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The GOP Consulting Class Is Becoming Seriously Unhinged….
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| 8-19-2015
| sundance
Posted on 08/18/2015 8:46:10 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 18, 2015
The GOP Consulting Class Is Becoming Seriously Unhinged….
by sundance
Beyond the previous examples of DC’s chattering class punditry: George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Stephen Hayes, Dana Perino, Charles Lane, Bill Kristol et al, and their on-air splodey head moments -which are continuing with the speed of an interstate covered in bubble wrap- we now have the paid GOP consultant class joining them.
GOP political consultant Rick Wilson has been in a highly visible war of words with Breitbart.com over the website’s editorial support for GOP candidate Donald Trump.
Wilson said on CNN that approximately 25% of Republicans were “low information voters”, a disparaging statement in line with the recent proclamations of FOX’s George Will. Breitbart.Com along with a few other conservative sites, wrote a response suggesting that antagonizing such voters is not how the GOP would win elections.
However, Wilson’s protestations reached exponential levels of pearl-clutching anxiety when he began making the insufferable ridiculous claim that Trump supporters were sending rape threats towards his daughter.
The absurdity of the GOPe professional consulting class was/is laughable – because it reflects the apoplectic reaction from the advance of the “Vulgarians”.
Ann Coulter joined in by directing her Twitter followers to the article on the Breitbart site which showcased the absurd reaction from the chattering class.
( Via Instapundit ) […] GOP establishment is trying so hard to discredit Trump that they don’t seem to realize that they are angering a large portion of their own constituency, which is hungering for leadership and a willingness to openly defy P.C. norms. To paraphrase Hamlet, me thinks they dost protest too much, and it is beginning to backfire on them and cause them to take openly hypocritical positions.
Indeed, they are now taking the position that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong. Oh, how the establishment loves to talk tough on immigration when it suits its purposes of ginning up conservatives on election day. But when a candidate comes along who actually wants to do something about the issue–and isn’t afraid to defy political correctness to do so–the GOP establishment suddenly cries foul, and brands him a fool, dictator, or police state zealot. The necessary implication is that the GOP establishment is all hat, no cattle on immigration.
No wonder increasing numbers of those who self-identify as Republican now openly abhor the party, and it totters on the brink of implosion. (link)
TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; anncoulter; billkristol; breitbart; charleskrauthammer; charleslane; danaperino; election2016; georgewill; gope; megynkelly; newyork; rickwilson; stephenhayes; trump
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To: grey_whiskers
Regarding the quote from PJ O'Rourke:
Trump is reminding us again. Damn straight, he is. It's why Americans of all political stripes are resonating to him. It's why he's sucked all of the oxygen out of the room since he announced - and it's why he'll continue to do so, until some other MEN show up in the race (which ain't real likely at this date).
It's also why he's going to take this thing, and show the rest how a real American gets things done. My only hope is that Ted Cruz is riding shotgun for him as he rolls over the RINO herd on his way to DC.
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:24:17 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: grey_whiskers
Grey whiskers! I nominate you for the best damn quote I have ever read on Free Republic and I’m not shitting you.I am still laughing my ass off on that tirade.Outstanding sir!and thank you for posting that.
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:30:16 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:32:39 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Jeff Head
Well said, Jeff.
Something is happening that can’t be ignored. There’s a societal shift occurring and Trump senses it and is tapping in to it. Call it a great awakening or America’s new dawn, it’s real and it’s upon us. May the Lord guide us on the right path and may we choose those who would lead us wisely.
To: Pelham
Agreed, Ann has her infuriating flaw for inadequate men.
But when she sticks to her fundamental conservative core beliefs, she slays and filets the abominable left. Her rapier like wit is the finishing touch that leaves them babbling and running for the exits.
To: Windflier
To: smoothsailing
YIKES......I NEVER trust a man with a goatee......they look like child molesters.
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posted on
08/19/2015 2:39:37 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: rikkir
Wilson just proved that the Republican establishment is just as low class as the Democrats.
Time to clean the system with an outsider.
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posted on
08/19/2015 2:51:24 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
To: smoothsailing
It’s all about the ‘money’.
These guys see their very lucrative gravy train heading for a crash. They make their money as consultants and then as advertising producers and then as advertising buyers for the candidates that hire them.
If they can’t get a campaign to hire them then they will go bankrupt. And seriously folks, if their politics and advice is the ‘wrong’ type for the candidates the public appears to be looking at, (Trump), then they really are doomed as we hopefully move into a post Obama/Rino future.
To: Calpublican
“The irony of this is that the Bush voters are actually the “low information” voters.”
That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Also Walker supporters because “he was tough on unions, or something like that”, and Rubio voters because “he has an amazing life story”.
Adds up to about 25% these days. Maybe Wilson is on to something.
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posted on
08/19/2015 2:58:12 AM PDT
by
BobL
(REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
To: smoothsailing
Rick Wilson? One of those 'Log Cabin' boys? In any case; he is really flirting with an eternity in
hellfire. Plenty of demons await your arrival...unless you repent.
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posted on
08/19/2015 3:01:27 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: The Working Man
To: smoothsailing
They’re discovering that mindless drivel has a shelf life and with Trump’s emergence, the shelf life has expired.
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posted on
08/19/2015 3:30:33 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: wardaddy
to clarify, I do not know him...but I know a good number of them. It’s amazing how shallow and alike they are....
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posted on
08/19/2015 4:15:02 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: RitaOK; wardaddy
Wardaddy is a Southern GENTLEMAN. He will defend honor to the death, fight like hell, but doesn’t need to be vulgar or haughty about it (well, like all of us, unless his dander is really up!).
Florida, where this Wilson scum is from, has been infected for decades, and it shows.
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posted on
08/19/2015 4:36:51 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: hoosiermama
Yup. The Klu Klux Klan were a democrat party creation, start to finish.
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posted on
08/19/2015 4:46:08 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: hoosiermama
[Carson] has some wonderful ideas. He has a wonderful mind and caring heart just cannot see him sitting in the chairman of the boards seat No offense, but a "caring heart" isn't necessarily the best thing to have when put in charge of spending other peoples' money.
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posted on
08/19/2015 5:34:00 AM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: smoothsailing
Amen to every bit of that. Spot on!
II Chron 7:14
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posted on
08/19/2015 5:40:29 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: smoothsailing
Fat, bald head, trimmed chin beard = My gadar is off-scale.
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posted on
08/19/2015 5:41:53 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: smoothsailing
I think Kruathammer is going to croak. Trumpism is killing him.
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posted on
08/19/2015 5:43:44 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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( Via Instapundit ) […] GOP establishment is trying so hard to discredit Trump that they don’t seem to realize that they are angering a large portion of their own constituency, which is hungering for leadership and a willingness to openly defy P.C. norms. To paraphrase Hamlet, me thinks they dost protest too much, and it is beginning to backfire on them and cause them to take openly hypocritical positions.
