“It’s time to think strategically -— losing is NOT a winning strategy. The losers have no impact on anything.”
Golly gee, then why is Rove pushing Kashkari, who he already said would lose??
I say go for broke! Milquetoast moderate candidates do not win. Witness November 2012 when all the Establishment candidates went down in flames, and they were all “thinking strategically.”
Makes it interesting to run a true believer and make the wolves at least have to show their fangs. Another Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman is what the Rovians want. We know what usually happens when they get their nominees.
Ronald Reagan said, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”