[EternalVigilance]

You are in a gunfight with a foul and vicious opponent. You have one gun, and one bullet. Instead of aiming at your opponent, you raise the barrel skyward, pull the trigger and scream YEEEHAAAAH!! with a mighty report and smoke. Your opponent didn't suffer a scratch, and you wasted the only bullet you had, making no difference at all. But you can smugly think "THERE!! I showed 'em!!"

And by the way: Don't think we haven't noticed that most of the bullets of the Romney Republican establishment are aimed at conservatives, not at Democrats.

It's no coincidence that Mitt Romney himself was in the House chamber grinning from ear to ear when that particular love fest was taking place.

[mkjessup]

The Defenders of the Conservative Faith can continue this retrospective navel gazing forever and ever, however as I stated several posts ago, the past is past, and the sadistic second guessing and chest beating engaged in by the purists among us accomplishes nothing, it’s like a forensic review of the last Super Bowl, it doesn’t matter who threw what pass, who fumbled the football or missed that kick, it doesn’t change who won or who lost. Fans of the winning team cheered, the rest of the crowd, not so much. It’s done.

It is not 2012, it is now 2016. The GOPe has been exposed for what it is, likewise for their liberal handmaidens in the MSM, the anointed establishment candidates are failing to gain traction, and the outsiders (most of them conservative) are gaining support with each passing day, despite the efforts of the RINO Axis of Oafs to bring them down. Jeb’s campaign is all but done, and Romney isn’t about to enter this contest.

I’m all in for either Trump-Cruz or Cruz-Trump, how about you?