Phyllis Schlafly at CPAC said grassroots must defeat the establishment

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3/16/13, "Phyllis Schlafly CPAC: Mitt Romney, John McCain A 'Bunch Of Losers'," Huffington Post, Foley

""We've had the establishment pick another loser for us," she said of Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, at CPAC. "The fight we have, and the fight I want you to engage in, is the establishment against the grassroots. The establishment has given us a whole series of losers. Bob Dole and John McCain. Mitt Romney."

"Why is it that the establishment has given us this bunch of losers?" she added later.

Schlafly, like some other speakers at CPAC, insisted that Washington, D.C., consultants were in part to blame for Republican losses in 2012. Karl Rove, who founded the super PAC American Crossroads, drew her particular ire for backing so many candidates who lost.

"If you had a football coach with that kind of score, I don't think you'd see him the next year," she said of Rove."...


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