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What choice does the right have in 2016? (She's finally lost her mind)
The Washington Post's Right Turn Blog ^ | December 11, 2014 | Jennifer Rubin, Queen of the NeoCons

Posted on 12/11/2014 7:14:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The most conservative candidates are, with the exception of 1964, invariably the bridesmaid and never the bride in the GOP presidential primary. (In 1980, there were candidates such as Rep. Phil Crane of Illinois to Ronald Reagan’s right.) Part of the explanation is that the most conservative voters divide their support among candidates, leaving a path for a more moderate figure to coast to victory. And part of the explanation is that they tend to set upon candidates who self-destruct, are not qualified or are simply too extreme — and often all three. In 2016, how can they break this pattern?

It starts with the recognition that even within the GOP, the party needs someone who can pull in some less conservative voters. Even if the party registered thousands of new, very conservative voters, it would be unlikely to create a plurality big enough to nominate a candidate whose support comes solely from the right wing of the primary electorate. In other words, the party has to think strategically, not merely convince itself that the most conservative candidate in the field is the horse to bet on. That said, the right will want the reassurance that its candidate of choice does not morph into a dreaded moderate.

In the danger zone for self-destructing and lacking sufficient qualifications, it should not surprise readers of Right Turn, we put Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). Leaving ideology out of it, they are freshmen senators with little or no experience in executive leadership, have never run a national campaign and have annoyed large contingents in the GOP....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: huckabee; randpaul; rickperry; tedcruz
Phil Crane to the right of Ronald Reagan? Hahahahaha! What "national campaigns" had Barack Obama run before 2008? Or Abraham Lincoln in 1860? Or Dwight Eisenhower in 1952?
1 posted on 12/11/2014 7:14:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The most conservative candidates are, with the exception of 1964...

It's like Reagan never happened.

2 posted on 12/11/2014 7:21:22 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We have the choice of Ted Cruz.

There’s no reason why EVERY conservative shouldn’t get behind him early, and good reason why the should.


3 posted on 12/11/2014 7:23:41 PM PST by Maceman
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To: Maceman

Amen.


4 posted on 12/11/2014 7:26:14 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Maceman
Count me in to similarly Cruz into 2016.
5 posted on 12/11/2014 7:28:50 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CRUZ IS IT !

No more leftist RINOs and ringers.


6 posted on 12/11/2014 7:29:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubin is upset Steve King will have more say than she does.

90% of her posts are about Steve King’s immigration views and Rand Paul’s foreign policy views. The other 10% are about how great a president Rick Perry will be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/08/13/media-hypes-rep-steve-king-while-immigration-reform-advances/

http://www.silive.com/opinion/columns/index.ssf/2013/07/the_gop_crackpots_are_losing_c.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/08/04/pull-the-plug-on-those-phony-sunday-talk-shows/

Moving on to category two, the only purpose of having Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on to speak about immigration and impeachment is to generate headlines for the following day: “Republican congressman says ridiculous thing” or “Republicans support ridiculous thing.” The media and Democrats know that King has been repeatedly admonished by his own party and speaks for practically no one. Why not have on someone who does speak for the mainstream and really might give a sense of what is likely to happen?


7 posted on 12/11/2014 7:31:43 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Ron Johnson, David Vitter and Ted Cruz were governors those states would be in an identical position to executive masterstrokers Walker, Jindal and Perry.

Im sure Johnson, Vitter and Cruz know how to move a pen.

Only sensible thing Norquist has said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/13/1064417/-Grover-Norquist-on-the-GOP-candidates-All-we-need-is-someone-who-can-handle-a-pen


8 posted on 12/11/2014 7:34:00 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is the choice to stay home, or did they learn nothing from Romney?


9 posted on 12/11/2014 7:34:58 PM PST by glasseye
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To: Maceman

I know many so called conservatives who have that one issue that makes them reject a 100% conservative. The issue can be abortion, health care for family members, social security for a parent, medicare for parents, union bennies (firefighters and police) or help for the poor (some Catholics I know). Other than their important issue they are far right!


10 posted on 12/11/2014 7:37:51 PM PST by america-rules
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obviously another delusional pundit.

I stand with Ted


11 posted on 12/11/2014 7:42:25 PM PST by Nifster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

hang on, does this woman really think Dole, McCain and Romney were too extremely conservative or something?

She must be on drugs


12 posted on 12/11/2014 8:30:14 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Maceman

right on


13 posted on 12/11/2014 8:30:40 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well Jenny, since the Republicans haven’t run a Conservative since Reagan, I would advise that trying a Conservative might do the trick!


14 posted on 12/11/2014 9:02:40 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: america-rules

That doesn’t make them Conservative. It makes them idiots.


15 posted on 12/11/2014 9:05:07 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: GeronL

She is a drug..............Bean-O


16 posted on 12/11/2014 9:10:02 PM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

It’s a sick joke that Rubin gets to pose as a conservative voice at the Washington Post. She’s a smug leftist on immigration, and refuses to see that mass immigration (even the legal kind) is a Democrat-importing policy.


17 posted on 12/11/2014 9:18:14 PM PST by Aetius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As if running “moderates” like McCain and Romney has helped.

In 2008 and 2012, the GOP ran to the “center” and lost.

In 2010, they ran to the right and won BIG.

In 2014, they benefitted from the Democrats losing.


18 posted on 12/11/2014 10:00:08 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: america-rules

I don’t expect to agree with whoever the presidential candidate is 100% of the time but I’m so sick of watching the Boehners and McConnells of the world caving in and giving up without putting up a fight. I just want our presidential candidate to go after the Democrats. No more RINOS like Bob Dole, Jerry Ford, the Bush Dynasty, McVain and Romney in the top slot. We need fighters and people not afraid of the media or the Demcrats.


19 posted on 12/11/2014 10:08:19 PM PST by dowcaet
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