Um.............Nope.
Funny, I thought there was a PRIMARY process up ahead.’
Did they change the rules recently?
this is a paulbot story. mittens, as bad as he was, was still an infinitely better choice than dr. nutz would have been.
I thought there was a thing called a "Primary election"..........
As much as the establishment hates conservatives, they still can only fight them so long.
No doubt they have... let the conniving begin...
Weasels to the left, weasels to the right..
Weasels in the closet..
RINO Season is OPEN.. come armed, locked and loaded..
cause if YOU don’t, the candidate WILL BE A WEASEL..
If they have a preference then we will know soon enough when they put their money behind that person, and then work together with the democrat opposition to destroy the challengers.
We who are conservative but not liberally Republican may not appreciate the power wielded by the RNC (or the DNC for that matter), but we need to work to build up a fraction to challenge within the two party system - much as Chicago has in the DNC, or Clinton-wing, or the Kerry fractions which make up the three competing DNC fractions.
The TEA fraction is in it's 10th year and by time it is 20-25 years old it will have ascended to the presidency. We must be patient and preserve.
THEY think so.
It is time for a new conservative party. If only Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Scott Walker, Tim Scott, Sarah Palin, and a few dozen other conservatives would break off and form a new party. If 70-100 GOP Congressmen joined them along with a dozen governors and hundreds of state and local elected officials. The new conservative party might not be competitive at the presidential level in 2016, but like the Republicans of the 1850’s could be competitive by 2020. Who knows, if enough elected officials defected and supported by the majority of the rank & file member as well as conservative independents, the new party could be competitive in 2016. I suspect the GOP, given that it is a mirror of the Democrat Party, would be inconsequential within 2 election cycles.
It is like pro wrestling.
Except that the pro wrestlers are more talented, in better shape, and way way more intelligent.
No fix, but the meat grinders are ready and active.
We need to let them run. They will rise or fall on their own positions and merit and character. Let it be a real competition this time without all the high pressure strategy phony baloney trying to muscle candidates out before voters have had a chance to hear them.
We also need a one day nationwide primary vote where every state has an equal say. I am sick of being robbed by the states that go before me. That or there needs to be a lottery each time for who goes first, so that it is not the same states having more pull than other states. Back when travel was by horse and communication was very slow traveling, the current system made some sense. Now it does not.
I believe the fix has been in for at least the past two Presidential elections.
Not if Jebbie, Etch A Sketch, Huckafeller, Fatso, and other libs are all running. Let’s do to them what Romney did to us.
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Lot of “rank and file” right here at good ol FR.
You are not conservatives.
You are party over principle hacks.
How's that working out for you?
This is exactly why I wanted the GOP to lose in November: because they will see the landslide victory
as proof that I'm not Democrat
is a winning strategy.
By the time my primary rolls around, the candidate has already been selected. I didn’t vote for McCain or Romney in the primary but that was simply a gesture of disdain since they had already clinched.
GONE hostility to average Republicans is nothing new. It has been going on for decades. This article could have been written 20 years ago.
They got Paulbot kooks elected to party positions. No improvment.
It could be the group that thought they were coronating the next Speaker.
I have decided to no longer hold my nose and vote straight GOP ticket. If it’s not someone I want on the ballot I will write in my choice.