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Posted on 01/05/2015 7:46:20 PM PST by JSDude1
A national poll of GOP voters supervised by Caddell Associates, Pat Caddell’s outfit, presented the following findings yesterday regarding tomorrow’s full House vote for the speaker position:
Only a quarter of GOP voters think [John] Boehner and [Mitch] McConnell should remain Speaker and Majority Leader. Three-fifths want someone new rather than Speaker Boehner and almost half want someone new rather than Leader McConnell.
As of now this finding has received scant media attention. It deserves more. The Daily Signal broke Caddell’s poll but somewhat buried that lede; Drudge linked the Daily Signal article halfway down his site. Otherwise, I see little attention given to it as of now.
(UPDATE: Looks like Mark Levin caught it.)
I spoke with a member of Louie Gohmert’s staff earlier this morning who pointed out the statistic to me, and mentioned how they thought that 25% figure is of primary importance regarding Gohmert’s challenge tomorrow. I certainly agree with that assessment, and I’m having trouble understanding how Boehner, D.C., and the media in general could dismiss it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Who cares what the “peasants” want? AMIRITE?
Also from this article: “At some point — I suppose each man has a different threshold — the nature of power and corruptibility is supposed to yield to … I don’t know, shame? Or integrity, or something else laudable that bears a relation to campaign promises? Not to sound holier-than-thou, but I’m pretty sure John Boehner did not envision public service as a role in which someone should fiercely cling to power against the wishes of his electorate, and he certainly didn’t hope he’d eventually be that guy. And those occasionally strong and principled members of the GOP caucus surely didn’t all see themselves as pawns needing to kowtow to this eventuality.
Who is well-served in this situation? Rationally, only John Boehner is served by his refusal to step aside. Further — and representing a precise analogy to the GOP leadership’s current sour relationship with its citizen members — the GOP House members who are still providing Boehner with the support he requires to maintain the speakership serve only their own interests, as defined by what Boehner can reward the loyalty with.
Logic: if the House members planning to vote for Boehner feared the voters wrath more than his, then Boehner would be gone. You don’t ignore 75% voter disapproval, 60% for Boehner, if you feel this vote could threaten your 2016 reelection. But they intend to ignore it.
Burn up the phone lines accordingly, folks. Gohmert is doing precisely what you asked of him in November, no?”
202-224-3121.
Out?
I thought we wanted him Tarred and Feathered and then out.
I read somewhere that Boehner is playing hardball...if true, there is major intimation going on. Please pray for those who are actually taking a stand
Yes of course, that’s the MOST important. For only God can truly save those under attack from evil.
Yep, and run him out of town.
Will the outcome of the Majority Leader vote birth a new conservative political party?
Might set the seeds for one, but there’s a lot that would need to change if you don’t want to end up like the Constitution Party or the Libertarians...
I sense that they are surprised by the response.
Like an addict in an intervention with the whole family in his face, just unable to squirm out of it.
A tyrannical oligarchy NEVER gives a rat’s arse what the ‘little people’ want.
They have told us folks, they intend to ‘crush us wherever we are found’; ‘punch us in the nose’ and make sure we never are able to have a single Conservative candidate on the ballot anywhere in the country.
You cannot stop a tyranny like this via civil means. Period.
Not within the GOP.
We are about to discover how corrupted and invincible the Ruling Class Oligarchy is against any reform from within this system they have corrupted for themselves.
A spoof?
Put this jackass in there, wait for the complaints, then throw him out...Get the short attention span crowd all ginned up, then throw out some meatless bones and watch um go crazy. Boehner announces he’s bailing and wants to spend more time with the family. He gets multiple gold plated biggov pensions and everyone is happy. The loot starts trickling into the GOP again and the base is all fired up. The sultans of swindle quietly wink and nod as their limo drives off....
IMO Here is someone who gets it. Right on, Invar, right on! Sadly there will be no change & the only situation that will make it is a totally collapse. This again will not happen in the near future because as the frog in the water it will be gradual. When sheeple pay $11 for a loaf of bread & $12 for some cheap hamburger maybe some action begins. That's still a long time out.
“Might set the seeds for one, but there’s a lot that would need to change if you don’t want to end up like the Constitution Party or the Libertarians...”
Precisely, and that would be ending up irrelevant which is exactly what the Socialist Democrats are trying to get us to do. Creating that third party is playing into their hands. This has a lot to do with much of the propaganda from the Leftist MSM. They are trying to get Conservatives to dump the GOP, and become an irrelevant, inconsequential third party like so many including those listed by JSDude1.
Sadly though, most of these 75 percenters will still vote to re-nominate their lousy House member in their district.
I’d like for conservative principles to succeed in governing our nation.
Right now, it would be impossible with a 3rd party, but created the right way, and could succeed. I see no problem with one. The Republican Party is a vehicle, not “the driver”.
-JS
Watching this from deep within enemy territory (Broward county FL). No way in #311 alcee hastings gives a $#1t about my view. 66% d-rat in this county
John “K-Street” isn’t going anywhere.
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