Posted on 12/06/2011 10:00:28 AM PST by Brookhaven
Those successes were nice, but the candidates in Nevada and Delaware were not the best selections. I am also still wondering how that “Mental Giant” in Washington got reelected.
GOP good old boy club tanks thanks to the Tea Party.The D.C. Disneyland game is about to end and none to soon.
No, the Tea Party has not been perfect. But, on balance the Tea Party has done more good than harm.
There are more Republicans in the Senate today than there would have been without the Tea Party, that’s the bottom line.
And, the senate is more conservative today than it would have been without the Tea Party. The GOP establishment sees that as a net negative, but I veiw it as a positive.
Too Big to Fail: Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Lost
As for Christine O'Donnel, I'll concede that Karl Rove was right here. But he was wrong about just about everything else.
In 20-20 hindsight, Christine O'Donnel wasn't a surprise. The majority of Delaware voters are abjectly stupid as well. They proved it with Joe Biden.
“but the candidates in Nevada and Delaware were not the best selections.”
They were light years ahead of what the dimoKKRATS put out. They not only had to fight the msm, dimoKKKRATS but the Republican establishment. That was to much of a head wind.
Nothing wrong with the candidates but the pubbies failed to really help them with money and people and Reid won by three-tenths of one per cent, and much fraud and corruption was used by dirty harry.
In Delaware, the pubbies were our own worst enemy.
Both of those races should have been ours in a cakewalk.
Go Tea Party!
Quality post. I’d also like Rove, et al to take credit for the mud-hole-stomping the GOP took in 2006, and for creating the electoral environment that made the election of Obama possible.
More to the point, I’m not interested in moral victories. A politician who will cross the aisle on core issues at the drop of a hat is functionally a dem, in my book.
I’ll take Christine O’Donnell over at least 60 of the present fools currently in Senate offices. She was unlikely to win in a Blue DE, but getting Mike Castle in there would have been worse than a Dem. He was a Dem, and would have voted to the left of the Maine sisters, Spector and McCain. He would have been a regular disaster for us on issue after issue.
However the RINO establishment routinely backstabs those conservative candidates and funds RINO liberal leftist shill candidates pretending to be Republicans that immediately join the DemoRats in implementing Marxist policy.
So the TEA Party and Conservatives have the option of ending the RINOpublican Party by withholding votes and donations plus third party candidates. Where's the surprise? It's not a bluff, so the establishment Republicans can choose their fate: opportunity under conservative leadership and candidates, or no longer useful idiocy under socialist DemoRat rule.
I just sent another GOPAC fundraiser letter back with the list of my direct contributions to conservative Republican candidates, and no money.
Interesting take.
The personhood initiatives I've seen have been poorly drafted and would probably create unintended consequences.
Sarah Palin has tarnished herself because she obviously is afraid to endorse someone, and was wishing a Conservative accepted by most would come out making it a safe endorsement without offending any of her supporters. She fell for the trap that Santorum is a wacko religious nut, Bachmann is the unintelligent woman who's just not smart enough for the Presidency(something they did with Palin herself), and Herman Cain was allowed to be destroyed by liberals who eventually made most believe the things they accused him of, even though there still hasn't been any proof of it. Not to mention it's not a political issue that will affect anyone, unlike the political policy will even if it was true. Palin should have endorsed one of them, but she won't endorse anyone unless it's a liberal like Gingrich now.
Palin probably didn't endorse Bachmann based on personal differences as well, and she was probably afraid she would look bad if some proof came out on Cain doing something he's been accused of after she endorsed him. The TEA party has had success in other elections, but it's the TEA parties support that have helped them, even though they are the most establishment career politicians around, which is why we have Romney and Gingrich at the top. The TEA party split, and a good portion went with everything the TEA parties I ever attended said they were against.
I hope Cain gets back in since his campaign is just suspended, and he still has more support then some of the candidates. His Brokenhearted, but not broken article he sent out after suspending his campaign shows why he should have had more of the support from Conservatives from day one. A newcomers the TEA party said it wanted with no loyalty, or concern with the establishment if it went against his Conservative policy on the issues he campaigned on. I hope he raises some money, and gets a better team together and gets back in the race once people see the crap they are stuck with now, and start to miss this guy who was destroyed with their compliance by liberals, and the establishment who will do everything to stop a Republican without the ties to them they require, who they have significant influence, and control over who represent nothing Conservative.
http://www.hermancain.com/news/brokenhearted_but_not_broken1
Best for what? Are you saying that Mike Castle was "better" than O'Donnel? How? He may have won, but so what?
What is this all about? Is it about "Yea Team?" An "R" is better than a "D" even if the "R" would vote the same as the "D"? Really? Why? So that the "R"s have a higher score no matter what they stand for?
Well, I don't believe it. It seems to me that "party above all" is not the solution, it's what got us here.
For me, it's about principal. If a candidate opposes my views, I will oppose them, at least in a primary, even if I vote for them in the general and even if my candidate looses in the general because it is not about party.
“...February 7, 2011, 6:28 pm MT
Dick Wadhams drops out of state GOP chairmans race”
The Tea Party wasn’t the problem.
Expect to do much better next year.
I reject this “us or them” attitude in the article (and in the 2010 elections).
I hope this time RINOs and Tea Party combine their strengths.
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