Posted on 08/10/2017 9:13:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The 2016 election cycle was a watershed event that is acutely misunderstood by the RINOs in Washington. To them, Donald Trump’s victory is an anomaly to be dismissed as a “populist” overreaction to the voters’ frustration with the status quo ante left by Obama.
But most of the anger exhibited by Trump’s supporters was grounded in valid concerns over the perpetually dismal economy, lack of job prospects for Americans, unprecedented spiraling of the federal debt, falling middle class living standards, soaring healthcare costs, reduction in business startups, and uncontrolled illegal immigration (not to mention the worsening race relations and America’s diminished influence abroad). To almost anyone living outside the Beltway and the progressive enclaves on the coasts and in our universities, it came as little surprise that a candidate pledging to “drain the swamp” would win the Republican nomination over the RINOs and prevail in the November election against a classic Big Government progressive.
That the RINOs are not capitulating to the will of the Trump supporters is evident, as we witness the debacle of healthcare reform in Congress. This is especially on display in the Senate, where the RINOs now are revealing themselves to be not merely feckless but disingenuous politicians who deceived the electorate into believing that they would align with conservative values and vote to repeal ObamaCare, when they really just wanted a return to “business as usual” -- meaning more crony capitalism for Big Business and more compromises with the Big Government Democrats. It is distressing and appalling to see RINOs inviting the Democrats to “cooperate” in fashioning an ObamaCare bill, as this will surely mean more of their unholy alliance, with greater federal regulation of the few Big Business insurers able to survive in the distorted and noncompetitive healthcare sector.
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With Rona Romney McDaniel chairing the Republican National Committee and the current composition of the House and Senate led by Ryan and McConnell approved of by the rank and file, there is obviously total RINO infestation among GOP elected officials.
Defeat the internal enemies and the lukewarm.
Truth can not win by compromising with the Devil.
Saying RINOS must go is meaningless. The RINO voters put the RINOS there. Until RINO voters can be persuaded otherwise nothing will change.
The Republican party must go.
You do stand a better chance in the House districts that have been pretty much gerrymandered to be as conservative as possible.
Paul Ryan is filthier than the caked on brown scum lining a junkyard toilet. Job One for Ryan is not saving America. It's saving the butts of greasy K Street lawyers and lobbyists while he awaits his platinum parachute.
Imagine what Newt could have done given the tools Ryan was given. With Newt, the first 100 days of President Trump's term would have been a blitzkrieg from which the left would have never recovered.
They are not RINOs.
They perfectly represent the GOPe.
They are Rockefeller/Bush Republicans and have controlled the party for many decades with two exceptions (Reagan and Goldwater). Even then, Bush 41 was Reagan’s Veep.
We all want it, but it rarely happens.
Once they get in power, it is hard to root them out.
The voting ballot method doesn’t seem to be working.
Agreed!
I know some will disagree, but TERM LIMITS are the answer. And don't give me that hogwash about, "We already have term limits. It's called the ballot box."
With the corruption of the RINOS, lobbyists and big gvt donors, the power structure has become very strong. We need to dismantle this power structure piece by piece. It will be a tough fight. But the future of our precious country depends on it.
Don't know what that means? Look it up and see how Newt stabbed conservatives in the back.
Who put Ronna in that position? Who endorsed Ryan over Nehlen? Who endorsed McCain over Ward? Who supports McConnell’s RINO boy Strange over both Moore and Brooks? Who threw his weight behind RINO Ryan’s disastrous Obamacare-light”American Health Care Act”?
Was Newt on drugs? Very bizarre election. Thanks for the heads up.
One thing about Newt that bothered me was how we went to ground, essentially silent and unmotivated after passing Contract With America. I was always curious why he seemed to effectively retire at that point.
Well it turned out Newt was cheating on this then wife. The Dems and press knew about his new tootsie and evidently black mailed Newt in exchange for his passivity.
Nope, just being a "good Republican"
You pretty much nailed it. Are Maine voters going to elect a non-Rino Senator? Probably not. It's why they currently have Angus King and Susan Collins. Ohio has Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman. They don't get much more liberal than Brown and Portman fills the RINO definition.Saying RINOS must go is meaningless. The RINO voters put the RINOS there. Until RINO voters can be persuaded otherwise nothing will change. - plain talk
You do stand a better chance in the House districts that have been pretty much gerrymandered to be as conservative as possible.
Gerrymandering by Republicans does not intend to create districts which are "as conservative as possible.” The trouble with that strategy is that it is a recipe for creating as few conservative districts as possible. Thus what we see, in red and even in purple states, is Republicans having control of state legislatures and even of congressional because of the “gerrymandering” effect which inheres in the broad countryside having a Republican strong but not extreme majority while the Democrats have overwhelming majorities in cities which makes Democrats numerically superior overall.The “natural” result of that condition is to have a significant number of (city) districts which are “as liberal as possible” — but many more districts which are conservative enough. And of course once that happens, the Republicans would tend exercise their resulting advantage to maximize that effect. Thus you have, in Pennsylvania, an outright Democrat majority in most statewide races (including for presidential electors) — and a shockingly strong majority of the congressional districts represented by Republicans.
From wikipedia:The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It claims that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law" within any democratic organization as part of the "tactical and technical necessities" of organization.I’m not certain that term limits are adequate to solve that problem - but I sure don’t know what else might do any good.Michels' theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies. Michels observed that since no sufficiently large and complex organization can function purely as a direct democracy, power within an organization will always get delegated to individuals within that group, elected or otherwise.
Political Divisions in 2016 and Beyondindicates that Hillary ran a pure “liberal" campaign, socially and economically. Trump, OTOH, ran a primarily socially conservative campaign. Hillary would have beaten an economically “conservative” candidate - Romney or any of the other 2016 Republicans - but Trump got economically “conservative” voters and enough economically “liberal,” but socially conservative voters to put him over the top in the so-called “blue wall” states.
The message is that in 2016 social “conservatism" beat social “liberalism.” And that economic “conservatives” are a shockingly weak political force in America — and socially “liberal” economic “conservatives” — libertarians — are an endangered species. To be fair, IMHO the term “social conservative” is subject to interpretation.
Your points are taken and for starters they are good.
But any critics from the Ted Cruz-Glenn Beck etc. etc. “Conservative Movement” have never really stood apart from the GOPe. Back in March watching Ted Cruz kiss up to the GOPe was excruciating and the last straw for my decision to support Trump.
We need a new ‘movement’, a new party perhaps or maybe just new tactics in the civil disobedience direction.
Kiss up to the GOPe? That’s not Ted.
He offered an amendment and it was approved.
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You’re confused!
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