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To: cotton1706
Just the other day I posted a reply which suggested that we ought to reconsider William F Buckley's famous maxim that we should vote for the most conservative candidate who can win. In view of the shenanigans in Mississippi and the chronic betrayal of conservatism by Boehner and McConnell in their respective official capacities, I question whether the time has now come to actually undermine the candidacies of Boehner and McConnell in the general elections.

The danger of forfeiting a chance to take control of the Senate was considered and the danger of such a course of action running out of control was also considered. Nevertheless, in carefully limited context it might now be time to openly demonstrate the power of The Tea Party to wreck establishment Republican chances just as they have sought and actually succeeded in wrecking conservative candidates chances in election after election.

All of this I bring up to note that the bona fides of rich Lowry as a movement conservative and one who is reliably conservative have been in question now for some time.

In view of the century history of the tension between conservatives and establishment Republicans outlined in this article perhaps it is now time to have a second look at the occasion in which Bill Buckley read the John Birch Society out of the Republican Party. Were all the equities on Buckley's side? I make no insinuation, but perhaps it is time to reassess the role of National Review in setting political correctness for the right.

I do not forget who Bill Buckley's son has become.


2 posted on 07/15/2014 12:49:48 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Bill Buckley wrote that when there was nothing but liberal republicans, so his goal was to move the republican party to the right by choosing the most “viable” conservative that was available.

Moderate republicans use that line as a club, when history has shown that their candidates rarely win. Witness November 2012 and the slew of bland, vanilla Establishment retreads that went down to defeat.


3 posted on 07/15/2014 12:53:37 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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