It doesn’t matter who is running for the Republicans, there are just enough purists on the conservative side who won’t vote at all because no one is conservative enough, and refuse to choose the lesser of two evils. So they’re willing to let a flaming liberal win the election instead.
Yep. I am. I say push it all over the cliff now while we can still count on a majority in the Army and Marines.
Flaming liberals include Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Chris Christie.
An overabundance of purity is hardly the country's problem.
Any more than an overabundance of purity is a problem in a barnyard full of pigs after six inches of rain.
Reagan won in two landslide elections. Republicans haven't run a conservative since, and haven't had a landslide win since. GHWB squeaked through once (on Reagan's coattails), and lost the second time. Dole lost against what was, at the time, the most corrupt regime in US history. GWB squeaked through twice. McCain lost in a landslide by allowing his staff (borrowed from Romney) attack his conservative running mate. Romney lost in a landslide against what was already proven to be the absolutely most corrupt, anti-American, pro-muslim, evil administration in US history.
More people voted for Romney in 2012 than had voted for McCain in 2008, and he still lost. You cannot blame that on conservatives sitting out the election. You can blame it on many swing voters seeing Romney as Obama-Lite, and sticking with the correctly-labeled liberal.
When Republicans run a conservative, Republicans win.
Jeb Bush is not a conservative. Romney is not a conservative. Christie is not a conservative.
Republicans did the exact same thing against FDR, and lost four times. This recent Cromnibus Bill demonstrates that the GOP-e has learned nothing.
That ain't about purity, that's about friggin liberal.
/johnny
It’s about time those conservative purists (patriots) stand up to both party’s and save The Republic.