Posted on 10/31/2014 1:03:52 AM PDT by sr4402
"We need to learn from history; we need to look to history, what works and what doesn't. One thing is clear: If Republicans run another candidate in the mold of a Bob Dole or a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, let me be clear, all three of those are good honest men, decent men, they are patriots, but if we run another candidate in the mold of a Bob Dole or a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, we will end up with the same result, which is millions of people will stay home on Election Day."
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If you stay home on election day, you are directly responsible for whichever Democrat is elected.
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.
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.
Yep. He just won my vote by being willing to call them all out by name.
He speaks the truth.
He forgot “Bush”.
Open primaries are also a major factor.
Or they’ll vote third party, like I did.
Cruz is correct of course
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.
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.
State parties control the primaries, we have to pressure them for closed primaries.
Me too.
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”?
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.
I won’t stay home....in the Primary and the general I will write in Cruz
Senator Cruz stands taller every day.
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