The GOP Establishment's War on Conservatives Continues

Once again, the GOP establishment seems to be telling conservatives to sit down and shut up and just to nominate whoever they choose will be most "electable", whether or not they share our conservative principles. Check out Jennifer Rubin's piece yesterday attacking the Club for Growth and Jim DeMint (who she refers to as "far right" like extreme leftists do) for not supporting Shelley Moore Capito for the soon to be vacated Senate seat in West Virginia:

After years in which prominent Republicans courted her to run for the Senate, the popular Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) announced today that she will run for the Senate in 2014, when Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) may retire. She has statewide name recognition and a 70.27 lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union.
But lo and behold the Club for Growth — which backed such stellar (not!) Senate candidates as Richard Mourdock in 2012 and Sharron Angle in 2010 and losers like Mark Neumann (who did a good job beating up eventual nominee Tommy Thompson in the Wisconsin Senate primary) and Don Stenberg of Nebraska — comes out to blast Capito for voting for "big government."

Oh my, a whole 70.27 lifetime rating from the ACU?!? Clearly the Club for Growth doesn't know what they are talking about as she is clearly a principled conservative! Or maybe they do. John McCain, who was a darling of the left at times and is by no means a small government Republican, has a lifetime rating of 82.52. So Shelley Capito is by far more liberal than John McCain. The worst thing is that in 2011, her rating was only 60!

I also love how Jennifer Rubin brings up Richard Mourdock and Sharron Angle (while skipping Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who the Club for Growth also supported). Oh the establishment has never backed candidates who have lost general elections. Ha! Mitt Romney was essentially crammed down our throats under the guise of electability. Fox News, National Review and hacks like Jennifer Rubin would constantly nitpick over everything in a conservatives history but would leave Romney, who had Romneycare and other skeletons completely alone. Remember when they made an issue about what was written on a rock on land that Rick Perry leased? Or Newt's consultant contracts? Jennifer Rubin even attacked Herman Cain's 999 plan because it made the tax system less progressive (as if that was a bad thing!). Then they screamed socialism when Newt attacked Romney's Bain history, attacks that might have prepared Romney for the general if his lackeys hadn't done all the heavy lifting for him in the primaries. I also love the fact that she seems to assail the conservative candidate for "beating up" the establishment candidate, Tommy Thompson in the Wisconsin Senate primary, as if that is what cost him the election. See, conservatives should just take what we get in those back room deals. If the establishment has been courting someone for years to run, well they just know better. We only cause trouble when we try to have a say. Guess what? Thompson lost mainly because the establishment candidate at the top of the ticket didn't get the base to come out. Romney's received 46.1% of the vote in Wisconsin and Thompson got 45.9% with his percentage only being lower because of the 2% that went for the Libertarian candidate. 2 lame establishment candidates lose in the general and somehow the establishment can't possibly be to blame. Nope, it's the conservatives fault!

Anyway, here is more from Jennifer Rubin:

Among her supposed sins are voting for the budget of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), rather than the Republican Study Committee's budget, and No Child Left Behind legislation, which numerous conservative Republicans supported.

Oh see, we are just being unreasonable now. It can't possibly be a sin to vote for Paul Ryan's budget can it? That nonsensical budget that reformed little and would have raised taxes on the middle class. And No Child Left Behind? Everyone was doing it, it couldn't possibly be wrong! Oh yes it could. Irresponsible Republicans are as much or even more at fault for the mess we are in than Democrats because Republicans are supposed to know better and campaigned on smaller government, not more federal government largesse. And of course Jennifer Rubin is, as usual, being dishonest about Shelley Capito's voting record. There are far more problems than just those two. As I mentioned before, her ACU rating in 2011 was only 60%. That means that 40% of the time, she voted either for liberal legislation or against conservative legislation. The ACU rating is based on 25 votes, so her 60% score means that she voted the wrong way on 10 of them. Let's take a look at how she voted:

Voted against cutting funding for the wasteful Legal Services Corporation
Against expanding the federal pay freeze to raises due to seniority, meaning she is in the pocket of SEIU and government workers at the expense of the rest of us
Against a measure that would have limited funding for enforcement of "prevailing wage" requirements on federal projects, which always inflate the cost of these projects. Again, she is clearly in the pocket of the unions and government employees.
Against the conservative Republican Study Committee Budget
Against barring funds for abortion training
Against forcing the government to try terrorists before military commissions
Against eliminating the Foreign Agricultural Service
Against eliminating wasteful electric car subsidies
For raising the debt limit and for the omnibus appropriations bills which were negotiated in secret

She's also voted for all the bailouts and doesn't seem to have many government programs she doesn't like. Do we really need more Republicans like her? Or should we at least try to get a real conservative in office?

Jennifer Rubin finished her piece by quoting a Republican insider who used to work for Cantor, supporting Capito and criticizing the Club for Growth. Oh my, she found an inside the beltway type that supports her way of thinking. Shocking.

The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is clearly on. The establishment wants to move the party even further to the left by nominating more RINO's and by attacking conservatives (like Rand Paul who was criticized recently by one of Jennifer Rubin's former colleagues for not attending a speech by Bibi because he was busy filibustering legislation and for not disavowing his own father).

I am quite convinced now - the GOP is beyond salvage.

What if all registered Republicans switched to ‘Independent’?

It really looks like GOP is on the other side plotting against us. Hard to believe they are just spineless. They will not fight voter fraud, they will not hold the lawless obama and holder accountable (F&F, Benghazi...), above all, they will not challenge obama’ s ineligibility to be the president knowing full well he is NOT eligible.......
Maybe it is time to destroy the GOP.
How do we destroy the GOP?
What if all registered Republicans switched to ‘Independent’?
Crazy idea? Impossible?
May be.
Just envision this scenario - no more registered Republicans -
GOP will be shocked;
The Ds will be confused - they won’t know how to reach these massive I(s). They fear the I(s) because the I(s) decide the winner. They ignore all other parties.

Assuming there is another election -
if all the new INDEPENDENTs unite to push their own candidate - some one who is well-known and popular, known for his/her fights against the the good old boys network, known for bold fights against the dems, good at fighting against the lamestream media. e.g. Palin (i.e.if she is willing to be the contender for the INDEPENDENTs):

And, assuming they manage to run a good campaign.....

Yes, this is a crazy idea, fantasy, naive.....

Some will scream - this will ensure there is only 1 party - the dems/socialists. But we essentially only have 1 party now - the dems/socialists/marxists!

Another thing - even if all registered Republicans really switched to I, and, even if the new Independents have the strongest leader, and are highly organized, they will still lose to the dems/socialists/marxists, because of their unchallenged, rampant VOTER FRAUD!

So you destroy the GOP,
So you have the best candidate
Will you win over the unchallenged rampant voter fraud?

The ‘Iron Triangle’ of RINOs -Democrats-Liberal Agenda Media has been very powerful in the USA.

The problem for the ‘Iron Triangle’ is that they have run out of our money.

They are now borrowing 40 cents on every dollar spent to keep up the impression that they are worthy of our continued loyal support.

One idea that the Liberal Agenda Media Elite, or LAME, will never mention is the fundamental difference between government and Business.

In Business, the main concern is profitability, and the imposition of a rigorous profit and loss disciple on all aspects of that business.

In the Federal Government, profit and loss are rarely considered, and when considered, usually ignored.

In government, the Federal Politician’s main concerns center around using their definition of ‘Bi-Partisan Compromise’ to achieve their primary goal of being re-elected.

A “Bi-Partisan Compromise” to a Democrat means NEVER give up any move to the Left concession agreed to by the Right, and if possible do not do what the Democrats promised to do in the Compromise.

For nearly 80 years now, the Democrats have demanded two steps to the Left, “Compromised” by agreeing to taking one step to the Right, which then gave them a net one step to the Left EVERY TIME that a ‘Bi-Partisan Compromise’ was made.

Thus, the US Federal Government has steadily moved always to the Left and with few exceptions almost always with a substantial financial loss.

The supporters of the RINOs have usually been very grateful to their Heros, the RINOs, for not allowing the Democrats to get all that they had at first demanded.

Thus, the RINOs get re-elected for doing a ‘good’ job, and the RINOs have job security for life.

Hence, we Conservatives must convince the RINO supporters to at least question their blind support of their Republicans In Name Only.

Without the RINOs, the ‘Iron Triangle’ will become the ‘Iron Bar’ of the Democrats and LAME, a much easier entity to defeat.

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