He didn’t compete in Democratic strongholds because he barely had the money to compete in the battlegrounds. More than half the house will be occupied, come 2009, by Democrats who won their 2008 congressional election by more than 15 points. When you’re facing that kind of onslaught, you don’t throw money at races you’re going to lose by 35 points.

And and opportunity for shameless self promotion!

Broken link can be found here:

http://www.redstate.com/rottdawg/2008/12/21/tcots-co-founder-asks-mike-duncan-to-step-aside/

To lose because you skirt the truth rather than offend your opponent is inexcusable.

If you’re afraid to offend, it means you’ll never win.

Liberals are offended by the proposition that the individual can be better trusted to spend his own money to his own benefit than a faceless bureaucrat in some government agency.

Liberals are offended by the notion that parents will make better choices about their children’s education than government.

Liberals are offended by the belief that the free market is a better distributor of resources and provides the best environment for innovation and improvement in standards of living.

Liberals are offended by the fact that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual the right of self-defense to protect themselves, their families and their property … and as a check against government.

Liberals are offended by people who believe that a child in the womb is a human being whose life has worth.

In other words, if Republicans (and this goes quadruple for “moderates” and “Bipartisans”) continue to place any importance on not offending Democrats, because of some stupid concern for “Bipartisanship” or “comity”, we’re going to spend another 40 years in the wilderness, and we’ll deserve it.

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 To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
      - Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

We need a candidate, a leader who says ” bring it on “. Enough wussing around.

1. To lose to the party that controls Congress who has an approval rating in single digits is a disgrace!
2. To have the majority of voters vote for the Democrats because they think Republicans still control Congress when they haven’t in two years is inexcusable!
3. To start out and election telling everyone how bad things are for Republicans and we can’t win with a President in office who has been there for 7 years and still expect people to contribute after you’ve convinced them the election is a lost cause is shear idiocy!
4. To spend 2 years preaching that we have to moderate our message so we can reach out to moderates and independents and end up not only failing to increase moderate votes for Republicans but alienate your base at the same time is mindless and stupid!
5. To sit back now and make excuses and blame your miserable performance on Bush and refuse to take any responsibility for your pathetic incompetence is the very example and proof of what’s wrong with this party

The only thing more enraging to me than you think you deserve another 2 to 4 years to make a mess of this party is the fact that you haven’t been run out of Washington on a rail!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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I have no clue why he’d even consider running again, unless it’s for power. Sure can’t be his wanting to lead.
Need to have more a tech-savvy PR person in there.

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