I think the real split is between the “Tea Party” and the “Cocktail Party”.
The Tea Party does not need much definition. It’s the same one that has been all over the news since 2009 and the movement’s aims and agenda is pretty well known.
The Cocktail Party includes the RINO set, but should primarily be defined as those people who have shifted their allegiance from the people who voted them into office, to their “peers”, and by necessity the government which provides them with their status as members of the Georgetown cocktail party set.
The Cocktail Party set is insidious and beguiling. Fresh faces, full of virtue and determined to do right as defined by the people who voted them into office, arrive in Washington where the Cocktail Party elite immediately goes to work breaking down their idealism and corrupting them into malleable new members of the “elite”.
Old whores like Dole, McCain and others (and yes I use that offensive word intentionally) were co-opted by the Cocktail Party so long ago, they probably don’t even remember their idealistic youth.
Kansas, the “solid Republican State” is really a state where the “moderate” republicans would actually be democrats anywhere else...
Populism and compromise have got us where we are. that’s why we manage to elect so many democrat and weak republican governors.
Wake up people! Quit wishing you were Iowa or Minnesota.
No compromise with socialist/populist progressives.
Nice mini rant.. the Cocktail Party is indeed where many get addicted to government...
Government can and does act like a drug to some people..
Addicted is what they get..
Same process must be present in LOCAL and STATE government as well..
This is an interesting concept to ruminate over..
GOVERNMENT ADDICTION!!!!!!...