Are GOP elites over-promising their special expertise to pick the best candidates? Insiders have the unique ability to choose candidates who get 40% of the vote while avoiding those other candidates who get 40% of the vote. Can you say margin of error? Can you say no statistically significant difference?
What really is the big difference, the big deal? The GOP establishment promoted a candidate who won 40% of the vote in Delaware for President in 2012 while condemning in shrieking horror a candidate who won 40% of the vote in Delaware for U.S. Senate in 2010.
Could it be that Karl Rove is really no better at picking candidates than Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin? Their actual results are exactly the same: 40% of the vote in a blue State, Delaware, for both candidates.
Why shouldn’t the GOP listen to advice from dim-bulb-crats?
After all, GOP leaders are “Dim-Bulb-Crats Lite” and are all charter members of the “Future Dim-Bulb-Crat Club”.
I f*rt in their general direction.
The RATs have fouled their own nest and are now willing to help the Republicans.
The difference between the GOPe and Democrats is more a matter of philosophical fine points than policy, so it makes sense that they would agree with advice from Democrats.
For atheistic Democrats, government is God, and their purpose is to shape God in their own will, while forcing the masses into obedience of that will.
While not thinking of government as God, some, if not most, Republicans think that government is power, and by its enlargement they can play like gods, or be the colleagues of gods, the Democrats.
Conservatives believe that government at best is a necessary evil, and it needs to be limited and beaten down from time to time.
Who will the GOPe listen to?
I’d disagree that Palin’s choices fare no better than Rove’s. In the past couple elections, hers have won several and Rove’s have lost nearly all. When you look at the actual numbers, she is doing much better, percentage-wise. You cannot claim that ALL tea party candidates are Palin choices. She doesn’t automatically endorse all TP candidates, because, as she well knows, people are fickle. Some she has endorsed have not been true TP candidates in the end, but she also stated QUITE PUBLICLY, that if they didn’t vote TP after being elected, then they deserve to be voted out next time around. One cannot always tell, and in the pressure by others to endorse, you can certainly be wrongly influenced, but Palin has also learned from these experiences, I’d say, and she is more careful whom she endorses.
But but but...the democrats assure us if we dont support amnesty for illegal aliens, we will lose/s
A law professor called in to Rush a while back and said he tells his students not to take advice from the other side of the table.
Beg to differ. Listen, then do the opposite!