[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

He is decrying how Brown won. From someone who never has.

Yeah, but you got to understand what these threads are really about.

They're about self-important people getting to pretend that they're the Real True Conservatives, while everyone else out there - you know, the people who realise that red-meat candidates can't win in every last district in the country - get to be looked down upon as dirty, stinking RINOs who just aren't pure enough for them.

Along with it, of course, comes a lot of dishonest twisting of the candidate in question's stated positions, a lot of chest-thumping and misrepresentation of what other FReepers have said, and a whole boatload of pretentiousness.

They're an opportunity for the Keyes people (or the Ron Paul people, or the Pat Buchanan people, or the Batboy people, or whatever) to prove their moral superiority to all the people who actually believe that winning elections, rather than whining like babies, is the way to move forward the conservative agenda over the long haul.

[dirtboy]

You nailed it.

[Carling]

They're an opportunity for the Keyes people (or the Ron Paul people, or the Pat Buchanan people, or the Batboy people, or whatever) to prove their moral superiority to all the people who actually believe that winning elections, rather than whining like babies, is the way to move forward the conservative agenda over the long haul.

I'm still waiting for somebody to make the case how electing Scott Brown, who voted to have the people of MA fund abortions in RomneyCare,and advocating his ascension up the GOP ladder, advances the "conservative agenda". I can see how it advances the "GOP agenda", but not the "conservative agenda". They are not one and the same, IMO.

[Matt Hatter]

Well said. And thank you.