The 2010 midterm elections actually DISPROVE the assertion.
Mitoch55 on February 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM

That is an absolutely untrue assertion. Winning one house of congress by scaring the crap out of low information voters does NOT equal an endorsement of conservatism as you see it. And as you can see from the last election, only works once.

You sold nobody. You scared them.

But if there’s enough of you and even one decent candidate that has a pray of a shot, none of that other stuff matters.

Genuine on February 20, 2013 at 1:27 PM

When the GOPe works at cross purposes, continues to attack conservative candidates after they’ve won their Republican primaries, I think we can see what matters to them (and you?). Retaining power. Negative ads, negative talking points, etc, work. That’s why they do it.

They also can’t get one of their own anywhere near a POTUS nom despite their alleged overwhelming majority of control of everything.

Moesart on February 20, 2013 at 1:25 PM

Who said conservatives “own” anything in the GOP? You squishes own it. And therefore you’re 0 for the past 2 presidential elections. Good going there!

Better yet, conservatives in my area are leaving and disaffiliating with the party. I did so about a month ago.

Way to prove you need to get out of DC a bit more often.

There is a lucrative business for people who are clearly moderate dems (at best) who claim to be republican or conservative (a la Parker and Frum) in the MSM to write articles bashing the GOP (or conservatives). So, someone like Parker, who clearly does not adhere to any conservative or even GOP platform policy positions, claims to be “the sole sane republican” and uses each column to bash republicans and conservatives. It is obvious that she lacks talent and would have no job outside of her use to the MSM as a “republican” bashing other republicans. Just read the tripe she wrote here.

The reverse doesn’t happen b/c the mainstream media wouldn’t publish it and would pretty quickly point out the person is no longer a Democrat. So, if Zell Miller started a column calling for sane democrats to take the party back, a) the MSM would not carry it and b) the MSM would quickly label Zell Miller as an ex-democrat to limit any damage.

The GOP needs to disavow Parker as a republican and argue forcefully and continually that Parker, Frum et al do not count as “conservative voices” or “GOP voices”. The MSM claims to put forth competing views by printing 20 far-left liberals, a few moderate dems and then people like Frum and Parker. We have to stop letting them get away with it.

In 2016, we’ll have a much stronger bench. Mitt Romney would have been a second-tier candidate had he been squaring off against a two-term Scott Walker, John Kasich, Mike Scott, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, etc.

Outlander on February 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM

We’ll have a much stronger bench, but how many of them will even run? The GOP appears to be planning to do what they did with Romney – get all the big money people behind their chosen candidate early and shut out all potential opposition. My preferred candidates are Scott Walker and Mike Pence, but there’s no way either of them are going to waste time campaigning against Rubio or Jeb or whoever the establishment has picked.

We’ll be stuck with a field of third and fourth stringers and one handpicked candidate like we were in 2012.

Why you are such a great thinker.

Romney got the snowball rolling in those north east liberal states where Republicans tend to be left of center.

Same with McCain , Same with Dole.

That is why the entire primary system sucks, why it needs to be re-designed completely.

Take it back from whom? Boehner is the Republican Speaker of the House. McConnell is the Republican Senate minority leader. Romney was the Republican Presidential candidate? What does she want? To kick all of the conservative House members out of the party so that we can return to the 2008-2010 dynamic? To kick out the conservatives who votes for Romney, in addition to those who didn’t? I don’t get it. This woman is completely and irreparably irrational.

besser tot als rot on February 20, 2013 at 12:18 PM

I swear to God there are people who actually think those that you mentioned are the “fringe” and Obama is a moderate..