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.
Not much logic in helping support a party that is trying everything they can to silence Cruz. Perhaps it’s time Cruz went indy.
Yes. Indy.
And as far as that other guy goes, well, people backing the illegals as he has done can go pound salt. As can his supporters.
Not only on FR...but most of GOP Media pushes the “vote GOP no matter what” mantra.
Once that is stopped...then conservatives will win
That’s his call to make. But I don’t get it either.
If we were lucky, Lee would have used his guitar.
Oh for sure. FR isn’t the only place by far that stupidity is spread. But since we were told we were gonna hold ‘feet to the fire” I find the extreme lack of feet being held to the fire rather disturbing.
Of course, few will upset their online BFFs. That would ‘offend’ someone.
Thanks servo1969. Bombshell, abbreviated B.S.
Why can't he be a Democrat? Why can't Zell Miller be a Democrat? Maybe he wants to restore the party to its old principles.
Hey! Why are some people on FreeRepublic still Republicans? I think it's a fair question!
[ If by that you mean we can trust Pat Caddell more than John Boehner, I’d be inclined to agree with you. ]
BINGO!
I don’t doubt it either.Those sumbitches.
I don’t doubt it either.Those sumbitches.
“Pat Cadell is a DEMOCRAT operative “
Pat’s a Democrat but not an operative. I’ve listened to Pat multiple times on Fox News, and he’s actually surprisingly conservative and has almost nothing good to say about what the Obammunists and their minions are doing.
” Do you know anything at all about Pat Caddell? Probably not, because you didn’t even spell his last name correctly. He is NOT associated with the current crop of statist DemocRATs. He is an old-line Democrat who hates the ones in power.
If you had been paying attention the last several years, you would have known that he has consistently criticized Obama and the current DemocRATs. “
YOu nailed it. Pat can’t stand the obammunists.
GOP consultants were wrong about a Romney win - and they're wrong about this strategy.
Attacking conservatives in the Tea Party works IF the goal is to allow powerful liberals to win... It also works if the goal is to elect impotent Republican. Glad-handers...shoe salesmen types...
The lobbying-consultant class is primarily made up of political science majors who are liberal. They run candidates they can control - and who can pull in large donations that can be spent on TV ads etc... stuff they get a percentage of... These types have ZERO interest in furthering our causes. Conservatism isn't the incentive that lines their pockets.
Consultants give the illusion of a two party system...
What we see here is what we see across the right. Anyone standing in the way of leftism is mocked and marginalized.
Sure PC is a Dem. I wish the GOP were all Dems like him. Instead they and their sycophants, excusemakers and obstructionists are more in the Obama mold. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be attacking those who attack today’s ‘liberals’ (Read outright marxists).
Is I keep saying, when the rot we have within the right is expunged, we can begin to make progress fixing what said rot helped empower.
Further thoughts from the guy who wound up as a gas station decoration.
Pat Caddell must have the list. I wish he would get mad enough to spill it.
Makes sense.
ON one side, they use it to mobilize voters. ON the the other, the IRS suppresses their internal enemies. Win-Win for he RINOs.
They don’t call me Master of the Obvious for nothing. :)
He says “Republican leadership.” I think we can extrapolate pretty accurately from that alone.
“See theres NO substantive difference between either party....despite what the republican fan boys here will tell you.”
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GET BUSY LIVING, OR GET BUSY DYING! There are those of us who are busy working hard to have the Tea Party wrest control of the Republican Party from the RINO elite. And we’ve been making considerable progress.
Are you helping in this effort? Complaining and whining does absolutely no good unless buttressed by ACTION.
2014 is a year for TEA PARTY ACTION. Are you on board? Are you working to get rid of RINOs such as Little Lindsay Graham and replace him with a true conservative? Are you working to fill vacant Congressional seats with new Tea Party Representatives and Senators?
Let’s “get busy living” and busy advancing the Tea Party and the conservative agenda. Let’s leave the whining and complaining to the DemocRATs and the RINOs.
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