the more things change…the more they stay the same.

What’s worse is Rubio and Paul voted to keep him as NRSC Chair

the exact opposite view of this article. Instead of seeing this an attack on DeMint I believe John C. Is inviting DeMint-Redstate and others to provide input and comment on candidate recruitement.

1. Has anyone noticed all the spectulation on candidates for 2012 senate seats? There is a myth in candidate recruitment that people just get calls out of the blue from DC “hey maybe you should run for US senate”. Oh get real. Ambition is in the DNA of every politician. The NRSC does not so much recruit as explains and encourages.

2. I mentioned earlier this year as the NRSC was attacked for not recruiting top guys in races in HI-NY-VT-OR. Yup we had second tier folks in at least five states this year. Gillibrand polled mostly under 50% and we did not attract a top candidate. Yet when the NRSC did encourage and support top flight candidates in 2010 we attacked them-in some cases- for not being conservative enough. Exactly what do we want the NRSC to do?

3. I think John C. is telling the conservatives he wants to listen to their concerns. I might add in 2012 we will see less candidate recruitment from the NRSC as the playing field and political atomsphere looks to be more favorable to the GOP

is one of the primary jobs of the NRSC, isn’t it? The issues we have are (a) endorsing in a contested primary — even if one of those contenders is the recruited candidate, and (b) recruiting RINOs.

(b) is easily fixed in concept — just recruit more conservative candidates. Maybe, I dunno, ask a few local Republican voter types what they think about prospective recruits, rather than asking local Republican political hacks and DIABLOs.

(a) seems easy for Cornyn to do — in races for open or Democrat-held seats, where they did no recruiting. But…where there is an R incumbent, it’s not surprising the NRSC supports the incumbent against any primary challenge — the NRSC is a creature of the elected R Senators…I don’t like it, but that’s what the Senators created it to do.

The tricky bit is what to do when the NRSC recruits a candidate for an open or D seat, and a grassroots candidate challenges in the primary. It’s not a very good recruitment strategy to say “Hi, Mr. Accomplished and Popular State Congressman. Would you consider running against evil Democrat Senator Moriarty? Oh, and BTW, if you have a conservative or grassroots primary challenger, we won’t endorse or support you; you’d be on your own. But hey, if you DO win the primary, we’ll be back in time for the General.”

I think the only REAL solution to this problem for the NRSC is that they should be a LOT more careful in recruiting candidates in the first place: recruit somebody who is well-liked by the Republican base *voters* (as distinguished from the state Republican party apparatus) and you won’t have a primary challenge.

If *that’s* what Cornyn is trying to do, by inviting DeMint and other conservatives into the *recruiting* process — to prevent the NRSC from making boneheaded recruiting mistakes — then that’s probably a good thing.

I have my doubts that this is actually Cornyn’s intention, tho.

There is no Constitutional basis for career politicians like John Cornyn to choose which candidates are to be supported. His committee goes out and recruits career politicians then expects the people to support their candidate. Under the Constitution it is the people who have the authority to select their own representatives, not a committee of the U. S. Senate. We would be much better off if everyone would refuse to send money to the National Republican Party. We have the right to pick our candidates, then send our money directly to the candidate of our choice.
Wayne Leeper
www.alandcalledamerica.com

This man cannot be allowed to continue to exist in the Republican camp. He is awful! He is epitome of the Ruling Class donk. He must go!

” Do what you’re told and do not defy me. “

He is just another politician who doesn’t like those pesky voters getting in the way of things.
I’ll bet he likes the Tea Party just about as much as Lisa Murkowski does and he is no doubt very happy about what happened in Alaska.

At this point it should have been clear to the GOP Senate that what they have been doing could not possibly be more in left field than it is.

Unfortunately, it isn’t.

The core of all that is pitiful in the GOP Senate won’t let go. And there is enough of the rotten core left to cause a lot of damage!

The new group of Senators will do great things but it will be hard for them and they can only do so much being brand new. The NRSC ensured that some of the other Conservative candidates who easily could have won didn’t….and Cornyn will do all he can to ensure that Conservative candidates continue to not win.

And the core rotten group has their caucus back – Cornyn, McCain, Murkowski, McConnell, Trigger Sisters, DICK Lugar, and others.

Obama and the Dems are jumping for joy here. They know that with this disgraceful group in place……the DemComm work toward the destruction of the country will be much easier. Soros and Podesta can put their money back toward voter fraud and covert injection of disruption/Communism. They won’t have to put much money toward running a legal Dem candidate. Cornyn will insure the GOP candidates are bad enough.

The problem for Cornyn and McConnell, and their disgrace to humanity core, is that the American people are not going to allow them to continue the damage that THEY have allowed and created.

Cornyn turned Florida into a swamp hole infestation that is only now beginning to unravel itself. Much of the Florida State Legislature turned into Murkowskis, McCains, Specters, and Lugars under the Crist…..and we have CORNYN to thank for that.

As a matter of fact Crist is laughing his head off because he is now a lobby person and he will no doubt be lobbying for Obama. I wouldn’t be surprised though, if Cornyn didn’t hire Crist for his head NRSC Staff person.

CRIST was on the CORNYN/NRSC front page as the MODEL Republican for MONTHS after it was clear that Rubio was Florida’s choice …..and CRIST stayed on the front page for months, and months, and months, and months AFTER Cornyn “knew (not)” that he shouldn’t be there. CORNYN = ZERO INTEGRITY.

If the GOP Senate is choosing their NRSC leader to be Cornyn, the GOP Senate needs to be clear that there will be many, many, many, many, many. primaries coming their way. Many.

Even with ALL the work that has to get accomplished immediately to save the country, work needs to begin to replace MANY in the GOP Senate ……NOW. I repeat……NOW.

I am channeling my Cold Warrior a bit here, but a stronger local republican party is a more constructive route than primarying Cornyn. Now I must add my I know little about politics, so I could be wrong here.

to “clean house” in the Senate. These people are entrenched in their power and in their Washington elitism. Even before the elections, it was clear that the House of Representatives was “getting the message” that the conservative wave was coming while the Senat GOP stuck its head in the sand. I honestly cannot determine if it is plain stupidity to foolish arrogance on the part of the GOP Senate. All I know is that Cornyn and those like him MUST go. We must purge the party of these types.

Well, rather than complain about Big John, I hope that conservatives are going to go out and recruit some good candidates. It was a real mix last time; Angle, O’Donnel and Miller were absolute FAIL as candidates. Buck wasn’t too bad, but he could have won his race if he’s have stuck to the economy and kept his damn mouth shut about the other stuff. I’m happy to support conservatives if they are good candidates like Marco Rubio and Ron Johnston of if the state is a gimmie like Utah, but I do NOT want to see races lost because of FAIL candidates.

Hey Erick, I seem to remember just yesterday on Twitter you were singing Cornyn’s praises in getting a bunch of Conservatives elected. You were wrong then as Cornyn was forced against his will to support Conservative Candidates once it looked like they might win. Initially Cornyn supported Conservative traitors (Murky, Crist, and the Conn. RINO). So, this begs the question: which way is the wind blowing today?

Look at Delaware, Colorado, and Nevada. All three of these were winnable had extremist elements not put up a lunatic in each state. Instead of the powerful symbolism of knocking off the Majority Leader, he managed to win for one reason only: Sharron Angle belongs in a mental institution. Instead of taking the Vice President’s Senate seat in a cakewalk, an unabashed liberal Democrat won because the can’t miss Republican candidate was knocked out in favor of someone so stark raving mad that she needed to remind voters that she was, in fact, not a witch. And instead of adding on to two big House wins in Colorado with a highly qualified candidate like Jane Norton, we wound up with Ken Buck, a guy so awful he couldn’t even beat a stiff like Michael Bennett.

Moderate Republicans and pragmatists do not need to be thought of as being incompatible with conservatives. Yet that’s exactly what happened, and good for Cornyn for realizing that.

WE recruited new blood in the Senate and sent them there to listen to us, not John Cornyn. We’re going to do the same thing in 2012 whether John Cornyn likes it or NOT.

John Cornyn himself does not listen to his constituents. I will give him credit that he does answer your correspondence but it’s usually full of bufoonery and sidesteps.

There’s already a movement in Texas taking aim at finding us a senator, actually TWO of them, willing to go to Washington and represent the people instead of the party’s interests. He doesn’t get it that if senators listen to the people, then the people will take care of the party’s posterity in Washington DC.

It’s Cornyn vs. DeMint. Cornyn represents the plutocracy, Demint is standing up for the rest of our republic.

I just got finishing spanking Senator Kay, along with many others, over Earmarks and will have to go back for NPR and now this? I try to be supportive of my Brother and Sister Texans but Mr. Coryn needs to WAKE UP!

The reason why we don’t have 3 additional Senate seats is almost purely because of candidate quality. That’s really frustrating, and something needs to change. (and the answer is not just higher turnout, we shouldn’t be cutting it that close and 2010 was a blowout for Republicans)

I do think Cornyn has been incompetent (along with Steele), but I disagree that the NRSC as an organization should be completely hands off when it comes to candidate selection,

It’s all on a case-by-case basis, but when someone tries to say run for a Senate seat and has ZERO elected experience, that should set off warnings that this person could blow a Senate seat for us.

I can definitely think of exceptions, but shouldn’t a committed Conservative work his way up the ladder first? How about running for State Senate first? Just because a kid might have some talent doesn’t mean he goes right into the Major League, he needs seasoning in the minors first.

I honestly do not believe that Cornyn wakes up in the morning and tries to torpedo conservative Senate candidates. I actually believe he is a conservative, and wants to see our movement succeed. He’s made some bad calls (like with Rubio) but I think he wants candidates that can win, and sometimes the candidate that can actually win the race isn’t the most conservative one in the primary.

Doing thr same things over and over again hoping for different results?

What? He doesn’t want different results? Oh… then he just likely a corrupt RINO who needs to go then…

No, it’s not enough to retaliate by pulling all ground support. See Colorado, Nevada, Washington.

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”

Including the following Republicans:

* Jeff Sessions, Alabama, Ranking Member
* Orrin Hatch, Utah
* Chuck Grassley, Iowa
* Jon Kyl, Arizona
* Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
* John Cornyn, Texas
* Tom Coburn, Oklahoma

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/

The NRSC can do all the recruiting they want – and I hope they do, doing it well.

BUT KEEP OUT OF THE PRIMARIES !!!

AND SUPPORT THE WINNERS THEREOF.

Angle, Buck & Miller were all winnable races. Rubio won *despite* Cornyn, as did Toomey & others.

If there is any lesson to be learned from this election, it is to stop putting money into the Left Coast People’s Republik of Flakes, Fruits & Nuts. If Fiorina & Whitman couldn’t win over babs babble and jerry spacecadet in 2010, then it is time to abandon it to the mexicans, jackasses, parasites & lemmings (who will finish turning it into a new Bangladesh inside of a decade) and bring the few Americans remaining there to other parts of this country.

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