How about Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment: Though shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Just this week a highly overrated and highly overpaid political consultant by the name of Karl Rove stood this principle on its head by announcing his super-pacs plan to run attack ads against conservative Republicans beginning in the 2014 midterm election primary season, in effect subsidizing Democratic Party philosophy and candidates in their general elections.
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So maybe its time to revise Reagans 11th Commandment. Maybe something like this: Dont bother working hard for the candidates who represent true Republican and conservative values. Let the elitist Republican establishment do your thinking for you. After all, look how well they performed with their selections and spending in 2012.
It's time to update some old proverbs
Exclusive: Joseph Farah revises Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment
Published: 10 hours ago
by JOSEPH FARAH
It?s time to update some old proverbs
Id like to add my candidate for updating: Ronald Reagan also said Nominate the most conservative Republican that can win.
As much as I loved RR a huge cancer is growing on his well-intentioned advice. Guys like Karl Rove and media liberals decide who is the most conservative Republican. My update would say Tea Partiers should nominate a conservative win or lose. They sure as hell cannot do any worse than establishment Republicans have been doing lately.
Conservatives/conservatism lose even when Roves Republicans win. Ultimately, the most conservative Republican that can win is nothing more than Roves opinion. That opinion means zilch if conservatives do not think a candidate is conservative enough. The long running con job that said any Republican is better than a Democrat is not working anymore.
Bottom line: Conservatives should treat Rove like a race track tout; i.e., adopt the motto of knowledgeable horse players I prefer making my own mistakes.
Even before Karl Rove did a Pearl Harbor on conservatives/conservatism there was a lot of whining in the government media about Tea Partiers destroying the Republican party, blah, blah, blah. That never made sense to me. Republicans and Democrats are united in their love of the federal governments power; destroy either one and you destroy the other.
NOTE: Roves Republicans have no trouble compromising with Democrats. Maybe its time for them to compromise with Tea Party conservatives.
Finally, how is it that Rove and his media pals can live with every Democrat pervert, crook, and traitor in the US Senate, yet they scream Armageddon the minute a true conservative gets a nomination?