Posted on 06/30/2014 4:14:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was furious that Thad Cochran slimed his way to victory, but every time we hardcore conservatives lose a battle, it seems a contingent of bitter-enders starts up about how the Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, and how they’ll refuse to vote in the general, and how they’ll take their collective ball and go home.
That’s crazy talk. We can get even with the GOP establishment later; we need to beat the Democrats first.
Now, many of my good friends disagree with me here, but I respect them enough to say what I think. And I think that when we focus on the establishment’s antics in Mississippi instead of focusing on November, we make Barack Obama happier than if he got to play 18 holes with the ghost of Karl Marx.
Let us assume that Thad Cochran didn’t play fair. Now let me assume the role of your father:
Life is not fair.
Yeah, I was shocked – shocked! – that our opponents refused to commit ritual suicide in order to allow our chosen candidate to waltz into the nomination that, a couple weeks ago, was his for his taking. Was anyone expecting the establishment to go quietly, to rollover, to not use every tool at its disposal to hold on to power?
We’re conservatives. We’re not supposed to make excuses, but I’m sure hearing a lot in the wake of Cochran’s win.
Yeah, his win. News Flash: Thad Cochran got more votes than our guy. That means our guy failed to perform the most important function of a conservative politician.
He failed to win.
Hell, he couldn’t handle the GOP establishment calling him a racist. Why does anyone imagine he could have handled the Democrats doing it in November? They’re the pros!
Yeah, Cochran dared to appeal to Democrats…who voted for him. It would be nice to have other Republicans embrace this innovative concept.
Am I happy about the slanders Cochran’s buddies spread, or about the way the K Street crew spent zillions to keep Thad awake and away from the livestock long enough to get nominated?
No, but that ship has sailed and sank. Winners leverage their assets into victory.
Am I suggesting that we forgo our vengeance? Never! I’m all about payback. But getting even with these K Street creeps can wait. I say defeat the Democrats first. Instead of choosing to fight two opponents at once, we can deal with these establishment tools later from a position of strength when Reid’s reign is just a bad memory.
I’m getting sick of this quitter talk about how we can’t possibly win, about how everyone’s against us, about how this struggle being hard is some sort of cosmic injustice perpetrated upon us by mysterious forces beyond our control.
George Washington and his men ate their damn shoes as they shivered in Valley Forge. That’s adversity, not having to somehow find the strength to carry on after nominating a Republican who is sure to win in November and has a mere 88 percent conservative rating.
This isn’t about our feelings. This isn’t about our “principles” either. There is no principle that compels us to allow Barack Obama to retain a Senate majority that absolutely will confirm a Supreme Court justice who will absolutely vote to:
Might some GOP senate dork vote to confirm someone like that? Maybe, but a Democrat absolutely will. Refusing to support every GOP nominee means you are choosing to be silenced, disenfranchised and disarmed.
Yeah, that’ll sure show Thad Cochran and all his pals. The only thing he’d like more is a lap dance in the champagne room at the local 4-H Club.
So we’ve lost a battle. We’ve lost them before, and we’ll lose them again. Did you think this business of taking our country back would be easy? Did you expect a cakewalk? Well people, this is where we winnow out the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots.
My new book, Conservative Insurgency, is a speculative history of what it will take to win this contest for our nation’s soul, and it has a subtitle: “The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041.” That’s right – this fight will take decades. The progressives couldn’t run a great country like ours into the dirt overnight and we won’t pick it back up in a day.
So here’s the deal. We suck it up, vote for Thad if we live in Mississippi, and focus on fights where we can run up the score. Louisiana. Colorado. Alaska. How about Joni Ernst in Iowa? Are you so mad at the GOP that you’ll abandon this Army veteran to a trial lawyers’ puppet who thinks farmers are dummies?
Yeah, the establishment sucks. But so does helping it win by indulging your frustrations instead of standing up, brushing yourself off, and getting back in the ring for another round. You want to send a message? Let victory be your message.
But there’s no easy way to win.
A third party isn’t going to do it.
Refusing to vote for GOP candidates isn’t going to do it.
Trying to occupy some pseudo-moral high ground by refusing to dirty your hands by making hard choices between sub-optimal options isn’t going to do it.
There’s one path to victory.
We fight.
We fight for the best GOP candidate in the primary.
We fight for the GOP candidate in the general.
We fight, starting at the precinct level and working up, for control of the Republican Party apparatus.
Look how far we’ve come. Ted Cruz. Rand Paul. Mike Lee. Plus all the rest trying their best to prove their conservative bona fides to us. Oh, and I’ll have fries with that, Eric Cantor.
All in just five short years.
Think how far we can go to returning America to greatness – if we fight.
I know, right!?
They'll likely lose MS and this event has taught everyone about the similarities and difference [if much at all] between Dem and GOPe.
The lines are clearer and that is good IMO. I hope we can get the Senate without Cochran.
Was that the 'what a bunch of thumb-suckers' with a few pity party's thrown in?
Gee. the people who want my support and expected it all these years just called me racist and 'won' by inciting the welfare class to commit voter fraud!
Did those posters really think those childish insults would have any effect?
I didn't say it would. You must have replied to the wrong poster in your zeal to attack someone, anyone!
I want a majority too. 60 Mitch McConnels and John McCains is no different than 60 democrats. Removing progressives is my goal. (D) or (R) makes no difference to me.
I have not attacked any poster here, but I will attack leftists in conservative clothing from sun to sun.
Seems the GOP-E is more interested in fighting the Tea Party than the Dems. We didn’t pick this fight, they did, starting in 2010 and coming to a head with this fiasco.
Essentially, the Establishment Republicans and Democrats are one and the same.
Who is doing the dividing here? Hint - it isn't the Tea Party. It was the GOP-E that slimed us. And they will continue to slime us if they end up winning in MS.
None whatsoever. Wack birds, racists, obstructing Obama’s agenda (would that it were so).
I suppose that's a matter of opinion. But what is clear is that the Dems and GOPe love to see us giving it away.
In fact, I would not be surprised to learn that some of the Dem/GOPe kids are here promoting it. Sleepers even.
Yes, that was implied in another thread. Are you implying it regarding me? Would that be an attack?
Seems to me that the author doesn’t realize that it’s hard to fight the enemy at your front (Democrats) when you’ve also got enemies at your back (GOPe). First priority needs to be the people who will backstab you or else they’ll do it at the time you need them most. It reminds me of the scene in Braveheart where William Wallace is betrayed by the nobles on horses right in the middle of a crucial battle. Also, his point of view is so short sighted. He is like the person who doesn’t understand why we don’t negotiate with terrorists. The last thing we want to do is give credence to the Chochran strategy for future GOPe politicians to emulate.
Projection for the purpose of baseless personal attack.
How Alinsky of you.
Yes. But defend the men who have unequivocally attacked conservatives, namely Thad Cochran. I held my nose and voted for Romney. I said never again, and I meant it. Cochran has outstripped Romney by a mile in backstabbing conservatives. I will vote for McDaniels for Senate, he’s a conservative. I will never vote for Cochran or any rat, for any reason. And it’s some irony for anyone to accuse those of us who won’t vote for Cochran, who blames conservatives for obstructing Hussein’s commie agenda, as “sleeper leftists”.
No certainly not but it is all around us. Most of them are easily spotted though. They don’t hide so well.
You do seem anxious to attack tho - tough day already?
Wow it’s alinsky to assert that there are trolls on FR?
Who knew?!
No, only to insinuate that your debating opponent is one when you've run out of arguments.
Good analogy. I can definitely see Barbour and McConnell as the Scottish noblemen in todays battles.
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