We have to start demanding proof that a conservative candidate is not just carrying establishment water— e.g.-the following proclamation:
- “In that I can't win this state, and in that I don't want to dilute the conservative vote to allow a GOP establishment candidate to gain the delegates— I'm outta here- and will fight in the next state. “
Anyone who doesn't so pledge is a conservative quisling.
“Look guys, we know what the Republican Rove-ian Establishment is doing since 2008”
2008? All of my life. They dropped the ball with Goldwater and Reagan, and have otherwise strangled all conservative candidacies in the crib. I think the seeds of decay can be seen as early as Theodore Roosevelt. The GOP is not a conservative party. It is simply a more subtle ‘progressive’ party.
The only two who didn’t renege on the debate w/Trump as the moderator where Newt and Santorum. That sets those two apart already. The others showed they can’t handle debating except with what they feel comfortable with. Not rocket science to figure out why.
iowamark can speak for himself, but still not buying your argument. Funny how we all loved Rove in 2000-04 and now he is the GOP boogey man. If thats the case than GW was the establishment choice. I could buy that considering what he did to us all in his second term. At the end of the day, we got screwed again with our choices.