I don’t think the word “pissed” begins to express how he must feel.

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The last election was a joke, so I guess they might as well keep up the winning formula

Endorsing Charlie Crist will save the NRSC precious resources that can be used to fight in other states.

And just why are the resources so friggin’ scarce Cornyn?

Then, the rest of us can pick up the pieces and fix it.

The dim-wits who want nothing more than to be loved by the left need to be fought and defeated. Who gives a rat’s a** about “winning” (something these putzes aren’t going to do no matter how hard they pretend to be the Dims) if winning means becomming the sludge on the left.

Cornyn is A LIAR when he says he’s being a “realist” in endorsing Charlie Crist.

He’s endorsing Crist because Crist is a member of the “good ole boy” club of Republicans.

Pure and Simple.

DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO THE GOP OR THE NRSC.

They’ve lost me. I’ll support third party in the future – or write-ins. In Cornyn’s case – I’ll donate to any MoveOn type org that targets him for a takedown.

I won’t support a Republican Party that ex-communicates it’s own base.

I won’t support a Republican Party that picks and chooses who can run in elections the way the mullah’s do in Iran. AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NRSC IS DOING IN FLORIDA. It’s anti-democratic. They need to get their big fat rears out of that and let the people decide.

John Cornyn is a TRAITOR. A man who’s totally in it for himself.

I’ve been a Republican since 1993 – but no more – I’ve had it with these fools. I will donate to Sarah Palin’s Pac – and pray she leaves the party to and makes a run on a third party ticket. Then we’ll see just how well the RINO GOP does.

Thanks for nothing John Cornyn – you anti-democratic fool. Nice trick there you learned from the Iranians.

Keep it real.

Having said that, Rubio is little known inside Florida
and still very young. With Rubio, the NRSC will have to raise and spend millions in order to be competitive. That money will not be available in other tight races.

Whereas Crist has been elected to statewide office before. He is a freaking former governor.

That is what Cornyn means by being realistic and I can understand him. Since when is wishful thinking conservative?

Rubio´s time will come. Right now, what counts is getting Republicans in the House and Senate. Every Republican is better than every Democrat. And I do not know that Crist is a second Specter or Chafee.

No, not really. Crist has a 70% approval rating among Republicans in Florida. They already voted for the man and made him Governor. It just might be that the people of that state would rather have him as a Senator than they would Rubio, right now. After all, it is up to them to do the voting.

You say who is a better fit and wonder if the beltway people are better at making the choice…well are bloggers better at making the choice? I think the people of Florida will make that choice and if they want Rubio, they can vote for him, they can support him. Democrats won control of the Congress with the help of the Blue Dogs. They ran people who could win in their respective states, Republicans need to do the same sort of thing. For instance, in PA, Republicans made it plain that they do not want Specter…but it might be that Crist is exactly what the majority of Republicans want in Florida.

Let them decide.

Rae on May 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Great link that the Cornyn’s et al never read and don’t believe.

We have a chance to field competitive candidates in Connecticut, Illinois, Nevada, California, Arkansas, and Colorado in 2010.

Arnuld?!!!

It always come down to money. Give to Marco Rubio and Sarah Palin and deny the RINOs, NRSC, and the RNC donations as long they do not shape up.

technopeasant on May 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM

Absolutely the right response!!!

I do, however, send each of the numerous RNC (Rino Nominating Committee) solicitations back with a note explaining why they are not going to get any more money from me until they change their ways.

Conservative candidates I support in other states used to be puzzled by my out-of-state, not-a-lobbyist contributions. But more recently, they are treating this as routine: apparently lots of other Conservative individuals are doing the same thing.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Cornyn: We’re being realists

You’re being real pussies without any useful purpose. You’re redundant and unnecessary. Go away, Whig!

Interesting. We’ll see what Texas voters have to say about it. I don’t like the guy, but I can’t vote in Texas.

AUINSC on May 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM

He lost this Texan voter next round(unfortunately not until 2014)
I keep hearing “A conservative can’t win in X district or state”. How do we know this is true when the R party hasn’t supported a conservative in those areas for decades. All they ever do is try to run moderates and they keep losing ground. They need to separate themselves from the democrats yet they keep moving to the center left. Right now they are the most moderate group of politicians that I remember (in my limited lifetime). Yet they keep talking about moving to the center left. And they keep losing more ground.
Hey, let’s try a new route. Run conservatives in EVERY district and state race for the next three election cycles and then if they lose I will listen to you when you say conservatives cannot win in those liberally screwed up areas. We did the opposite for the last three (possibly more) election cycles and lost.
Hey, we can’t do much worse than the moderates are doing.
A leader does not follow the conventional wisdom of the day. They don’t govern by polls. They stand on principles and do what is right – not follow the Washington crowd so they can be liked inside the beltway.

Cornyn: We’re being realists

Are ya now?:

While establishment Republicans find solace in complaining about the demands from the right, the record of history shows that virtually every warning and call for internal reform conservatives have offered since 1996 has been vindicated. It was conservatives who indicted the corrupting practice of pork-barrel spending long before sitting members were formally indicted. It was conservatives who warned that budget surpluses would quickly disappear in an environment of out-of-control spending and decimate the Republican brand. It was conservatives who insisted that a culture of oversight was more important to our long-term success than a culture of parochialism.

Therefore, what led the Republican Party to this day was not the application of conservative principles but the abandonment of those principles while hypocritically appealing to those tenets. The past few years have shown a strong correlation between electoral success and fidelity to limited government conservatism. The more Republicans abandoned conservatism, the more voters abandoned Republicans.