‘With These GOP Strategists, Our Victory At Cannae Is Assured,’ Said Paullus
Posted on | November 2, 2011 | 26 Comments
by Smitty
Republicans won’t need to put a candidate like Sarah Palin on the presidential ticket this year, veteran party strategist Charlie Black says, because the candidates are already conservative enough.
Asked at National Journal’s Election Preview on Tuesday whether he thought the party might name a vice presidential candidate like Sarah Palin, whose addition to the GOP 2008 presidential ticket excited conservatives — but also turned off independent voters — Black argued such a pick won’t be necessary given the current crop of presidential candidates.
“We don’t have any moderates running,” Black said. “I don’t think there will be any need to do philosophical balance.”
Also impressive: the way these GOP strategists have helped keep the Ruling Class at bay for the last century.
Title reference: Battle of Cannae
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November 2nd, 2011 @ 10:59 am
If Robert Stacy McCain went to the meeting of the GOP council of elders… it would sort of be like this.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 11:03 am
The GOP can field a conservative candidate for POTUS, and maybe even win; but without strongly conservative candidates for Senate and House, the double envelopment is assured.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 11:10 am
You are right about the Senate and House…of course it is all over for Herman Cain. Ms. Dodd has spoken.
I thought the Spartan oracle was supposed to be cute? No wonder the GOP Ephors are in a foul mood.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 11:11 am
Nominating Romney is more dangerous than a lot of people want to think
about. If he is the nominee- especially if he raps it up by February –
he better win the general, or there will be an all out civil war within
the GOP. Conservatives, especially the Tea Party, will have their
credibility become the issue rather than simply the establishment GOP. A
group can only claim to be effective advocates without any results for
so long. Romney can mitigate this by throwing a few bones, but he
doesn’t seem very inclined to do so. All indications are that he will
run a cautious general campaign ready to concede controversial points.
Conservatives don’t want pragmatism and bipartisanship, they want a
fight, and have been wanting it for a long time.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 11:47 am
You did mean ‘Dowd’, but the Freudian slip shows nicely.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:03 pm
Those typos amazing me sometimes–it is almost like my keyboard is a ouija board.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
“Romney can mitigate this by throwing a few bones, but he
doesn’t seem very inclined to do so. All indications are that he will
run a cautious general campaign ready to concede controversial points. ”
McCain?
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:07 pm
If Romney wins this thing he is going to have to earn it. Frankly it is going to be a battle. I do not trust Romney, but I also know chances of him skating in and getting crowned are not likely either. He is strong but his victory is hardly guaranteed.
Cain’s problem is not this BS scandal. I predict that is just a temporary distraction. Cain’s problem is convincing enough voters he is competent to be CIC and leader of the free world. He cannot afford goofy press flubs. He needs to start convincing the skeptics on our side, just like Romney has to convince conservatives.
But I predict this, whoever wins this thing will generally be supported against Obama.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:24 pm
I hope not. That would be a mistake.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:25 pm
Is there anyone naive enough to believe anything Clorox Obama says on anything?
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:30 pm
Brak has lost 20% of the retards who elected him. He’s picked no one up. Do the math.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 12:46 pm
Some background on this genius Republican advisor named Black:
– served as chief campaign adviser for Senator John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election…. (wonder if he advised McCain to quit campaign and go to Washington to look like a fool)
– Black and his firm were also early supporters of Iraqi politician Ahmend Chalabi as early as 1999, and received $200,000 to $300,000 from the U.S. government to provide consulting services to Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress….. (wow, another great choice of action)
Black is a hard core Washington insider and lobbyist and advisor… continually sucking at the political money hind teat.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
My posts are no longer posting. I am not sure why.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 2:00 pm
Romney winning the nomination isn’t terribly dangerous. It just means Obama wins.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 2:43 pm
But given this,
…I’d be surprised if he doesn’t think he could get away with it.
Or Lamar Alexander, or Lindsey Graham.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:17 pm
If elected, Romney will not defund or repeal Obamneycare. Not only would that invalidate the Massachusetts health mess he refuses to , it would gut its funding. He won’t do it.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:22 pm
What could be worse
ORomney as POTUS
Boehner as Speaker
McConnel as Majority Leader
or
OHbama as TOTUS
a Conservative with guts as Speaker
A Conservative with guts as Majority Leader
I pick door #2,,,
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:25 pm
If palin, I use the small for her gutless decision thus reenforcing the quit the gov job decison, as vp would be a winner for Cain/
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:25 pm
Trouble is how to you get to vote for speaker and majority leader? You need to sweep almost every house and senate race with enough conservatives that they would then vote for such a person, and even then it would not be guaranteed.
We want to defeat Obama and have conservatives as speaker and majority leader. The battle for the primaries are now, go out and support a conservative alternative to Romney.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:33 pm
Actually Ccoffer, Obama still has a solid support of 45%. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/ He needs to persuade approximately another 5.01% to win. Maybe even less than that if there is any sort of credible third party challenge that affects the outcome in a borderline state or two.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:34 pm
They make me sick.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 3:47 pm
Stacy VS. the RNC!
November 2nd, 2011 @ 4:49 pm
He already said he’d repeal it. What do you want, a contract signed in blood?
November 2nd, 2011 @ 6:28 pm
It’s not your imagination.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 6:46 pm
While I follow your line of thinking I disagree with your conclusions.
If Obama is reelected the whole show go in the tank. Business will have no confidence that any progress will be made on the economy. As another downward spiral accelerates Treasury and the Fed will send people to congress to explain how bad things really are, similar to the TARP fiasco. The Republican leadership who will have been soiling themselves continuously will take the bait and cave utterly, Obama will assume that has the mandate he’s always thought he had and quadruple down on his agenda. There will be nothing to stop him. Our Arabic or Chinese speaking grandchildren will be using broken bits of bathroom porcelain to scrape hides for clothing.
November 2nd, 2011 @ 6:47 pm
For a start.