Posted on 01/10/2016 6:43:03 AM PST by cotton1706
In 1996, conservatives were told to abandon their hopes of having Pat Buchanan as the Republican nominee. They said that the party needed to latch onto the Republican Establishment candidate of the day, Bob Dole, if we had any hope of ejecting Bill Clinton from office. It's time for them to listen to their own advice. This year, the party must rally around a conservative.
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Republicans need to understand a very unfortunate truth: the Republican Establishment would rather have a Democrat in office than a true conservative. This is hard for most to believe since Democrats never think like this and conservatives are normally reluctant supporters (but supporters nonetheless) of the moderate that the Republican Establishment selects. To them, they'd rather lose the election and maintain control of the party rather than risk a conservative winning the election and then moving control of the party further to the right.
They have asked conservatives for decades to abandon their candidates and support their moderates. This year, we're asking the same thing. They can either play ball or they'll burn the whole party down. It's sad but they may prefer ruling over a destroyed party than serving under a thriving conservative version.
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They will get their wish.
the GOP has become the home of the “Me-too-just-not-so-much” wing of the Uniparty. I have some serious issues with the Libertarian Party but on balance, fewer now than I do with the GOP. A least the Libertarian Party is honest and committed to what it wants.
The establishment is responsible for its own downfall. The old base is fed up with lies and back room backstabbing deals.
Lincoln’s old saying ‘You can’t fool all of the people all of the time’ has bit them in the butt.
Republicans need to understand a very unfortunate truth: the Republican Establishment would rather have a Democrat in office than a true conservative. This is hard for most to believe...
It’s not hard for most of us to believe, since most of us have been saying this for years.
“It’s not hard for most of us to believe, since most of us have been saying this for years.”
Yup! We were all way of ahead of the “brilliant” intelligentsia. Because we don’t live in their bubble.
To quote Orwell on the Establishment mentality: “Only an intellectual would believe that, no ordinary man would be such a fool!”
Any way you look at it the party of the GOPe is dead. The GOP either fractures and a true conservative party emerges from the pieces, leaving the GOPe to the dustbin of history; or the GOPe stops being petulant and joins the conservatives.
Great way to characterize each of the top two.
We can't rely on a weak Hitliary for the 'Rats to lose, but rather plan for the relatively strongest opponent where 'Rats might win (Thinking of a 'Rat reset, with Hitliarly dropping out due to "health", aka email felonies, replaced with a Biden/Warren ticket or similar).
The sad thing is, they may take us down with us.
Most of us have been saying the same thing for a while. The GOP-E likes to have their cake and eat it too. They take advantage of the conservative majority in the GOP and the grass roots volunteers who mostly walk lock step and vote for GOP candidates across the board. Even though much is made of conservatives sitting at home those that sat at home weren’t registered GOP they were voters entirely turned off by the political system who should’ve favored the GOP. No conservative GOP like us voted for Dole, voted for McCain, voted for Romney like good little elephants even if we didn’t like the choices. We even put up with George W Bush’s compassionate conservative crap which was easier because we were winning till the 2nd half of his last term.
Winning makes it easier to stomach something that isn’t so good. However now that its the GOP-E that is being called on to be loyal little elephants supporting the eventual nominee whether it is Trump or Cruz they are balking revealing what I believe is their true natures.
One doesn’t have to look very far to find many examples of where the Washington DC GOP have revealed their true natures whether it is the change in tone once they achieved the largest majorities in the House (we did that) where they insisted on acquiescing to Obama’s goals and the goals of ever growing big government even going as far as undoing the sequester the one place were they actually managed to get Obama to concede as their defense contractor donors began screaming. They weren’t really concerned about our military which was still being funded at levels near or above those at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
In 2013 they began insisting with Rubio in the lead standing alongside some of the most liberal Democrats in Washington that we had to push through comprehensive immigration reform and basically telegraphed that we were going to get it whether we liked it or though the primary loss of Golden boy Eric Cantor derailed these efforts permanently. Even after taking the Senate and growing House Majorities in 2014 instead of Boehner and company learning their lesson they continued purposely passing legislation and funding with Democrat support even when the majority of Republicans in the House disagreed.
It was during this time that it became clear that the leadership and far too many GOP in the Washington DC bubble not only weren’t conservative but were outright progressives not the least bit interested in standing up to Obama in any aggressive way. They didn’t even send Obama any bills to veto till recently and this was after making sure to give him the power to produce an Iran deal, quadrupling the number of H2B visas and made tax credits for illegals permanent as well as funding 300000 visas for refugees from the Middle East. If they had wanted to fight this they could’ve easily made the case against this to the American public. That they didn’t even try shows their true heart. Its one thing to choose not to fight when you have issues that the public aren’t tuned into but another altogether when you refuse to fight a bill that contains elements that the vast majority of Americans oppose vehemently.
It comes down to the fact that these guys don’t really want to change the status quo in Washington DC they simply want their turn at the treasury which is of course long empty. They are funding that evil monstrosity on the backs of our grand children who will face an America that we will not even recognize if we don’t get the demographic problems under control caused by illegal immigration and unchecked legal immigration and stop importing individuals who do not appreciate liberty.
Turn right and go straight.
People talk about both parties “dying” every election. Here they still are. Neither is going anywhere.
Would you trust them if they claimed to do that?
No one said anything about trust.
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