But the real problem is the interface between the GOP National Committee, the State GOP committees and the MSM.
They really made it very difficult for conservatives to get traction while encouraging kooks like Ron Paul. They purposefully wore down Fred's and Duncan's campaigns, the rope a dope startegy that sucks money and resources out while making it easy for others.
And they held Fred in very long strategy talks which made Fred slow to enter the race.
Its all about the future. And the GOP has decided to embrace a future unacceptable to conservative voters.
In short, the Republican party has become the covert enemy of conservatives. But they can be covert no longer.
The jig is up. I do not want a RINO future for America.
I will fight the Republican's anyway I can on this.
Yesterday the GOP made millions of implacable enemies. And they shrug it off. Believe me, they won't be shrugging after 7th Nov. 2008. Some will shoot themselves, literally.
The Republican party doesn't have a hope of winning next November against the $50 million plus war chest the Dems have, who have a minimum 52% popular vote, without the conservative wing of the Republican party.
The GOP has made its own bed, and they will have to lie in it, alone.
I have better things to do, and better places to go , than to keep the GOP company on their RINO riddled, tick filled mattresses, filled with the matted hair of the shriven, liberal socialist poseurs, they call candidates.
And they held Fred in very long strategy talks which made Fred slow to enter the race.What are you talking about? Fred said back then -- and I supported him in his contention -- that he was on his "own timetable".
Fred turned out to be wrong about that. Accept it.
If Fred had played the game the way everybody else did -- on the new accelerated timetable -- I bet we would have seen a much different result in SC yesterday.
As much as I support Fred -- and I do, and I continue to -- I see it as a major strategy mistake in his campaign.
I read your quote to my Husband and he agrees as well! At first he thought it was a Duncan Hunter quote! (definately a compliment to you)
Pinging the "Dinosaur Media Deathwatch" principals....
Candor thinks the MSM had the power to smother the true conservatives who would've otherwise had millions scrambling to carry them to the altar. Erik thinks independents skewed the caucus. abb thinks the MSM is on the wane.
Sam thinks that the MSM, like the socialists, have more power in America than we're willing to admit.
But if true, what we are seeing in TexasMatty's bewilderment (shared by us all) is no different than soldiers refusing defeat and balking at the call to retreat from the shining city on the hill.
I try to fight this battle with friends and young kids. But Reaganism and Burkian conservatism does not sell outright these days.
We would have to do what Robt. E. Lee would not do---fight a guerilla political war for the next few decades, while we have a chance to bring the next generation around....change hearts and minds.