Posted on 08/06/2014 12:00:35 AM PDT by nathanbedford
Yep, one set of rules for the incumbent, another for the challenger.
The Wolf fan club wanted to make this race about "what have they done?" but ONLY demanded an answer from the incumbent. The challenger was held to a different standard and did not need to demonstrate any such commitment to conservatism throughout their career. All they had to do is TALK conservative for a few months during a Senate race -- ironically the very thing they hypocritically blasted the incumbent for doing!
Mark Levin claimed he KNEW Wolf was a sure thing because Wolf was conservative "BEFORE becoming a Senator". He's wrong. We never "knew" that about Wolf. In fact, the question had been posed dozens of times asking when Wolf had demonstrated conservative principles BEFORE he decided he wanted a Senate seat, and NONE of his fans could demonstrate a single example.
Blasting Roberts for not living in Kansas was an example of the same set of differing rules for the incumbent and the challenger. If Roberts HADN'T held elective office and was screaming "TEA PARTY!!" at the top of his lungs, they'd have no problems whatsoever with the fact he was living most of the year in Virginia and had done so for decades. We know this because numerous candidates who screamed "TEA PARTY!!" weren't living in the state they were running from. They had absolutely no problem with those candidates doing so, but we're supposed to believe it's an unforgivable sin that PROVES they're "out of touch" if the incumbent does it. No sale.
Credible conservatives with track records don't play these games. A meme all over the internet points out how Ronald Reagan didn't spend his entire term blaming Carter for the economy being bad. Instead, he went to work and fixed the problem. That's the difference between him and an empty suit like Obama. Nobody needs to ask Joe Carr or Chris McDaniels "what have they done?" because they have track records SHOWING exactly what they've done BEFORE they decided they wanted people to elect them Senator. That's the difference between them and empty suits like Wolf.
What's amusing here is NathanForrest creates this vanity thread specifically trying to "analyze" his candidates losing and ask people "what went wrong"? that caused incumbents to win and Tea Party candidates to lose. Numerous people here have chimed in here and told him the same thing over and over (you need to pick your battles carefully, you needed to concentrate more on beating actual RINOs, there was nothing wrong with Roberts record that merited a challenge, Wolf was not a credible challenger, you can't make up standards for candidates as you go along and be inconsistent, etc.) Now he's doesn't what the hear it.
I guess the truth hurts. Sorry, sometimes you just have to man up and accept that your team screwed up.
No I don’t and that my point. There will be disappointments and there will be victories. As in any war.
My only claim here really is that the TEA party movement isn’t dead. We must not let ourselves get discouraged by anyone.
And I’m not opposed to the idea of a states convention. It just seems a bit premature at this point.
Disclaimer: my attitude may change after November.
Who is nathanforrest?
You mean nathanbedford ??
yikes, apparently there are two of them on this forum.
Except the nathanforrest never posted anything, at least that shows up in search.
You were trying to tweak the author of this vanity I take it?
“You mean nathanbedford ??”
yep, that’s the guy. I could have sworn his username was NathanForrest. Odd that he uses Nathan’s middle name.
I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why I have connected them in recent posts on this thread. If the election process is failing us we are left with Article V, if one is opposed to Article V, one is less likely to find fault with this electoral season.
This is an occasion in which I hope you are right and I am wrong.
All the best.
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