Many lessons to be learned from this campaign. Among the most important is this reality-check summarized by our own Karl Weld: "If this state won't elect a Republican like Richard Tisei, it will never elect a Republican."
The doom is rather overwhelming.
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P.S. The second part of my quote was not used. I qualified my statement by saying they won't be elected for state-wide or national office. In certain pockets of the state, Independents will vote for Republicans for State Rep/Senate. But state-wide and national offices are quickly becoming, if not already, closed to Republican candidates. G.O.P. Growth. Opportunity. Prosperity. For all Americans.
Karl (TLC)Weld
I follow politics fairly closely, and couldn't tell you one thing Tisei or Brown was actually going to push in D.C. in order to solve our problems. They just kept saying they were going to compromise and be independent. So, on the one hand you had Democrats saying they were going to solve our problems by taxing rich people, and our two best GOP chances saying they were going to solve our problems by being independent. On twitter @bfrivers
In another thread we basically have Barbara Anderson being outraged that people who emphatically would not vote for a Republican did not end up voting for the Republican who called himself an independent, and instead voted for the Libertarian, a person independent of the Republican Party. Can we admit that the whole running as a stealth Republican thing is pretty stupid? There is an R next to their name on the ballot. It kinda gives it away. --- "That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)
Social conservatives need to get the focus off of abortion and birth control and put it on something that even liberal women find appalling: genetic engineering of human beings, eugenics and loss of equality and dignity, exploitation of women, harm to babies, commodification of people and materialist manufacturing of people, wasting money and energy and health resources on something totally unnecessary and stupid.
Social conservatives should remember that the Republican party is based not on Libertarianism and states rights and materialist view of of people, but on human dignity and equality and a belief that people are created by God with equal rights and dignity.
