Posted on 06/30/2013 8:35:36 AM PDT by Absolutely Nobama
In the days after the whimpering defeat of Mitt Trotsky, the RINO National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (whoever the hell he is) did an "autopsy" on the Republican Party. In this "autopsy", it was determined that the Republican Party needed a "bigger tent". The gist of the report was this: The party was too white, too Christian, and too male. The only way to get out of the loser's bracket was to pander to as many minorities as possible.
What a load of crap.
You see ladies and gentlemen, regardless of what the hapless Bill Kristol will tell you, regardless of the non-stop propaganda of Tokyo Rove and his acolytes at the FOX Neocon Channel (FNC), pandering to artificial ethnic and social groups will get you nowhere. What leads political parties out of the wilderness is doing what your base wants. After all, a party's base is its engine.
There are two great examples of the above theory. The French Revolution of 2008 that swept the Authoritarian Left and their false messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, into power and the American Revolution of 2010 that brought a degree of Conservatism back to Washington. (Where it was promptly sabotaged by the Weeper of the House and his cronies, but I digress.)
In both examples, the parties gave the base what they wanted. In 2008, the Democrat Party's base shed its last vestiges of Americanism. The libs wanted fascism and Big Brother controlling every aspect of human existence in the United States. Thus, the party responded by handing them the former Barry Soetoro and the drunken Joe Biteme. In 2010, the RNC got the hint and didn't severely persecute Tea Party candidates, despite pleas from Tokyo Rove and his ilk. Thus, the 2010 midterm elections turned into a massacre as the independents and Reagan Democrats came home.
But in 2012, things went back to normal for the Republicans. The party's Conservative grassroots activists were treated like Orwellian unpersons again. Mitt Trotsky and his putrid record as the governor of Taxachussetts were trotted out like a prized dancing horse by the RINO Herd as the only human being able to defeat a failing and flailing Barack Hussein Obama. Tea Party and Conservative candidates were treated like pariahs with leprosy and were openly opposed by the usual suspects (Rove, Kristol, Sheikh Ali Paul and the Paulestinians) and were defeated as the base blew off the 2012 Popularity Contest and stayed home.
In 2012 however, the Democrat Party stayed the course. They knew that keeping base happy is the key to victory. Thus, they invented the "war on women", gathered as many dead voters as they could, and screamed that the Republican Party was the latest incarnation of the Third Reich. Sure, they couldn't sell Obama as the guy who would lower the oceans and heal the earth anymore, but that was no longer the goal. DNC chair Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and her fellow Jew haters realized that there was no way on God's green and cooling earth that they could make the American people Hussein in the Membrane anymore. They also realized that the usual election rigging wouldn't carry them over the goal line either, no matter how many members of the US military were disenfranchised and how many fake talking points about the 9/11/12 attack in Benghazi were thrown out to the lazy and arrogant media. Thus they doubled down on their Marxist propaganda and dragged Obama's carcass across the finish line.
Now let's return from our stroll down Memory Hole Lane. The Democrat Party is still goosestepping to beat of the same Hitlerjugend drummer. They're still screaming for social "justice", demanding that homosexuals have the right to "marry", no one should have the right to bear arms, illegal alien criminals are better than native born Americans, and all of the rest of the anti-American crap that they've been babbling about ever since the first Progressiviks crawled out primordial soup of failed European political theory in the early 20th century. Thus, the base is happy, no matter how much the NSA spies on them.
And what's the Republican Party doing ? It's doing what it does best: Stabbing its Conservative base in the back.
As a rule, the vast majority of Conservatives are vehemently opposed homosexual "marriage", gun control, amnesty for illegal alien criminals, raising taxes, and all the rest. And yet, the Republican Party's glitterati supports these and many other leftist ideals. Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan are leading the charge to grant amnesty to the scumbags who spit on American sovereignty and hopped over the virtual fence. Rob Portman and Ileana Ros Lethinen think destroying the institution of marriage is the way to go. Tea Party traitor Pat Toomey joined up with the National Socialist Left and decided that the Second Amendment no longer applies in the United States. John McLame and Lindsey Grahamnesty weren't content with just opening the door wide open to illegal aliens and whatever else comes across the southern border, the Same Sex Senators (h/t Mark Levin) were instrumental in making sure Chairman Obama armed al-Qaeda in Syria. Oh, by the way, in case you forgot, the Weeper of the House folded his tent and failed to fight against Obama's tax hike in January.
I'd be hard pressed to call any of the above keeping the base happy. I'd also be hard pressed to call it a winning strategy.
I’m throwing the idea out there, but I’m not married to the idea of a third party. I am more interested in seeing what my fellow Conservatives think.
That may very well be.
Take a moment to look at my tagline.
Do the name Nicolae Ceaucescu ring a bell?
Yep.
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I’ve been throwing that trash out for a long time now. Those phony surveys are just begging bowls. [unladylike word] ‘em.
Hubby and I gave a big donation to our local representative in DC, and we were inundated with requests for more from republicans all over the dang country.
Into the trash!
It has seemed obvious to me for a long time that some of our most “trusted” “Conservatives” are in it for the other side.
Infiltration, lies, and perfidy, thy name is democrat.
They are fewer than we, but they are in charge of every important institution in the country.
All I can imagine when I think of the democrat party is muck and slime.
I hope we figure it out before the country collapses.
Both sides are missing something. The real way to get out of the loser's bracket is to articulate why conservative principles are good for everyone. I don't believe Rove can explain, because he's not a conservative. He's a quarterback who wants to lead any team that will take him, and he'll plan the plays for his team even though all he cares about is putting points on the board, quickly, which is not in itself a bad thing.
The problem is that in the long term we need to articulate our case or elections will continue to come down to a bidding war, which we will always lose. The far left will always promise more free stuff for the lazy than we are capable of matching. We have to offer a real opportunity to contribute and to advance on their own merits and explain why freedom is better than the coddled slavery that the left is aggressively imposing.
Indeed.
We are in deep trouble here. We can’t even blame the sock puppet. He’s under orders, and the PTB are to blame.
They have been named in various media (none of it “main stream”), but getting to them for prosecution seems impossible.
"...in 2012, things went back to normal for the Republicans. The party's Conservative grassroots activists were treated like Orwellian unpersons again. Mitt Trotsky and his putrid record as the governor of Taxachussetts were trotted out like a prized dancing horse by the RINO Herd as the only human being able to defeat a failing and flailing Barack Hussein Obama. Tea Party and Conservative candidates were treated like pariahs with leprosy and were openly opposed by the usual suspects (Rove, Kristol, Sheikh Ali Paul and the Paulestinians) and were defeated as the base blew off the 2012 Popularity Contest and stayed home."
Good post!
Thanks for the shout out!
Did you see Sarah Palin's article the other day? She's literally two inches away from turning in her Republican party card, and supporting the formation of a true opposition party.
If she comes out and calls for the Tea Party to officially register as a national political party, millions upon millions will jump ship and join it.
Thanks again, FRiend!
Praying that it does happen and soon.
As the 2012 election proved, all the money and influence in the world won't win elections, if you're pimping a candidate and an agenda the base doesn't believe in.
Bottom line, it takes votes to win elections. Shut your base out, and the winning margin of voters stays home.
Good point.
How do we know that? We haven't staged a real protest yet. Peaceful rallies in the park with speeches, flags, and placards doesn't equal a "protest".
Think Civil Rights era. Vietnam era. Those were protests that led to effective change in Washington and the country.
You’re absolutely right. The problem is the huge division between the people with the money and the base. In the Dems, there is no such division. Both their base and their big money donors like Soros are openly socialist.
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