Otherwise, this sentence will probably send chills up the Establishment's spine: "The message on election night was clear, the moderate, Democrat Lite, brand of Republicanism supported by the establishment did not win the Senate majority for the GOP."
Tea Party won in Mississippi until John Cornyn, Karl Rove and Haley Barbour paid black democrats to vote in the run off. 6000 illegal voters showed up getting $15 a piece all on money donated by you to the party to elect Thad Cock Ran, the dinasour establishment boy.
Then there’s Scott Brown in NH, the proven sellout in the US Senate. Four years ago, Kelly Ayotte won a Senate seat in NH pretending to be a conservative.
The article does not mention them, but RINO Scott Brown and GOPe Ed Gillespie were also losers.
Those two candidates that are described as moderate Republicans were really libertarian Republicans. The Paulers just didn’t have the power that they thought they had. It goes to show that attempting to be all things to all people doesn’t work.
The GOP would do well to run only candidates in that category.
So help me, the Republic would be served by anyone who pushed Karl Rove off a cliff.
The examples he cites, OR, MN and NJ are three of the most liberal states. He could add Kashkari in the CA governors race. But really there’s no reason to think they lost because they are moderates, or that a conservative candidate would do better.
IF moderates were the loser, why then are they still calling the shots? Why have they not been or being replaced by conservatives?
i could almost cry when i think of what could have been had we conservatives not been willfully suppressed in the national primaries by mcconnell, boehner and their GOPe/chamber cronies. still, our Lord is in charge of these results, not the leftist GOP, and His will be done. these “split” results are hopeful, especially at the local and state levels, are clearly mandated by Him for our own good.
Wait! You mean the Koch Brothers backed losers? They can lose? For all their money and influence, they couldn’t buy their elections? How is that possible???????
So of course, the lesson to learn is: RUN MORE “MODERATES”!!!
“Moderate is a base-stealing word for liberal Republicans.” — William F. Buckley Jr.
So much for the meme that the GOP needs to "move left on social issues to remain competitive."
If it helps any, I think RINOs are losers every night.
Here’s the problem for ‘moderate’ Republican candidates: There are few if any ‘moderate’ Republican voters. No one likes them, no one trusts them and if given a choice in a Republican primary, vote for the alternative, if the candidate is serious enough.
Mike McFadden was much like Mitt Romney, a nice guy who couldn't dare say anything negative about the opponent.
Pitiful - not close to true at all. https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeforMN/videos?spfreload=10