franky, brother man.
It doesn't matter what you are registered as where your mindset is.
My assuming you are a lib, comes from the fact that you voted not once, but TWICE for the most radical left wing statist that this country has ever seen.
So you saying that the GOP has a shot at your vote, is the same as tony telling me he was once a conservative.
You have the same talking points that I hear from the left. Bush is to blame for all, Palin sucks, we went to war in Iraq for Chenney, everyone is in bed with pharma/oil.
Palin? I have never seen a woman attacked so vehemently from the press, not even "Clinton's girls" (those he sexually assaulted, not his daughters) got that treatment.
If you can't see that Cruz, Paul, Carson, would be infinitely better than the dem side, I don't doubt your leanings.
And you are correct with the repub establishment and the "we aren't them" platform. These fools that run the show in D.C. have no platform, they like big government too, they just think they can manage it better than the democrats. This is a fight similar to the one that Reagan encountered and his desire to take the party back from within.
The establishment rinos in D.C. are scared to death of Obama.. they have less spine than he does and they don't know or are too afraid of a media backlash to fight him. They talked a big game when they were up for elections and then reverted right back to "playing ball."
You find it laughable, I find it infuriating.
I have ZERO respect for the establishment leaders and I do consider them cowards. That is why, when these hacks go after Cruz, or Carson, or Paul or Rubio, Lee, Cotton, etc, THOSE are the guys who I look to for leadership in the future- because they scare the entrenched rinos, and don't think they don't make the democrats piss their pants.
You forget the absolute pasting that the democrats took in the house (65 seats?) and the senate and then the governorships and the state houses in the last 2 elections. The country is leaning conservative not liberal.
At the national level, the dems have won 5 of 6 as you say. But I blame that on putting up lame republican candidates. Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Bush1. There has not been a conservative on the ticket since Reagan. Reagan was not all that long ago and the absolute landslides that he amassed in 2 elections was incredible.
If another conservative runs and can espouse what conservatism means (it is actually a way of life) and be unapologetic about it, he will trounce Hillary.
And for the record, I hoped that Obama failed at everything he did, right off the bat. I read both his books, listened to his rhetoric and knew that this man would take the U.S. and lurch so far left and away from the Constitution as to make it more difficult for our posterity to realize the American dream.
I hoped I was wrong, but I wasn't.
