Posted on 02/17/2014 11:50:40 AM PST by servo1969
RUSH: The Republican Party establishment... Let me set this up by going back to the 2012 presidential campaign. Remember when you learned that the Romney campaign, along with Republican establishment types, had put the word out that there was to be no criticism of Obama? In fact, I remember... I think I told you all this. A prospective Republican presidential candidate in 2010 or 2011 visited me.
There was some confab here in Palm Beach, and this man called and wanted to come by and tell me what his plans were. So I said, "Sure, come on by Sunday morning." The guy said, "Rush, now, I just want to tell you: We can't go after Obama. That's instant death. We can go after his policies, but we can't go after Obama." I said, "Really? How do you separate 'em? How do you not go after Obama if you're going after his policies? How could you go after his policies while not going after Obama?"
"We can't make it personal, Rush. We just can't do it." And that bled over to the Romney campaign, so much so that in the debates they wouldn't even bring up Benghazi. So now, the Republican establishment has let everybody in the party know that they will not tolerate, they will not advocate, and they won't put up with anybody attacking the Clintons' past. If Hillary runs for president, there will be no discussion of Lewinsky and the blue dress.
There will be no discussion of the Rose Law Firm, the billing records. There will be none of that stuff from the past. "We're not gonna dredge it up," the Republican establishment says. "It ain't gonna happen. We can't win by going back and being critical of the Clintons. We can't bring all that stuff up from the past. We're not gonna do it. We're gonna stay away from it."
Sure, they can attack Palin. They can attack Palin's whole family. They can make movies and talk about how the Republicans were so scared of her lack of intelligence, they wouldn't even vote for her. They can do all that, but we can't attack the Clintons. We couldn't attack Obama, and can't now attack the Clintons. Pat Caddell was on Fox saying the GOP establishment wants the IRS to go after the Tea Party.
Pat Caddell said yesterday on Fox News that the reason Republican leadership has not pushed for a higher-level investigation of the IRS for targeting the Tea Party is because they want the IRS to go after the Tea Party. When you have 71% who want an investigation, 64% who believe it is a sign of corruption, including nearly a majority of Democrats, the reason is the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Party.
Got it?
They want them to go after the Tea Party because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold. I'm telling you, the lobbying-consultant class of the Republican Party and Republican leadership, who have been attacking the Tea Party and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this. That's why there hasn't been any establishment Republican pushback on the IRS. It's almost safe to say the Republican establishment might be willing to lose a couple of elections if it meant getting rid of the Tea Party; because it's clear, folks, they don't want to win any elections the Tea Party can claim any credit for.
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RUSH: You gotta hear Pat Caddell. I mentioned this, but I want you to hear Pat Caddell say it. It was last night on the Fox report on the Fox News Channel, talking about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups.
CADDELL: The reason is, the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. Got it? They want to go after the Tea Parties because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold, and I'm telling you, the lobbying, consulting class of the Republican Party and Republican leadership who have been attacking the Tea Parties and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this.
RUSH: That is a serious charge. That is a very, very serious charge, that the Republican establishment is aligned with Obama and is okay with Obama using the IRS to investigate the Tea Party. But it's believable, because we know the Republican establishment, the political class in Washington, is spreading the word that they are not gonna criticize Hillary, it isn't gonna happen, and we shouldn't, either. It shouldn't happen. It won't help anybody to criticize the Clintons, at least not from the nineties. Maybe go after her on Benghazi, but if anybody does that they'll say, "No, no, no, leave Benghazi alone." And pretty soon they're gonna say no criticism of the Clintons. That's not gonna help us. You watch.
Here’s a hint. Most of the GOP aren’t Dem operatives. Their votes WITH Democrats show them to BE democrats. And only an abject moron would vote for them.
Here’s another. It does not make an iota of difference if a Waxman or a Pelosi or a McCain or a Bhoner vote if they vote for the same things. R or D still gets you hosed.
Time for a third party.
[ Pat Caddell is one of the few responsible Democrats in media. From him, I don’t doubt a word of this. ]
A democrat who has been burned by his own party is a better ally than a member of your own party that lies to your face and stabs you in the back.
That incestuous relationship has a name: It's Fascism.
Note that Communism is when there is no ownership -- you just take what you need and give what you can. You've never seen anything like this in history, because Communism is about as utopian as you can get.
Note that Socialism is when the government owns things. You work for the government at the government-owned auto plant and you spend your paycheck at the government-owned grocery store. Cuba has this. It doesn't work well, but it's been tried. But, for the most part, the USA is not a socialist country.
Note that Fascism is when Big Business props up Big Government. And Big Government props up Big Business. The elite owns the businesses. They get sweetheart deals from their friends in government. The politicians don't actually own much of anything, but they make the insurance companies, the car companies and the banks do whatever the government wants. Re-election is easy that way, pensions are well-funded, and money flows into pockets when needed. Sound familiar? That's Fascism.
Dang, man, we've got to start getting at least as smart as the real enemy and use intelligent, stealth tactics to win. Using intelligence is how Reagan's America helped freedom fighters win around the world. A lot of people around here using some of this logic would call Reagan a traitor because he was supporting freedom fighters within a dictatorial country. That's stupid. I'm a libertarian freedom fighter with the GOP until it is overthrown.
It would hardly be a surprise. In the last five years, I saw the GOP-E repeatedly stab Palin in the back, then I saw them repeatedly stab the burgeoning tea-party in the back, then I saw them repeatedly stab Ted Cruz in the back.
After all this, it is impossible for me to look upon the GOP-E as anything but a personal enemy of everything I stand for, just as malicious as the Dems. And I already adjusted in 2012 my lifelong voting pattern to fit this new reality.
Not according to the expats from Idiocracy that run wild on conservative websites and claim to be rock ribbed right wingers.
Which is more a problem for us than any Dem. Since they do nothing but breed conclusion and work to thwart us in getting our collective act on the same page.
I’m asking WHY this guy is still a Democrat if he is one. I think it’s a fair question.
Well good luck with your proven disaster of a strategy. In case you missed it, people claim that nonsense since Ronaldus shuffled the presidential coil. And the GOP is about a million times more lib than it has E V E R been.
He is sorely missed.
It does make a difference. When the "Republicans" who are in the game to defend the status quo vote against constitutional conservative issues, it means there is no solid voting block that the libs are challenged by. They can pick off a few votes and we lose.
Thats what happened when Boehner only needed a little more than 20 Republican votes to defeat his own party. That's disgusting.
They act or say they like Cruz, but they really don’t.
You can’t promote the “lessor of two evil” nonsense and like Cruz, and those
like him. It’s incompatible.
Damn typos today...Breed CONFUSION
Atwater is greatly missed.
What I am saying is that when the Pubs vote with Dems, they are dems. There is no difference. A vote doesn’t have a political affiliation. It is yea or nay. But the person casting it does. And in the case of the GOPe/RINOs that affiliation is Democrat. Because it sure isn’t voting according to the GOP platform.
Atwater
A Republican who dared to play the game like the Dems did.
Not much reasoning in your answer. How are you going to NOMINATE Rand or Cruz if you’re in a closed state and not in the Republican Party?
And yet they roam freely, spreading the GOP gospel unchallenged by all but a few of us.
I wonder why we don’t have more support in fighting their idiocy.
If by that you mean we can trust Pat Caddell more than John Boehner, I’d be inclined to agree with you.
I’m surprised Jim Roberson allows them to roam so freely.
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