This is what happens when the GOP practices Identity, or maybe even Tribal, politics.
This election season we had both the Mormons and the Evangelicals doing this and it split the conservatives right down the middle allowing the moderates and liberals in the party the chance to win.
Mitt should have been smart enough to see the built-in problems Evangelicals would have with a Mormon and never should have gotten into the race.
The Evangelicals should have been smart enough to accept the 95% solution they had in Fred or Hunter, but they were not.
Each of the Candidates, with the exception of Fred, Hunter, Tancredo, and the minor players that dropped out early were playing one group against another and putting their own interests before the well-being of the party and our country.
Way too many political games and not enough statesmanship.
We are really the STUPID party.
I am afraid that the GOP deserves the drubbing that is coming in November.
We are looking at a train-wreck.
even if fred had the support...he also didn’t have the intangible “factors” of electability. It’s not enough to pick solid conservatives. They also have to be able to win.
nevertheless, the failure to endorse Fred by the movement conservatives shows that they are pretty clueless.
Way too many political games and not enough statesmanship.
We are really the STUPID party.
I am afraid that the GOP deserves the drubbing that is coming in November.
We are looking at a train-wreck.
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Well, America, as it was founded, is looking at the train wreck. The weak, spineless Repubs are just riding the train and throwing coal into the boiler....that is why I am no longer associated with the Repubs and they no longer have my support. They walked away from their base, in favor of socialism and “compassionate conservatism” to feather their own political nests, ala DemoRat style. I hope we can clean up the train wreck pieces in the next four years and restore both conservatism, and a government for and by the people.
I am not optimistic about that happening. Washington has lost all sight of its job for the people, and has turned into a massive power-play organization. It is all about power now, at any price to America.