A good post and I mostly agreed with you up until the last line:
“Either way, we win, they lose..”
The problem is, it isn’t going to be “either way we win.”
What a lot of folks on the right wing in general and FR in particular are ignoring or missing is the terrible results for us on the ‘rat side of the fence in NH. It’s obvious that piaps will not be the rat nominee, and as such our side isn’t going to have an easy candidate to defeat. If piaps were to be the ‘rat nominee, I believe that Donald Trump would easily win, and Ted Cruz could probably win. With Bernie or another substitute “populist”like fauxahontas, Trump will have a challenge and Cruz would almost certainly lose the general.
What FReepers tend to forget is that our forum here is in no way reflective of the views of the country as a whole. If it were, we wouldn’t be discussing Trump versus Cruz, we would be discussing Vice President Palin’s campaign for President. Bernie is no joke. He is very popular amongst the 47% of the population that willard infamously identified, and his supporters will give it their all to get him elected. Any rat candidate starts with a fairly large electoral vote advantage, and Bernie will have a much easier time of unifying the left than either Cruz or Trump will on the right.
So given that this is going to be a tough slog, who do you pick? The candidate with imagination and the ability to appeal to voters outside the traditional right wing circles, or do you pick the one that is most consistently appealing to that small portion of the populace who are full bore conservative?
The choice is easy. Unless you want to feel the bern, you pick the candidate who might not meet the rigid standards of the People’s Temple of Conservative Purity, but who has a fair chance of delivering something that looks like conservatism.
The choice is easy. Unless you want to feel the bern, you pick the candidate who might not meet the rigid standards of the People's Temple of Conservative Purity, but who has a fair chance of delivering something that looks like conservatism.
Well said.