.
I await their further insults...
Yea, remember the thread from the other night, when a couple of Cochran shills characterised our reaction as “hurt feelings”? They really do see this as a football game, only both sides play for the same team, just different jerseys.
Yes same old crap. It’s not Republican vs Democrat, it is the aristocracy vs us. Wake up
My grandmother was involved in the civil rights movement. No way I’m voting for someone who calls me a Klukker for thinking $17T in debt is unsustainable.
Win influence.
The reason why conservatives don’t win is because instead of uniting like the left, they divide. Don’t blame the left, blame yourself
Or someone who demonises hos own purported side (conservatives) for obstructing the enemy’s agenda. That’s what an opposition party is supposed to do, but what would Cochran and his ilk know about obsteucting the left’s agenda? And these are the people we simply “must” have take the Senate? So they can do just what the rats would do, and use our support to do it?
Your mypopia inhibits you.
There is no acceptance of rule breaking. There is only the statement that it is childish and stupid to hurt ourselves badly only to hurt an opponent slightly if at all. Yes, that’s a fundamental principle off political success.
Cochran will retire in a few years. He isn’t even aware of the world he’s senile. It’s the machine in MS that is as bad as the machine in Chicago we need to hurt.
Considering the school of thought that is common here - that the GOPE is the same as the Dems - how does electing Dems hurt the GOPE? It doesn’t. It hurts us.
Precisely.
And calling me ‘childish, illiterate, ignorant and inbred’ (read some of the posters here and elsewhere) isn’t going to get me to pull the lever in November.
Sorry.
LOL I’m not promoting republicans. Need I remind you of what happened when republicans had both houses and the executive?
I would not be surprised a bit if Cochran loses in November [although I hope there is a re-do in MS that elects McDaniel.] But I will be disappointed if “R” does not take the senate and Harry Reid can still protect 0bama.
Even if the majority is tenuous in number and purity, it’s better than no majority. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee’s strength would be multiplied. That’s what I want. Dunno about you.....
Influence to do what? Remember the last government shutdown, when out of all those Republicans, only Ted Cruz and a couple of others tried to use our leverage to block more spending? Who did the rest of the Republicans berate? McCain called him and the TP “wacko bords”. The Congressional GOP went after Cruz with an energy which they never exert in opposing Obama.
They also support amnesty.
Influence to do what?
He won by cheating.
Everyone has their line in the sand, or at least they should, IMO. I respect people for that.
What some folks don't get though is that the GOPe have been moving that line for decades.
"No! The 'conservative' line is here....no wait, it's here. Just a little further....."
Etc, etc, etc.
I guess you just have to stick around long enough to notice it.
“We can get even with the GOP establishment later; we need to beat the Democrats first.”
Nope, sorry, we need to destroy the barbarians within the walls before we have a chance to defeat the ones at the gates.
Destroy the current gop - it is only taking nutrients and sunshine that is needed by a true conservative party.
The gop has had its chances, provided by conservative voters holding their noses. With those chances, the gop has done.....(crickets).....that’s right, nothing, zip, nada.
The gop establishment is holding back the conservative movement, and worse, they pretend to be conservative while eagerly jumping into the back seat of every liberal jalopy and hoisting their skirts.
Get rid of the faithless whores, and build a conservative party. I’ve brought my last party slut home to meet Mom and Dad.
Vote for the gop establishment? HA! How many times will you forgive your adulterous wife? I’ve done so at least every other year since Reagan’s last term. I’ve decided she is just a round-heeled tramp who will always let any liberal wanker have his way with her. She’s not going to change. I’d rather have an empty bed than to smell the musk of randy dems on her every night!
The likes of Cochran won’t multiply Cruz’s and Lee’s strength. Remember the last government shutdown, when McCain publicly called Cruz and TP wacko birds? This is the same man who said that Hussein would make a good president.
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