Cruz: If We Nominate Another Dole, McCain or Romney "Millions Of People Will Stay Home"

Real Clear Politics ^ | October 30 2014 | RealClearPolitics

[Cymbaline]

If you stay home on election day, you are directly responsible for whichever Democrat is elected.

[arthurus]

Republicans nominate Party Stalwarts who don't want to be President and who the Party doesn't want want to be President. If the Conservatives left and started another party they could then do poorly in their first election and the Democrats might sweep. They would probably win big in their second election and continue to win thereafter so long as their members did not get co-opted into the Washington culture which is what happens to most TeaParty election winners.It is pretty much unavoidable now. The political industrial alliance makes them know immediately upon arrival in Washington that they can assure their lifetime affluence by going along, even if they lose their very next election. If they don't cooperate their wealth will be limited to their own salary and investment and they will face withering opposition at every turn. It is easier to play golf.

The only possible profitable avenue is the State Legislatures. Fill them with Conservatives -preferably that new third party but Republicans would do at that level. Then do an Article 5 convention and at least reinstate the 17th Amendment. That amendment made relentless and inevitable the path to centralization and the Total State. Undo the 17th and we might get the Constitution back. It would return representation of the states as States in the Federal government and the States could and would then protect their own interests as they cannot now.

[arthurus]

The Candidate will be Romney or Bush. The nation will lose, even should the Candidate win. The Candidate will strive to lose, preferably in a squeaker.
George Bush won in spite of himself and graciously accepted the job. He didn't get into it until 9-11 after which he thought he could finish what GHWB started in Iraq.

[sjmjax]

...They are very comfortable being a minority and having no authority...

I've been saying the same basic thing for ages. We once gave the GOPe control of the House, the Senate, the Presidency and a majority on the Supreme Court.

They threw it away as fast as they could as if it were poison.

They did absolutely nothing with the awesome power givne to them. They actually seem to resent voters for putting them in that position.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yep. He just won my vote by being willing to call them all out by name.

[CPT Clay]

He speaks the truth.

[ex91B10]

He forgot “Bush”.

[SoConPubbie]

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[zeugma]

Open primaries are also a major factor.

[AlaskaErik]

Or they’ll vote third party, like I did.

[GeronL]

Cruz is correct of course

[GeronL]

Only the candidates and party are responsible, it is their job to attract votes. Voters do not owe their votes to anyone, it is not our duty to vote for bad candidates.

Want those votes? give them something to vote for.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Cruz is right, but he is missing a critical point.

The Republican establishment is so committed to their own version (multinational corporate) of the liberal agenda, that even if through some miracle a conservative is nominated as a candidate for POTUS, *they* will support Hillary before they support that conservative.

These are the same kind of Republicans who bitterly hated President Reagan, and did what they could to undermine him, until he spent money like a liberal Democrat and then some, which their corporate cronies liked.

But they just “tolerated” him. They never did embrace him.

They collectively gave off a huge sigh of relief when he was replaced by George H.W. Bush. Him they liked. And they liked W. Bush for the same reason. And that is why in the future, they are insisting on Jeb Bush, or if he is just so utterly loathsome to the rank and file, Mitt Romney again.

As a side note, they also bitterly hated Newt Gingrich and his Contract With America. And many of them in the senate refused to sign on, because it was “a conservative thing”, and they hate conservatism and conservatives.

[Beagle8U]

State parties control the primaries, we have to pressure them for closed primaries.

[married21]

Me too.

[SoConPubbie]

If you stay home on election day, you are directly responsible for whichever Democrat is elected.

B.S.!

You want my vote, then you'd better represent my values, morals, and principles, otherwise, YOU CAN JUST GO POUND SAND!

[Blue Collar Christian]

The MSM works hard to convince Low Info Republicans whom they should nominate for office, especially President.

What’s the mantra repeated by every other movement about their particular cause? “Education is the key”?

[duffee]

Normally Senator cochran in Mississippi would normally be polling at 60% or 60 plus in a general election. I have read that in gop internal polls he’s at 45%. Why or they so stupid that they don’t understand that yuo take gop contributors contribution and the spend against their candidate in the primary on radio ads aimed at democrats calling cochran’s opponet and his supporters racist and bigots and people who have no compassion and would starve the poor and needy. Many of those in the 45% are holding their nose to vote to keep control of the Senate but can’t wait to get a crack at wicker, cochran’s cohort in the Senate, in the 2018 primary.

[goodnesswins]

I won’t stay home....in the Primary and the general I will write in Cruz

[duffee]

Senator Cruz stands taller every day.