Four years ago, some here warned about playing games with candidates. Those games resulted in THE most liberal ‘Republican” in the history of the GOP getting nominated. That is a fact. That man lost and drove the party hard left.
The day after the great fail, I had a conversation with another Freeper that in the 16 cycle, so called ‘Conservatives’ would shun the most conservative guy running and choose instead, someone else, all while screaming what a conservative thing it was to do. That happened exactly as predicted.
People did not listen then and they will not now. The result will again be the most conservative person NOT getting the nod and lots of ‘conservatives’ upset with the result when the words they hear do not equal the actions they see.
Agreed. The simple fact remains that we can’t call ourselves conservatives if we’re going to pay lip service to principle for three years and abandon it in the fourth for whatever shiny, loud thing pops up.
We’ve hoped and prayed for a solid Constitutional conservative. Remember how excited the forum was for so long, anticipating Cruz would run for president? Well, it happened. And some of us promptly threw him aside for a liberal celebrity.
If we don’t wake up, we will have a disaster on our hands, and we will deserve everything we get.
“Four years ago, some here warned about playing games with candidates. Those games resulted in THE most liberal ‘Republican†in the history of the GOP getting nominated. That is a fact. That man lost and drove the party hard left.”
And we have not recovered.