Monday, August 19, 2013

Moderates Need Not Apply ... J. D. Longstreet

I
have no clue, at this writing, whom the next republican candidate for
President of the USA will be. But I do know this: for the GOP to even
be in the running, their candidate had better be conservative -- and conservative to the core.

Christie
and Brown can save their time and money. Rubio has a snowball's chance
in Hades. He's finished so far as the conservative core of the GOP is
concerned. The immigration debacle showed him for what he really is and
conservatives do not like being duped. He's done.

If the GOP insists on offering up another moderate he/she will go the way of Dole, McCain, and Romney.

Ted
Cruz? I don't think Cruz is qualified to be President of the USA. I
mean by the circumstances of his birth, understand. I think he'd
probably make a hell of a president, but I don't expect he'll ever see
the inside of the Oval Office -- except as a visitor.

OK. I can
see some of you think that just because the democrats have an illegal
poser in the office as US President that the republicans can do the same
thing. Well, dear reader, you are W R O N G!

I am in my eighth
decade of living in the United States and one thing I have learned about
US politics -- above all others -- is this: There are two sets
of morals and two sets of laws governing the democrats and the
republicans. Basically, it works like this: Anything the democrats can
get away with is moral and legal. Everything the republicans do is, at
best, questionable and probably immoral AND illegal. If you keep that in mind you will seldom go wrong in 21st century America.

If
you have been fooling yourself into believing the democrats are going
to allow a conservative candidate with an actual chance to beat Hillary
to get his name on a ballot for President of the US then please, allow
me to disabuse you of that deeply mistaken belief. It will not happen.

Had
the GOP had the intestinal fortitude God gave a gnat, Obama would have
been challenged and his name scrubbed from the list of candidates before
the 2008 election. But they didn't - and we now have a communist
centered government in the (temporarily) United States of America.

A couple of things on the 2016 election:

One: Hillary will be the Democratic Party candidate.

Two: She will win.

(A hurried disclaimer -- or caveat -- is in order, I believe: "... barring an act of God.")

No
matter if the GOP runs a moderate or a conservative a host of GOP
voters WILL stay home. That is a given. The party is that riven ...
and don't forget, the GOP is leaderless, too.

Then there is this: The GOP has already lost the 2016 Electoral College vote.

Myra
Adams , in a column at The Daily Beast dot com, says the GOP’s biggest
problem is that Democrats start with 246 electoral votes.

The
American electorate spends little (if any) time trying to decipher and
understand the electoral college and how it is the Electoral Vote that
decides elections for President in America.

There are a total of
538 electoral votes. The candidate receiving 270 of those votes wins --
period! And yes, it is possible, indeed it has happened a number of
times, that a candidate can win the popular vote amongst the electorate
and STILL LOSE THE ELECTION -- BECAUSE HIS OPPOSITION WON THE 270 ELECTORAL VOTES.

When
you seriously analyze the electoral vote and add the number of
electoral votes from the "blue" states you will quickly see that the
democrats begin each Presidential Election cycle with over 90% of the
electoral college already assured.

Ms. Adams explains it this way:
"After totaling the electoral votes in all the terminally blue states,
an inconvenient math emerges, providing even a below average Democrat
presidential candidate a potential starting advantage of 246. Here are
the states and their votes:

So.
You can see an awful lot of work remains for the GOP to field a winning
candidate for 2016. It will be even more daunting if, as I suspect,
Hillary is the dem's candidate.

Conservatives should not
fool themselves. Fielding a moderate candidate will not be a winning
answer nor will fielding a candidate open to legal challenge in the
courts as to his qualifications for the office of President.

The GOP needs leadership and it needs it badly.

This
is a defining moment for the GOP. I am of the opinion that should the
republicans go with another moderate candidate, they will create a third
party as a result. That "third party" could be an entirely new party,
or -- it could turn out to be the Republican Party itself!

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