MARK LEVIN: BOEHNER’S RETALIATION AGAINST CONSERVATIVES MEANS OPEN WARFARE, TIME TO TAKE HIM DOWN

Breitbart ^ | June 20, 2015 | by MATTHEW BOYLE

[Jim Robinson]

It’s time for conservatives to take out House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)35% and all of his comrades in primaries, nationally syndicated radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and conservative movement thought leader Mark Levin argues in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.

Levin’s comments come after Boehner’s retaliation against conservatives hit a new low this weekend, with a report from Politico about how House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)80% —playing along with Boehner’s scheme to attack Republicans for voting their conscience—removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)96% as the chairman of a subcommittee on his full committee. Levin even compared Boehner to 20th century Communist Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and how he cleansed his government of all dissent.

“Speaker Boehner’s and Congressman Chaffetz’s removal of Meadows is the latest in a series of ideologically-driven attacks on conservatives. Boehner seems to think he’s Stalin cleaning out all opposition in the Kremlin,” Levin said. “No Republican Speaker in recent times has behaved with less integrity in his wielding of power.”

Levin said that Boehner, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)45% , and Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)74% —and more—each need to be removed by Republicans across the country in primaries in 2016. He says this is because the leadership has failed to learn the proper lessons from the astronomical defeat of now former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014 in a primary against now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), the first time in U.S. history a sitting House Majority Leader was defeated in a primary. The position of majority leader was created in the late 1800s, so that means this never happened for more than a century—and Levin is calling out GOP leadership for failing to learn from the unprecedented event.

[Clint N. Suhks]

I’m IN!

Unfortunately OHIO is a Blue state...

[sand88]

He’s as dangerous if not more than Obama.

You are correct. Boehner is an extremely evil and dangerous man.

He truly is an equal partner in the literal destruction of our Republic as Founded.

I pray one day soon that the evil Boehner can receive the justice he so deserves.

Boehner is no less evil than anyone else on the left.

[RginTN]

those who told Conservatives to vote GOP because the Democrats were worse were wrong. The GOP under Boehner/Mcconnell is worse than the Democrats.

[nathanbedford]

I believe your disparagement of Mark Levin is misplaced.

He has been loud and long in his criticism of the house leadership and loud and long in support of the insurgents including Dave Brat. He has recounted time and again the opposition by the Rino Republicans to Ronald Reagan. No one has been more emphatic than Mark Levin in describing the breakdown of conservatism over the years and the Republican Party. It is not just his criticism but as activism and commitment through his career and through Landmark Legal over decades which lends him credibility.

More, he has written influential books espousing true conservatism and has even advanced a very influential argument on behalf of Article V which is an attempt to cure the problems seen in Washington where Rino Republicans fail to counter leftist Democrats from outside the power center in Washington. Whether or not you approve or disapprove of a convention of the states, it is undeniable that Mark Levin has seen the problem and has advanced a solution.

Mark Levin is not the problem.

[tennmountainman]

I listen to Levin often. And I like him.

My post was not meant to mock him.

No one seems to know the answer to making the RINOs fear conservatives.

I think we can all agree the ballot box isn’t working, with the very infrequent
exception such as Eric Cantor.

[Norm Lenhart]

Not sure what it will take before people see this fraud as the empty suit he is on this issue. How many more “inches” will it take before Levin backs up his oft repeated threats?

[boycott]

It is past time to take him down.

[tennmountainman]

Of course Levin is not the problem.

And your points about him are true and accurate.

And his Convention of States support may be the only solution.

The ballot box isn’t working. That is for sure.

[Norm Lenhart]

Actually Levin is a big part of the problem. He for some reason, has influence over his listeners. And he sets an example that one can say one thing and do another.

For example (repeated occasionally over the years). “I am this close to leaving the GOP.” And then no matter what vile and evil/unconservative thing they do, there’s Levin sticking to them like glue.

Any little kid that sees their father say one thing and do another immeadiately loses respect for the man. Any friend that sees another friend say one thing and do another never sees that friend the same ever again.

Just because this guy writes books and is a radio personality does not absolve him from the basics. If he was a great conservative, he would stand behind his words. He does not.

[sand88]

Whether or not you approve or disapprove of a convention of the states, it is undeniable that Mark Levin has seen the problem and has advanced a solution.

Mark Levin is a fantastic Conservative. I have a few of his books.

I believe it is too late for the Article V solution to work. We are too far down the road to Fascism.

I think the only chance to restore our Republic is a response by the several States to a total economic collapse where in the Federal government becomes operationally insolvent.

The States will have to assert their Constitutional authority at such time and essentially dissolve ALL unconstitutional parts of the Federal Leviathan.

A true reset will require that ALL courts below the Supreme Court be dissolved, with the associated judges and staff fired.

Of course this can only happen in a movie script. The likely reality is that the U.S. over the coming decades will turn into a decaying third world Spanish speaking sewer.

[nathanbedford]

In my reply to which you have replied in response, I listed several undertakings by Mark Levin in support of true conservatism including his career, his Association with landmark legal, his advocacy on behalf of of insurgents in the House of Representatives, his advocacy of Article V.

Your response repeats conclusionary language without support and which is internally inconsistent. You chide Mark Levin for not fulfilling a threat to withdraw from the Republican Party when he has made no such threat. He said he was an inch away, if your version is to be believed, he did not say he was withdrawing from the Republican Party. If he had said the latter and failed to do so you might have a point, but one at best limited persuasiveness.

It is hard to identify anyone in the pantheon of conservatives who are publicly known who would have been more strident in their attacks on Rino Republicans and who have lent their support to insurgents in the house, as noted in my original reply, and who has the land their airtime to insurgents seeking election in house and Senate.

I know of no pundit who has been more right on all the issues. He is right on trade, right on immigration, right on convention of the states, right on deficits and budgets, right on the war against terror, right on Obamacare, right on environmental tyranny, right on the meaning of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I know of no issue on which he is "wrong."

His career demonstrates that he walks the walk as well as talks the talk. Mark Levin is not part of the problem is part of the solution. I suspect your antipathy stems from an unfounded fear of Article V.

[nathanbedford]

I have been an active supporter of the Article V movement on these threads but I have always been careful to condition my expectations of success for the movement on some sort of cataclysmic event which I described as a "black Swan" event which might galvanize America to reform itself.

You describe such a situation in your reply and if such a cataclysmic event occurs the Article V option will remain a very good vehicle for that reform. However, Nathan Bedford is also fond of reciting his own maxims and this one might well apply: the reform of failed socialism is invariably more socialism. So if a cataclysm occurs it will be a desperate fight in which both sides seek to reform the country in their own image. The liberals have never been known to let a good crisis go to waste and they will be very effective in describing their brand of tyranny as salvation.

We should be prepared.

[Eleutheria5]

“thought leader”?

[TomasUSMC]

The 50 reps who voted against this tpa crap ought to form their own party NOW.

They’d have tremendous leverage and could MAKE the GOP do the “Right” thing ...instead of giving US ... THEMOTHER OF ALL NAFTAs.

[Bulgaricus1]

We should have voted against weepy jim in the election. At least everyone knows that a democrat is the enemy. Jimmy boy is just a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[MaxMax]

Late to the party, LEVIN?

Unfreaking-believable.

[Norm Lenhart]

Sure he has done good things. I’d never deny that. But when the chips were down with Romney, with Bhoner and with mitch, what did he do?

Now he wants to go off on “We gotta get rid of Bhoner” when he knows damn well it’s safe to do so as there is ZERO chance of a recall or the house members that threw away their conservative bonifieds and voted him into leadership.

Zero.

It’s the truth isn’t it? If it isn’t then I am willing to be educated as to where I am incorrect. When it was safe during the primaries, he was all gung ho about the unsuitability of these men for office. But when the chips were down, all that just vanished. That’s not simple party politics. Thats a fundamental flaw of character.

Levin has plenty of good things to say on a number of subjects. On this one he has the trustworthiness of the people he backed fully. None.

[nathanbedford]

1) Levin supported the primary opponents of both McConnell and Boehner.

2) Levin opposed the leadership positions of both McConnell and Boehner.

If Levin failed to advocate Republicans vote Democrat in the general elections of Boehner and McConnell, that is a calculated judgment and certainly not a measurement of one's conservatism but more properly a measurement of one's frustration-a frustration which we all share including myself and Mark Levin and one about which I suspect we will be hearing a declaration from Levin soon (probably in his new book) advocating such a break.

If he does not so advocate, it remains a perfectly respectable strategic opinion to hold respecting relative harm vs gain.

[advertising guy]

Mods delete this,not cause of the language but cause I sent it to the wrong poster