Yes, and everyone who can’t count is thumping their chests about winning the House and all of those two-year terms. You know, those two-year terms that will trend back to the Democrats in many cases because it’s no longer a wave election.
Meanwhile, we lost winnable SIX-YEAR Senate seat after winnable SIX-YEAR Senate seat.
I’m done. I don’t care if I’m the only person FR who changes, but I’m done with the 100% purity crap. No more. I’m going with the Buckley rule, period. If that means I have to actively work against a Ken Buck in the primary, so be it.
“Meanwhile, we lost winnable SIX-YEAR Senate seat after winnable SIX-YEAR Senate seat.
I’m done. I don’t care if I’m the only person FR who changes, but I’m done with the 100% purity crap. No more. I’m going with the Buckley rule, period. If that means I have to actively work against a Ken Buck in the primary, so be it.”
I agree with that too....Lets keep it mind come the presidential primaries.
Sarah Palin is a great gal and conservative...But she has no shot,none,zero,nada as the nominee to win the presidency.
“I’m done. I don’t care if I’m the only person FR who changes, but I’m done with the 100% purity crap. No more. I’m going with the Buckley rule, period. If that means I have to actively work against a Ken Buck in the primary, so be it”
Glad to see you’ve finally grown up, so welcome to adult land! I’ve written repeatedly about the importance of electability, and not just being “conservative”. I was just commenting to my wife that the naive and starry eyed liberals get bad candidates like Obama who get elected, but the naive starry eyed Tea Partiers get bad candidates who don’t get elected.
Conservatives who have done well like Scott Brown, Marco Rubio, and my own newly elected Cory Gardner here in CO-4 on the eastern plains of Colorado first paid their dues in the state legislatures. It gave them time to mature as candidates, learn the ropes, and making their big mistakes in small pondsn first. It’s truly a matter of going to college before going to graduate school.
I admire and appreciate the enthusiasm and energy of the Tea Partiers, but this purity nonsense is totally self-destructive. It is simply not possible for a candidate to perfectly represent exactly ALL of the positions of more than a very few voters, maybe none, actually. Therefore, in addition to electability, it is necessary to agree upon a small number of core issues amongst the support group. Over hundreds of years (not just in the U.S. mind you) political parties formed to formalize this process to avoid the bloody self-destruction that results from a no-rules, no-holds-barred hand-to-hand combat over “purity”.
Personally, I simplified this election to a single issue, namely, were you staunchly opposed to the Obama agenda, were you electable, and would you follow through on your word to repeal Obammunism. Nothing else mattered to me on any other issues! Nothing that the candidate did or said before mattered to me. This greatly focused my thought processes and made my decisions easy about who to support with my energy and money.
I can’t see how you being “done” will matter one way or another to the rest of us. As long as you vote for whoever the rest of us nominate, it’s all good.