That said, my own view is that any Republican candidate is wasting his time -- and worse, doing a disservice to the party -- if he expends much effort attacking his rivals. We need to concentrate our fire on the real enemy, and the real enemy is not another Republican who scores 2.54% to my left on the ideological purity meter, not when the Democrats are taking the country down for the count. The base will rally to whichever reasonably conservative candidate does the best job of (1) flaying the left; (2) presenting a credible conservative agenda; and (3) keeping his nose clean.
Unlike four years ago, when many of our top prospects chose not to run, we have an abundance of talent coming forward. The media will be on its usual preemptive search and destroy missions, and I am sure we are about to find out the Marco Rubio jaywalked in 1993, that Ted Cruz told an off color joke in college, that Scott Walker was once in the same county as someone who had a confederate flag on his pickup, and that Jeb Bush is related to the Georges. (And we will be told that Hillary therefore looks good in comparison.) We do not beat this game by beating up on each other. We beat it by staying positive, and staying on the attack against the real opponent.
So far Walker has RESPONDED to candidates Cruz and Rubio (who feel they must make the case against Walker because Walker has consistently remained near or at the top of polls, even though he isn’t a declared candidate).
The real opponent is the GOPe. We cannot have a conservative country until the country has a conservative party.
The GOPe is intent on foisting upon us a moderate “electable” candidate (Bush, or standby candidates Rubio and Walker). The GOPe had its way last time with Romney and look what happened.
It is up to True Conservatives to do what they can to prevent the GOPe to sabotaging our candidates yet again. If that means pointing out GOPe candidate flaws, then so be it.