To them, not maintaining a residence in the state you represent isn't a flaw, it's sound financial planning. Why waste money putting on airs when you have become a Beltway animal anyway, and we all know that some animals are more equal than others. The hicks back home should be grateful for all of the influence Lugar has amassed. But nooo, they think that principles matter. Well, the upstart will just have to be made an example of, just like they did with so many upstarts in 2010. Can't have the order of thins upset now, with all that money and power in DC.
“How much do you want to bet that the same GOP-E folks demanding we fall in behind Mitt Romney will be trashing and backstabbing Mourdock if he knocks off their beloved RINO Lugar?”
Nothing. It’s guaranteed to happen. This cuts both ways though. We are dismantling the GOP-E. Lugar plays a big role in the GOP-E. Taking him down is a warning to the rest of the GOP-E. We are coming for you next. Romney is a battle. We lost that one. At this point do we turn tail and run? Hell no. We are at war with the GOP-E. It is going to take a while to take it down, but I am not turning tail, and neither should any of you.
This Mitt hate needs to stop. The fact is, the conservative groundswell is everywhere and isn’t abating, regardless of what Mitt does or doesn’t do. In OH, Josh Mandel-—virtually an unknown, is now running within MOE of incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown; in UT 2, Chris Stewart, and conservative, just won without a runoff for what will be a safe seat. Almost everywhere you look there is excitement about GETTING OBAMA AND THE DEMS OUT, and if you can’t get behind Mitt, fine, but you better damn well get behind getting Obama out.
“...just like they did with so many upstarts in 2010.”
You know I’m tired of hearing this.
I’m tired of hearing it from the left, from the MSM and from the right.
OK, not every “tea party” candidate won in 2010 but I don’t think I’m wrong when I say MOST of them did win.
Oh my goodness, if I ever hear O’Donnell, Angle and the guy from Colorado’s name linked together like Tinkers, Ever, Chance again I’m going to scream. (Full disclosure, I gave Sharon Angle more money then I’ve ever given any other pol, and I pretty much killed myself campaigning for Anna Little in NJ, so my bona fides are good.)
What about Rubio and Rand Paul and hundreds (thousands?) of state legislators whose names will never be known?
We need to TAKE over the GOP. OK, so, we didn’t get it done this time in terms of the presidential nominee.
Let’s face a fact, please dear Lord let us face it together: this was not because of some nefarious doings on the part of what I see is to be called the GOP-E (which is good, btw). It is because the conservative “not-Romney” votes were split among too many candidates, because Rick Perry fell on his face, because Pawlenty folded like a cheap camera, because no really strong conservative ran, because no conservative who ran was really strong, and the number one reason Romney’s the nominee - he got the most votes.
I’m tired of all this obscurantism on our side. We’ve won many, we’ll lose a lot, many contests will end in a middling muddle.
WE’VE GOT TO KEEP FIGHTING!
That’s what the Left does, that’s what they’ve done for hundreds of years. From the French Revolutions to Elizabeth Warren, every day they fight what they see as the good fight.
Win or lose, every morning they wake up and ask “what can I do for THE CAUSE today?”
They don’t moan and groan that Clinton was a piker and a whore monger, that Edwards was a despicable man and a whore monger and that Obama, although not a whore monger, is a disaster; they just keep slogging on.
And via that slogging they have brought Western Civilization to the brink of disaster, time and time again. And again, now.
So, forget about O’Donnell and Angle and forget about Romney too.
To paraphrase Alinsky, find a fight that you’ll enjoy and FIGHT IT!
Quit carping.
The fate of the free world depends on it.
I'll bet a $1,000 that you are full of crap and that when Mourdock wins in the primary, that the pubbies get 100% behind him.
Put up or shut up.
But I want the money in a escrow account, and I'll put up the same $ 1,000.
I am so tired of you whiners with big mouths and no balls.
Put up the money.