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Monday, October 03, 2011

GOP's Checks Bounce

GOP's Checks Bounce
Electability and the Republican Field


GOP's Checks Bounce

“ The anxious GOP Establishment, which has detested every conservative would-be Republican presidential nominee -- Ronald Reagan not excluded -- since 1952, is desperately trying to sell this argument right now.  On September 28, David Frum, who seems to have morphed from a conservative into a water-carrier for the Country Club set, wrote a spectacularly conclusory, banal, and unpersuasive piece arguing the Republican Establishment's default position, and even AT's Mercer Tyson joined in on October 1. 

Don't believe any of it.

If for no other reason, don't believe it because the same electability narrative -- less blatantly but with equal vigor -- is being peddled by the MSM, which has been carpet-bombing Rick Perry from 30,000 feet for some three weeks now.  Does any reader of this site believe that the MSM is trying to help the Republican Party avoid an electability mistake in choosing its nominee?  [FULL Wonderfulness]

 ”
Spot-on observations by Jared E. Peterson (American Thinker), and worth reading.  This included list needs no explanation.

1976: Gerald Ford (moderate): Lost.

1980: Ronald Reagan (conservative): Won.

1984: Ronald Reagan (conservative): Won.

1988: George H. W. Bush (conservative, by the good fortune of association with Ronald Reagan): Won.

1992: George H. W. Bush (moderate, by the misfortune of having been himself for four years): Lost.

1996: Bob Dole (moderate): Lost.

2000: George W. Bush (conservative -- I'm talking perception): Won.

2004: George W. Bush (conservative -- see above comment): Won.

2008: John McCain (moderate): Lost. 

Am I hallucinating, or is a pattern discernible?

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5 comments:

  1. Jess10/3/11, 8:07 AM

    They hated Reagan and they were instrumental for keeping him from the Presidency when Carter was running for office.

    It's time their power is relinquished, or taken. There's no place for East Coast aristocracy in the United States.

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  2. Anonymous10/3/11, 8:58 AM

    In the words of a great American who ultimately became delusional under the sway of a much younger woman: "You could saw off the Eastern Seaboard, and float it out to sea, and America would be a better place for it."

    Casca

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  3. I-RIGHT-I10/3/11, 9:47 AM

    Herman just screwed the pooch with his idiotic racist charge against Perry. I thought the guy was smarter than than. There's another Great Black Hope shot down in flames 'cause he just can't control that Nigtard gene.

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  4. Rodger the Real King of France10/3/11, 11:11 AM

    I-RIGHT, et al, see Claire the barbarian's [/Cain]

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  5. DougM10/3/11, 2:15 PM

    I think they still fear a Goldwater thing.
    They'd rather loose by not being liberal enough rather than loose by being seen as too conservative.
    You get invited to more cocktail parties that way.
    Besides, winning means you actually have to govern, which is a lot of work; and you get blamed for what you do.

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