Posted on 05/13/2012 9:07:15 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
We beat them only one time: with Reagan in 1980 (and 1984 by extension) because we conservatives were better organized and united. We also beat them in 1964 with Goldwater, but they sandbagged the nominee.
It would have been nice if Sarah had gotten in. But she didn't.
We have to play with the hand that we were dealt. It is even possible that a Romney administration might do something right with the right people to push him.
It is a hell of a lot more likely that will happen than pushing Obama in the right direction will happen with a bicameral majority.
I started this thread to discuss positive ways we might reform a RINO rigged system into picking less RINO inclined nominees in the future.
Too bad it has deteriorated into a thread of whining about the latest RINO wing nominee and how we will punish the GOP establishment by taking our marbles and going home.
Conservatives are supposed to be about 40% of the American voting populace, moderates about 40% and liberals about 20%. But the liberals have a firm grip on one political party, the moderates are taking over the other and the conservatives are being consigned to a fringe movement, where the liberals rightly belong.
If that doesn't bother you, then just keep doing what your doing. Whine about the latest RINO nominee and let the opportunity to reform the rigged process which gives us RINO after RINO get p*ssed away -- again!
Posts #36 and #39, just on this thread, certainly suggest such a brilliant strategy.
Taking our marbles and going home is the way to pick less RINO inclined candidates in future. We need to hand a defeat to Romney. Otherwise, we strengthen the hand of the RINOs.
If they had learned those lessons so well, they wouldn't keep coming back with RINO nominees. But they do because (surprise) that's what RINOs do.
Now we have probably the weakest RINO nominee of the bunch and a perfect opportunity to tell them to put up or shut up by changing the delegate allocation rules to give more weight to states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP nominee in the fall.
And rather than work for a fundamental change in the delegate allocation process which might actually give a future conservative nominee a fighting chance, you'd rather just pile on the latest RINO offering so you can take smug satisfaction in letting nature take the same course it did in 1960, 1976, 1992, 1996 and 2008.
How clever! How imaginative! How symptomatic of why we keep playing the same game and stay stuck in the same rut!
You got the wrong guy. I am not the one piling on to Willard. I am opposed to him. Maybe, this post was intended for someone else?
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