Kinda hard to 'gnash' just one tooth......................
Posted on 11/03/2015 8:16:11 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
The establishment needs to stop patronizing the grass-roots and listen to their concerns.
Republicans should be upbeat. They control by large margins the state legislatures and governorships. The Supreme Court is a bit more conservative than liberal. The House and Senate are both run by Republicans.
President Obama, after veritably wrecking his party, has for some time scarcely polled above 45 percent in approval ratings - even after borrowing $8 trillion to spread the wealth, pandering to special interests, echoing nonstop the assertions of his iconic status, and blaming all his failures on his predecessors and opponents.
In addition, parties usually do not succeed in winning the presidency for three consecutive terms. Nor do orphaned presidential elections - ones in which the incumbent president or vice president is not running - usually go to the party that currently holds the White House.
In addition, the Democratic presidential field is particularly weak. There are only two serious candidates - and neither is too serious. Bernie Sanders was never a registered Democrat, but was a proud Cold War-era socialist. Hillary Clinton has usually flubbed up on the stump anytime she has run a national campaign. Anywhere there is a Clinton, a scandal looms nearby. There is still some chance Ms. Clinton may have to go for a humiliating Petraeus-style misdemeanor plea-bargain deal for flouting federal law.
In contrast, the Republicans have fielded a number of experienced and competent candidates. In terms of "diversity," the field that includes Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, and Marco Rubio "looks more like America" than does the Democratic field, which is made up of monotonously geriatric white people. Not one of them is an outsider; not one is under 50.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Grind babies grind them teeth down to stumps
Kinda hard to 'gnash' just one tooth......................
Don’t like the fact that we’re playing the identity politics game five paragraphs in.
Clearly, some people cannot stand prosperity. Don’t have enough adversity in their lives, got to go out and invent some.
The Republican Party is poised on a breakthrough they just do not seem able to steel themselves into acting upon. There is an old saying, strike while the iron is hot, preferably at cherry or straw heat, and you can mold the toughest iron around into just about any shape you want.
In it to win it. Or go home.
Now the House and Senate are run ‘behind closed doors’ by the RATS...but look at it this way:
The RAT pResident has single handed destroyed the RAT party, look at who they have running, A killer, A socalist and someone else who doesn't matter...
The Republican Party has 15 candidates, granted some of them are RINOs at best, but the RATS don't have anywhere to go....so they have gloom-ed on to the Republican party so they can hide the fact the RAT party is gone....
The major problem between the GOP/RNC and their voters is that the voters want the illegal alien inundation stopped and they don’t.
They have been paid handsomely to betray the citizens and the rule of law and they will not reverse direction.
For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP
The GOP-e would prefer a Hillary! win to Trump, Cruz, or Carson taking the prize.
Look at the 2012 gubernatorial election in Virginia if you need proof.
Carson is for amnesty, so they’d probably be OK with him.
The VA gov’s race is a prime example of the GOPe undermining their own candidate to put Clinton’s Bag Man in office.
Yes, but we elected faux-republicans by mistake. It is mostly all fake.
“They have been paid handsomely to betray the citizens and the rule of law and they will not reverse direction.”
100%
I sure hope the establishment has good dry cleaners.
No wall, No future.
Hanson, of course, is wrong here. The new information is that the GOP isn’t conservative. The mask is off, and as such, none of these statistics he sites matters. If the GOP were conservative (and I don’t believe for a second SCOTUS is more conservative than liberal), then this may be worth reading past the second paragraph.
The main problem with the GOPe is that their greed has gotten in their way of doing what is right.
Good article. Worth the read.
The revolution is populism. The "little guys" have had enough and they aren't going to take it anymore. This is the manifestation of 1984 and Network.
The GOP-e would prefer a Hillary! win to Trump, Cruz, or Carson taking the prize.
THAT ^^ is the TRUTH!!!
Wake up, Pubbies....(like my older aunt who loves Lyin Paul Ryan!)
No wall, No future.
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