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Posted on 09/25/2015 7:24:09 PM PDT by cotton1706
That sound you hear around Washington right now is the sound of the Republican establishment shaking.
House Speaker John Boehner’s resignation under duress—a move that was both a shock and years in the making at the same time—means tea-party-styled forces have further ratcheted up their power within the party. With each such move, the grip of what people think of as the Republican party establishment—big business donors, official party leaders, congressional leaders whose tenure dates back more than a decade or so—is loosened a bit more.
It’s worth remembering that the Boehner departure, while a big blow to that establishment, is hardly the first one. Utah Sen. Robert Bennett, previously considered a thoroughly reliable conservative, was defeated in 2010 in a tea-party revolt. Next came Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, another party icon, defeated in similar fashion in 2012.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor—the man once positioned to take Mr. Boehner’s place—was defeated in a 2014 primary at the hands of the very tea-party forces he had tried to corral. Meanwhile, in the nascent 2016 presidential campaign, establishment favorite Jeb Bush has been marginalized by populist voters more enamored of complete outsiders Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.
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My gut tells me this all is a ploy in an attempt to get the GOP voter base to ‘trust them again’. I won’t fall for it. They could’ve gotten rid of Boehner a long time ago. They let the clock run out as long as they possibly could.
A lot of people here have left the republican party thinking it won’t change. But it can’t change unless grassroots republicans force it to. Cantor and Boehner are gone, and the top three presidential candidates aren’t polititians. This is as good as it gets. Now is not the time to leave. Now is the time to get involved.
Speaking of whom Carly is supported and financed by:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/25/whoopsie-federal-elections-commission-opens-inquiry/
or The Donald
Deeds lower than Mississippi ?
Quoth Trump:
“All politicians are interchangeable”
My bucket list is to have G. Gordon Liddy as Speaker of the House and Richard Marcinko as SecDef.
Well done!
Oh no, listen to big bad Trent Lott, who groveled in apology and then caved anyway and let the left run him out of office and accepted their definition of him as a rayciss by letting them run him out. But now he’s a big bad “severe conservative”, like Romney. And what’s with “these cats”? Is he channeling Elvis, or is he a born-again southerner now that he schmoozes congressmen?
Funny, by the left’s criteria, Reagan was the extremist to end all extremists, and probably the most successful and beloved conservative politician of modern times. For that matter, they considered W an extremist, and he won two terms too. Looks to me like we do better with so-called “extremists”, but then I wouldn’t let the likes of Oliver Stone define a conservative for me in the first place. To his kind, anyone who doesn’t dance on the bodies of murdered and ripped-up babies is an “extremist”, or anyone who doesn’t march for “pride” in th act of one man sticking his privates into the defecating end of another man.
Unfortunately, i think we are 20 years too late
That should sound like a joke in a sane world, but instead it is literally true. Zuckerberg and his ilk buy “the people’s representatives”, those fine public servants, like they buy a new car, just another tool to increase their collective power and status. The people are getting more and more fed up, we are aching for real leadership, and unfortunately that ache is going to assuaged one day by someone who will inflict pain we never imagined possible.
When they are on the complete opposite end of where rank-and-file conservatives are, you have to wonder what’s in it for them.
Good points. It’s the GOPe who always throw the monkey wrenches into the winning strategies of conservatives, and then stand back and point at the “losers”, when they are responsible for the loss.
Recently I happened to hear Hewitt interview Cruz. He was very fair and courteous but he is definitely in the liberal wing of the party as is Medved. Haven’t listened to Medved for 15 years or so.
Me too, because I could have sworn that I read an article here at FR where some ‘rat congressman claimed that the ‘rats would side with Boehner to keep a conservative from potentially getting the speaker’s chair.
I’d love to know what’s really behind this, because I don’t believe we’ve heard the truth yet, and I don’t know if the truth is helpful or hurtful to the conservative agenda. There is no telling what the dirty DC crooks may be up to.
The very scenario which came to my mind first. They set a new low bar in dirtiness in that campaign, showed their true faces and far from being conservative, they consider conservatives their enemies.
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