I can't rep you again so the best I can do isMourdock is unelectable because a comment he made which was grossly twisted into something he did not say at the eleventh hour when he did not have time to recover from it? That was a political drive-by shooting and not a matter of substance and the fact that he had a solid lead up to that point should have told you something.
Likewise, you might recall that McStupid's numbers were in the toilet bowl until Palin joined the ticket. There would have been a greater chance of a GOP win with her at the top of the ticket and McStupid in Arizona. The causes for McCain losing that election were a combination of McCain, Obama benefiting from national media who were shamelessly backing him, and votes cast by dead folks, small children, foreign nationals, fictional characters, cats, dogs, and horses.
On point where you are correct is that it is a false choice. Having foisted upon us two candidates one of whom is marginally less bad than the other is a false choice. Having the teleprompter, aside from a few inflammatory issues used to stir people up, say the same thing regardless of who is reading it is a false choice. One of the reasons for this is that *some* among us have been brainwashed into believing that we have to accept this as the only alternative to having no choice at all. We need to stop putting up with this s**t now. The Dems don't put of candidates who are marginally less conservative than Sean Hannity, so why should we accept candidates who are marginally less liberal than Rachel Maddow?
When was the last time a true leftist (as opposed to a scared sheep) gave a f**k about you, your opinion, your rights, or even your continued existence?
Stop and think about this. Primary turnout is generally significantly lower than general election turnout, and those turning out tend to be the most party-loyal and most inclined to follow the establishment. In national elections, the early primaries are generally in the more liberal states. The moderates are bought and paid for. The conservatives have to scratch for every penny. By the time the primaries are held in states where they would do well, they have already been run out of money and quit. Playing against a stacked deck is a difficult thing to do.
I don't need their help demonizing people who demonize themselves. Sarah Brady was perhaps the most outspoken about the goal of anti-gun laws being the establishment of a socialist state, but she is hardly alone. Look at the whole picture of the gun grabber. The MFSB who is putting up the most money to attack guns is the same guy who wants to dictate what size of Coke you can drink. Now, tell me again how it isn't about control. Those who are supporting them are often idiots who are sold on the nice warm and fuzzy marketing the lefties peddle, you know, making sure kids don't starve (even if you eventually run out of other people's money to **** away on people who make the system a way of life), keeping them safe from the bogeyman (even if this is a very false sense of security). The bottom line is that leftist politics is a two-tiered system in which those at the top cannot with any sliver of intellectual honesty be argued not to be in it for control of others. If you doubt this, review: They are sufficiently open about being socialists, which socialism does not provide a free society. They want to control what you eat, what you drink, what you drive, where you live, how much water your toilet flushes, what you may or may not do with your property, and this is just what comes to mind at the moment. Tell me again how Hannity is brainwashing me about these people.
Exactly, and they are being sold the idea that if they put up with it for a little while, it will eventually get reversed. Well, we've been waiting to receive our half of the benefit of 'compromise' since 1934. I am not holding my breath and turning 16 shades of purple waiting on it. Same thing with being told to accept 'moderate' GOP nominees and maybe we'll get a conservative next time. The only time next time got here was with Reagan and that was done to the shock and ire of the party who had anointed Bush I, whose personal attack on Reagan's economic policy became the standard leftist hatchet phrase for the duration of Reagan's presidency.