oooh, the Guardian.
They wouldn’t want Rand Paul to break out, now, would they? He would undoubtedly wrap our Constitution around there head and jerk our national treasure from under their feet and remove our military safety bubble from around their persons and cancel our participation at their socialist dinner tables.
It is a shame we are falling for the “nudge” already. The R Party and the Left and the outright Marxists want us rubes to devour our own field. The earlier they get us to do it, the better.
The longer we can keep our deep bench up and running, the media can not possibly beat down our field, UNLESS, they can set us up for being nudged into doing the dirty work for the Republican Party, and indirectly for the Democrat Party, for Hillary. LIKE THEY DID LAST TIME.
I am going to be seen defending Paul and Walker and Carson and certainly Cruz on FR. I am for TED CRUZ, but I am not going to shove him down everybody’s throat and alienate supporters of other candidates. If Cruz can beat the machines and pull off the nomination, AND then expand our base in a general election, he can win the presidency. But, meanwhile, it is wayyyy to early (IMHO) to be bashing up the quirky Rand Paul and THE nationally undeveloped Scott Walker and the Hillary gunner, Carly Fiorina, and dear Dr. Carson and bombastic Christy.
I think Cruz is such a class act. I believe he may believe that with his best and most honest effort, that Providence will place him where Providence wishes him to be, and alienating the electorate among ourselves is not something he would want us to be doing, or wanting us to think even helps him. It does not, in the end.
The field needs to stay strong for surely a year or more, and Rand Paul is thankfully, attracting LOTS of moderates, Dems, Libertarians and even ultra conservatives. It has to be hurting Hillary, but it’s not hurting our conservative field, because the Paul agenda doesn’t compete against the message of CRUZ, at all. At least, not this early.
Nearly everyone likes some of what Rand Paul has to say, and some like ALL of what he has to say. THAT is a good thing to go with against Hillary. Our nominee will have to get those votes away from Hillary, in the same way Rand has.
We should defend our field and not get sucked into doing the bidding of destroying them for the dark forces.
Meant to ping you to #10.
I think it is too early (I could be wrong) to catfight and tear down our magnificent field, don’t you? Not that the time won’t come after some things shake out.
Sorry, I meant to ping ya’ here, to #10, but my butterfingers got away from me.
RitaOK, on the face of it I don’t have a problem with the ‘full field’ as you suggest. I do want to address a dynamic that causes me to feel just the opposite though. I think it is an important one.
We generally start out with about five to seven people. One of them is invariably a GOPe and RNC beauty queen since birth. That’s where the problem arises.
The more Conservative folks are popular. They each develop a following. Pretty soon each can expect about 10% of the delegates in the early going. At the same time the beauty queen since birth gets the Leftist Republican vote and in many of the early primaries and caucuses, they get the Democrat vote too.
The five who lean conservative pull in about 10 delegates each, and the GOPe and RNC beauty queen pulls in 25.
By the time you’ve got five of these under your belt, the Conservative guys have about 50 delegates and the beauty queen since birth has 250.
If we are serious about nominating the best Conservative, then we better get our act together right now. If we go the big field route, Jeb Bush will get the nomination without breaking a sweat. The Democrat cross over vote will ensure that.
Others may disagree with me, but that’s how I see it.