Posted on 05/12/2010 4:27:09 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
“There’s something happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear …”
— Stephen Stills, 1967
You see Utah’s Bob Bennett, who had a few moments of apostasy in the congregation’s eyes and dared to bow at the altar of bipartisanship, and he is brutally excommunicated.
You see Arizona’s John McCain, who couldn’t please the faithful as a presidential nominee and now is campaigning as a Joe Arpaio disciple, and he may be the next to be expelled from the Church of the Conservatives.
And, closer to home, you see Sue Lowden and Brian Sandoval, who are desperately trying to preach the right gospel and make the parishioners sing along, and yet they are getting crushed in straw poll after straw poll.
For what it’s worth, the moderate-cleansing in the Republican Party in these days of tea and poses could pay off in the short run for the candidates who can deliver the best conservative sermons and fool some of the small electoral universe on June 8. But four weeks before voters who don’t cast ballots early go to the polls, you can almost smell it in the air in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial primaries — the scent of uncertainty, even of fear.
They’ll complain about the Tea Party, then fold like cheap suits on the confirmation of Kagan. The RINO’s may be incapable of learning.
But at least we got the lesser of two evils, right?
I couldn’t agree more.
And we got exactly what we here all told you "Be Democrat Lite" squishy RINOS types we would get. A major league electoral butt kicking at the polls.
Time for the GOP "Moderates" to man up and admit they got it wholly wrong. We tried it your people way in 2008, and your dogma massive failed. As we told you when you insisted on backing McCain, in a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat lite GOP candidate, the people will pick the Democrat.
Reagan said it best. Offer the voters a choice, not an echo if you want to win.
PS Just skimming this argument, it seems to assume that having the two parties exist and work together (”bipartisanship”) is the end goal, the reason for the system to exist. No, in fact the purpose and goal is for THE PEOPLE to express their desires through the ballot box, and send the representatives they want to Washington and their state houses.
Then again, when used by much of the media class, “bipartisanship” means Republicans voting for Democrat legislation.
“Bipartisanship” is shorthand for the process whereby Republicans in Congress cross the aisle to support the liberal-Marxist agenda. When these quislings are called out or voted out by principled conservatives the liberal-Marxist media always scream “foul!”
That's what you were looking for, I believe.
And you are happy that we have socialized medicine, higher taxes, commies in the WH?
Which is the lesser of 2 evils??
Not doubting you— I missed that. Have you a link?
Oh man, if you think that Bush was the solution to our national problems I have a couple of sections in the Afghan desert to sell you. Good cattle country.
Never ever forget the financial mess we are in is as much the fault of overreaching neocons as it is the socialists.
We have had two parties who believe in squandering the wealth of this country to achieve diverse ideological ends, one socialist for people, one socialists for bankers and the power elite. Neither of them have a goddamned thing to do with conservatism.
It seems our choice is often the “evil of two lessers”. One way to improve that would be to quit letting Dems vote in GOP primaries. I am convinced open primaries gave us candidate McCain.
Exactly. The choice is spending money on Democratic pork and overrreaching or Republican pork and overreaching.
You missed my point by a mile. Is it beyond your capacity to understand the broader point?
I fight back probably more than anyone you know, 24/7, everywhere, all the time, friend.
Therefore I want to be sure we sure we employ the most failsafe strategy possible to achieve our goal in getting conservatives back in power. It requires strategic thinking and wililness (meaning, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile).
I’m all for a fierce primary battele to smoke out the lesser candidates ( less conservative) but we must be sure not to injure ourselves going into the general when we need to be unified as never before.
Or, the RINOS could change the way they vote, and we would win...
These liberals are crazy if they think people are going to buy this crasp/ Losing a primary is a purge? oh please.
how does that agree with the article?
We weren't given a great choice in the primaries. ( I voted for Fred Thompson- a lot of good that did me)But I knew that Obama was dangerous and I would vote from McCain again if I thought we could keep that socialist sonofabitch out of the WH.
You did exactly what you are bitching about. You chose the RINO over the Socialist.
Do you realize that you're a hypocrite?
Look at the country. How have RINO’s, Rockefeller liberal Republicans, fake numbers gaming American Conservative Union conservatives, compassionate conservatives worked out for you? Eh?
Christ of Florida, Jefferies of Vermont, and Specter. All RINO’s, all left the GOP. So what wing, who are ‘splitting’ the party?
I agree 110%. The 'rats knew he wasn't popular with conservatives. They knew that we were still pissed about amnesty. They knew that many would soon as rip out their own toenails than to vote McCain. I can only guess this was payback for Dukakis in '88.
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