Rove declares war on Tea
party
Breitbart. Om
– Ben Shapiro – 2/3/2013
Yesterday, the New
York Times reported that the “biggest donors in the Republican Party” have
joined forces with Karl Rove and Steven J. Law, president of American
Crossroads, to create the Conservative Victory Project. The Times reports that
this new group will dedicate itself to “recruit seasoned candidates and protect
Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party
enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s effort to
win control of the Senate.”
But it is American
Crossroads and its ilk that have run the GOP into the ground. Spending millions
of dollars on useless 30,000-ft. advertising campaigns during the last election
cycle, training candidates to soften conservatism in order to appeal to
“moderates,” blowing up the federal budget under George W. Bush as a bipartisan
tactic – all of those strategies led the party to a disastrous defeat in 2012.
The Tea Party, which may
nominate losers from time to time, also brought the Republicans their historic
2010 Congressional victory. If Tea Party candidates lose, it’s because they
weren’t good candidates.
If GOP establishment
candidates lose, it’s because they weren’t good conservatives. The choice for
actual conservatives should be easy.
But Law is no judge of that.
Neither is Rove. Their advice led to the epic Romney defeat, in which
conservatives were told to vote for Romney in the primary since he was the only
candidate who could win.
In truth, conservatism wins
elections so long as the messenger doesn’t implode. Rove’s view, however, is
that conservatism takes a back seat to the best quasi-conservative messenger.
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