Democrat John Bel Edwards has defeated Republican Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
in the Louisiana governor’s race–a win that goes against the national trend towards Republican victories at the state level.
While Vitter’s loss is a setback for Republicans, and provides a boost to Democrats ahead of the 2016 elections, there is a silver lining as well: Edwards ran, and won, on a conservative message.
Nothing they say comes from the planet Earth.
It IS true, and it will be the best thing that can happen to the GOPe and the RNC and the USA, and that is that they will be DEAD to the Conservative electorate for many generations. The Republican Party needs to die, disintegrate, and cease to exist. The A-Holes McConnell and Boehner and all of their Cronies should be tarred and feathered, and burn in Hell forever. And it will happen, Cruz or Trump will be President, I hope.
I just sent this thread to my congresscritter, Michael McCaul.
“GOP leaders are instead trying to prevent THEIR PARTY from total collapse.”
Now there’s the problem, it’s not THEIR PARTY, it’s OUR PARTY. We just made a big mistake electing them to run it!
What is this cr*p about CRUZ destroying the GOP for a generation??? Such nonsense. The only people saying that are the GOP-E and Democrats (who all HOPE it’s true!). Cruz would rally the evangelical vote (like Reagan) and carry the conservative vote as well. I don’t think the Dems can get out the minority vote for Hillary or Bern like they did for Obama. I think Cruz can absolutely take the big prize, AND restore this nation.
At Free Republic, we are in a conservative echo chamber. It is possible that a non-establishment GOP candidate might not win and could cause a rejection of conservative Republicanism down ballot. In that case, the people will have rejected small, constitutional government. In which case, the Republic is likely doomed, because the citizens will have been found wanting.
But, it’s possible, too, that a constitutional conservative might rally the people to his cause, and sweep into the White House with a more conservative Congress ready to get to work, limiting government, restoring it to within its natural constitutional boundaries.
We cannot let the possibility of failure rob us of our nerve. We must grab at the possibility of success of a true conservative with a truly conservative agenda.
Cruz or lose. America.
“At some point, we have to deal with the fact that there are at least two candidates who could utterly destroy the Republican bench for a generation if they became the nominee,” said Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
Well, Josh, even if that were true - and I do NOT accept your premise - you can kinda thank your old boss for it.
The GOPe will never understand, or take seriously, the problem they have created for themselves, or how quickly it could be solved. Embrace the conservative principles you supposedly believe in, and the party will heal in record time. Continue to act like oligarchs interested only in your own survival, and you’ll continue to split the party. If we lose the general election to (shudder) Hillary it will be the fault of YOUR people, Josh, not the Tea Party’s, or anyone else who has had enough of the GOPe’s broken promises and phony “re-election conservatism.”
Elections are not the Superbowl. It does not help us to draft people from the other side and ask them to run wearing a “Republican” jersey. The win only counts if a real conservative scores the goal, not if a RINO gets elected and then makes the government behemoth even bigger.
Hell, there’s enough right here that seem to think either would be a disaster too.<p.Funny how they’re more worried about a Cruz or Trump than another Obama....
The only way this would destroy the Republican party is that the ones who have been responsible for its downfall refuse to admit it, refuse to completely overhaul the Republican Party so that it reflects the obvious will and desire of its constituents, and refuse to apologize profusely and often for trying to force us to be Dem Lites.
Destroy the GOPe forever. And ever, amen.
Defeat the GOPe and drive a wooden stake into its stinking carcass!
The GOP has already destroyed itself. The only thing that can happen from here is it gets rebuilt and functions properly.
true about trump, but Cruz would restore it - and have broad coat tails too, btw... I might even come back to the party (nah, never gonna happen)
This is barely in English. Oi.
They say that as if that would be a bad thing.