“The GOP stuck us with Obama and the rats with their deliberate denigration of conservative candidates.”
Most Republican officeholders ARE conservative.
Obama and the Democrats got elected by millions of brainwashed sheep-dipped liberals. It was over a BILLION in liberal special interest group money, campaign contributions and other funding that made it hard to compete. Dont blame the GOP for the fact that the other side outplayed us all.
It’s up to candidates and campaigns to win races and its whining to try to put responsibility elsewhere, especially on party orgs, who can only do so much (and not much in 2008 because RNC etc was tapped out). Where were all the whiners when conservative Republican Musgrave was in her re-election race? Did they help her, or did they act like welfare cases, doing nothing but expecting underfunded NRCC to bail them out?
THE GOP IS *US*. WE ARE THE GOP. IF WE HELP OUT, THE GOP IS HELPING. IF WE WHO ARE CONSERVATIVES DONT HELP CONSERVATIVES, WHO THE HECK ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HELP THEM? Sorry for shouting, but lets get real - you could just have accurately written:
We conservative Republicans stuck us with Obama and the rats with their deliberate denigration of Republican candidates, and non-help to conservative Republicans.
I ought to know. I tried helping a conservative Republican statehouse candidate. Few volunteers, no money ... not much at all. Very little was done. A solid conservative wouldnt help and was barely willing to bother voting.
CONSERVATIVES DIDNT CARE ENOUGH TO STOP OBAMA.
“I now have a socialist (not to mention criminal) congressman because the GOP withdrew party money late in his campaign. They called him a lost cause and he ended up losing by a whole 2%. They were never happy with him anyway because he defeated one of their RINOs for the seat in the first place.”
Win it back in 2010. Are in Andy Harris’ old seat? It sounds like that one. we should encourage Andy Harris to run again. He will win in 2010.