Where do you get this silly ****? This is why no one takes you seriously. A grand jury, the man was a ****ing advisor......do you understand what that means? You people with your Rove-on-the-brain.
The Buckley (pbuh) Rule is "Support The Most Conservative Candidate Who Can Win".
From what I have found this appears to be the goal of this 'new' project. What am I missing?
From what I have found this appears to be the goal of this 'new' project. What am I missing?
I would need to look into the group.
If it's looking to try and help moderate candidates in states where a "far right" candidate has literally no realistic chance of even finishing in a respectable position, let alone winning, then I can understand and somewhat support that.
If it's looking to try and help moderate candidates in states where a "far right" (your words) candidate has a fair to good chance of winning, but the "moderate" has a better chance, then I would oppose it.
I'd rather have some of my views represented then a gaurantee that none of my views would be represented....
but I'd rather gamble on a realistic shot at having most of my views represented, over a good shot of having just some of them.
From looking into some of Rove's statements in the past...my issue with him is that often it seemed (if memory serves) he would push for "moderates" (which is generally big government republicans in Rove speak) in situations where a more conservative candidate could still realistically win.
The Buckley (pbuh) Rule is "Support The Most Conservative Candidate Who Can Win".
We have a real issue currently within the broad "conservative" movement between people who think you can cut out the second qualifier, and people who think that you have to cut out the first. Rove is no better than those who primary a Republican when their replacement can't win if his goal is simply to replace tea-party-esque candidates with more moderate ones on the argument that "moderate = victory". Republicans would be cursing Senator Christ rather than following Senator Rubio had that logic been applied.
The Conservative Victory Project is an effort by Karl Rove to, essentially, support more moderate republican candidates over more far right candidates(my wording). There is a ton of information on the group, and I as a democrat am probably the wrong one to try and explain what exactly it does. A quick google search will give you all the information you could want. Many republicans, notable Gingrich, are very opposed to this effort. I am curious as to whether the conservative posters here are in favor of this groups goals, or opposed, and why.
I ask that only conservatives vote in the poll please, though of course comments are welcome from every one.
King though, is by far the favorite to win the primary it this point, assuming they both run, which seems likely. It makes sense to me to attempt to take the provocative candidate with little chance of winning out of the race.
Rove is smart. He is going to be getting a cut of a lot of money with this one.
But he's not going to accomplish anything. I'm willing to bet that at least three-quarters of the candidates he backs go on to lose their respective primaries. The psychology of the modern conservative voter is based around the view that he is victimized by institutional forces. Rove is an institutional force.
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