It is a lost, but could a credible tea-party candidate have come so close to winning just a few years ago?
IMO, it’s a win because we are changing mindsets. It may take another election, or two, to start electing candidates, but we are moving forward.
:It is a loss, but could a credible tea-party candidate have come so close to winning just a few years ago?”
NO.
The difference between Conservatives and Democrats is that when THEY loose, its ALWAYS the “dirty politics” of the other side, the lack of adequate funds, the fact that the public didn’t get the message, etc., etc.
The fact is we ALMOST won and the numbers WERE trending in Cuccinelli’s direction, even in a state with the problem of DC workers and northern liberal transplants. If the election would have been held next week, McAuliff would have LOST. And that damn bastard and his policies and health plan was the reason.
SOOOOO, take page from the RATS for a change. Take your tails out from between your legs and stop cowering and pandering to RINO philosophies. STOP blaming our POLICIES when we loose. WE ARE RIGHT and they are WRONG. We WILL win and they WILL loose NEST TIME.
I agree with you and the article. Cooch damn near pulled this off with the deck horribly stacked against him by (1) outside Dem money, (2) a third-party plant, and (iii) no support whatsoever from GOP-e. Many people here in VA thought it was going to be a loss of historic proportions. Also, most of the Republicans in hotly contested delegate races won.
Until we come up with a way to counter the impact of the pathetically selfish (pro-abortion women) and the terminally stupid, we cannot win ...
You will never change the minds of those who are so morally bankrupt that they could murder their own child - they (and their “vaginas”)are owned by the devil - and thus they are a lost cause. Eventually they will die off, the pathetic consequence of a self-imposed “contraceptive” death sentence. Good riddance to them. The important task is to prevent them from corrupting the good seed of others’ children - the one’s they were not able to have butchered.
Then you have the entitlement class - also equally morally bankrupt and beyond reform - they are the terminally stupid, because while they decry “racism,” yet they are quite comfortable living their miserable existence beneath the government’s yoke. The irony is that the black slave of the old South was morally superior, self-sufficient and dedicated to family - and the caliber of his character was light years beyond any of the so-called “African American” bootlickers of “massah fedgov” that presently permeate our society today. These reprobates are true slaves; but they are too deaf, dumb and blind to realize the shackles bound upon them more tightly than any their ancestors ever suffered. Of course, this class of losers also includes non-blacks who happily enjoy their existence on the same government plantation, and do all they can to make certain no soul ever leaves.
“IMO, it’s a win because we are changing mindsets. It may take another election, or two, to start electing candidates, but we are moving forward.” UNTILL AND UNLESS THE LEFT OF BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES AS WELL AS ALL “PRO-AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT REPUBLICANS” OFFICIALLY MAKE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAPPEN. Such a move would make U.S. conservatism become a profound political minority for hundreds of years, if not for always.