“...just like they did with so many upstarts in 2010.”
You know I’m tired of hearing this.
I’m tired of hearing it from the left, from the MSM and from the right.
OK, not every “tea party” candidate won in 2010 but I don’t think I’m wrong when I say MOST of them did win.
Oh my goodness, if I ever hear O’Donnell, Angle and the guy from Colorado’s name linked together like Tinkers, Ever, Chance again I’m going to scream. (Full disclosure, I gave Sharon Angle more money then I’ve ever given any other pol, and I pretty much killed myself campaigning for Anna Little in NJ, so my bona fides are good.)
What about Rubio and Rand Paul and hundreds (thousands?) of state legislators whose names will never be known?
We need to TAKE over the GOP. OK, so, we didn’t get it done this time in terms of the presidential nominee.
Let’s face a fact, please dear Lord let us face it together: this was not because of some nefarious doings on the part of what I see is to be called the GOP-E (which is good, btw). It is because the conservative “not-Romney” votes were split among too many candidates, because Rick Perry fell on his face, because Pawlenty folded like a cheap camera, because no really strong conservative ran, because no conservative who ran was really strong, and the number one reason Romney’s the nominee - he got the most votes.
I’m tired of all this obscurantism on our side. We’ve won many, we’ll lose a lot, many contests will end in a middling muddle.
WE’VE GOT TO KEEP FIGHTING!
That’s what the Left does, that’s what they’ve done for hundreds of years. From the French Revolutions to Elizabeth Warren, every day they fight what they see as the good fight.
Win or lose, every morning they wake up and ask “what can I do for THE CAUSE today?”
They don’t moan and groan that Clinton was a piker and a whore monger, that Edwards was a despicable man and a whore monger and that Obama, although not a whore monger, is a disaster; they just keep slogging on.
And via that slogging they have brought Western Civilization to the brink of disaster, time and time again. And again, now.
So, forget about O’Donnell and Angle and forget about Romney too.
To paraphrase Alinsky, find a fight that you’ll enjoy and FIGHT IT!
Quit carping.
The fate of the free world depends on it.
Your boy Romney is a minority candidate with tarnished credentials. Even as an elected Republican official he made campaign donations to Democrats. YOU CANNOT be a Republican and behave like that.
BZZT! Wrong.
Romney was an incredibly weak front-runner. He didn't win as much as he destroyed every other alternative who did not self-destruct first. And the GOP-E sat back and let him, even though that approach makes reconciliation almost impossible.
And I did not say the GOP-E sandbagged all Tea Party candidates, just the ones who took out their favored RINOs. They could have just said nothing, that would have been the class, party-unity thing to do. But they actively sandbagged those candidates. So guess what? They can stuff their calls for party unity. They have to figure out how to undo what Romney has brought forth, they let it happen, they have to clean up the mess. Simply waving the party unity flag ain't gonna work this time, because they trampled all over it last time.
BTW, I heard that Anna Little is running again in NJ-06. The district was made a few points more conservative and Republican, so maybe she can beat Pallone this time.