The Mask is Off

American Thinker ^ | January 28, 2012 | Ebben Raves

[Hotlanta Mike]

Last Thursday will be remembered as the day the Republican establishment unveiled its true face. We know they've just been inside the beltway too long. We expect their informed opinion to tilt in whatever direction keeps them on the cocktail circuit. That's why many of us don't pay a whole lot of attention to them. But to bring out John McCain and Bob Dole to give us advice on picking presidential candidates and have who we thought were "our" pundits treat it as gospel? Next they will tell us ObamaCare is not so bad. Oh wait, they're already priming that pump.

Let's face it, Reagan was an aberration. Before and since, can anyone truthfully say that the party has gone to the mat for conservative, TEA party values? Or has it been just lip service? Why is it always that when we seem to be inside the twenty on an issue that matters, such as cutting the size of government and holding it accountable, we can never score? Newt tried somewhat in the nineties, but was stabbed in the back by his own party. What happened when the Republicans had both houses and the presidency? What happened to the House of Representatives the TEA party put in office in 2010? Excuses. There always has been and there always will be excuses.

That brings us to this election cycle. Mitt Romney is the establishment's man. Never mind that Romney has never done anything conservative. Never mind that it is leaking out that he probably won't get rid of ObamaCare, the issue that gave Republicans the House in 2010. Never mind that his biggest qualification is that he is a businessman. So is George Soros. Pretty much the same kind of business, too. Woe on to anyone who is a threat to the status quo that challenges him, though. They will be attacked with a fervor never unleashed on a Democratic opponent.

Now why is that? As always, money and power. And, as Ayn Rand told us, the biggest pile of either resides in Washington, DC. For the Republican and Democratic establishment and their lackeys, it has never been about principles or the middle class. It has always been about saying or doing whatever it takes to feed at the public trough. Anyone who gets in their way or dares to shrink the trough will be destroyed. Those at the trough do share with each other, though. How often do you see anyone from either party suffer consequences from fleecing the taxpayer?

So, TEA party, constitutional conservative folks, we have a choice to make. We can stay on the plantation, run away or abolish it. The first choice is easy and we may even see some scraps from time to time. The last two will be more difficult, but since we now know the face of the enemy, not so much.

Ebben Raves is a veteran, constitutional conservative activist, and speaker who teaches American history and has been a guest on several talk radio shows. He can be reached at ebshumidors@yahoo.com

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[glock rocks]

Ping to an excellent article.

[hoosiermama]

Don’t miss this one.

Go Tea Party
Go Newt

[loveliberty2]

Now, it is time for "We, the People," not the GOP Establishment types, to call for a candidate who has enough knowledge to defend the Constitution's protections against elected representatives from both Parties. After all, pure and simply, that was what it was designed to do.

At this moment there are 3 who appear to have studied the Founders in some depth.

It will be up to "the People," however, to hold their candidate accountable, once nominated.

Gingrich seems to be intellectually, and by a lifetime of study, qualified to craft an individual liberties, ideas-based campaign capable of exposing and defeating the "I-can-do-everything-for-you" enslaving ideas of Obama.

Romney displays no such study or grounding in principles underlying our freedom.

"Spending 25 years in the private sector" working and participating in the results of America's founding ideas does not, in itself, qualify one for defending the ideas that made it possible to do so.

When asked, Romney seems unable to set his answers in anything deeper than quotations from Reagan, patriotic songs, or familiar phrases from other speakers.

That kind of surface knowledge of the vast reservoir of ideas essential to liberty will not defeat an opponent who has immersed himself in the set of government-centered, tyrannical ideas to which he is committed and for which he has been mentored and trained to defend and cloak in a garment of benevolence.

Romney's offhandedness in describing the November 2012 opponent as just "in over his head" indicates unpreparedness for a battle of opposing ideas with a person who is committed and determined to impose those ideas, despite their having failed in every society where they have been tried.

[garjog]

John McCain and Bob Dole:

Two of our Most Inspiring Leaders!

[EagleInGA]

Excellect article. I spent almost my entire adult life donating time and money to help support the GOP, but any party with the face of Mitt Romney (or the fat man from NJ) is no party of mine.

Time to take out the establishment or shoot the elephant all together and start anew. Its a long, hard slog but quite frankly Romney or Obama the country still bleeds. Its only a matter of degree.

Here’s to the rebellion!!

[EagleInGA]

Excellect article. I spent almost my entire adult life donating time and money to help support the GOP, but any party with the face of Mitt Romney (or the fat man from NJ) is no party of mine.

Time to take out the establishment or shoot the elephant all together and start anew. Its a long, hard slog but quite frankly Romney or Obama the country still bleeds. Its only a matter of degree.

Here’s to the rebellion!!

[RedMDer]

Click

House Minority Whip Gingrich and 7th District congressional candidate
Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River on
April 15, 1994, as part of a "Taxpayer's Tea party" in Roswell, Georgia.
GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!

[CASchack]

No more nose-holding and voting for the anointed choice of the establishment. I will NOT vote for Romney if he is the nominee. If they want war, they’ve got it!

[Thunder90]

Next, they will tell us not to be so “hostile” to Obama during the general election. They are trying to rig it so that Obama wins, the Dems take the house, and retain the Senate. They also want to set up a Jeb Bush run in 2016.

[Hotlanta Mike]

As Newt says, Romney will manage the decline...

[WILLIALAL]

Know your enemy. As is becoming evident, it is how much the Republican and Democratic parties are alike. It is about the power and the money. Always. Doesn’t matter whether there is a (R) or a (D) in front of the name, if they are in DC they all smell the same.

Thomas Jefferson was right, The tree of liberty....

[Chgogal]

Why vote for the fake Obama when you can vote for the 100% genuine real deal Obama?

[ROTB]

wow. They even all have the same expression on their faces.

nice!!

[ROTB]

Seriously.

If Romney is the Nominee, then:

- Newt, Palin, and West should go into a room
- Two emerge as the ticket for a new conservative party
- All 3 campaign

The Whigs are dead, are they not? Why not the current “Republican Party”??

[onyx]

GRAND IDEA!

[Matchett-PI]

You beat me to it! LOL bttt

[APatientMan]

Is Ebben Raves a FReeper? Good stuff.

[Christie at the beach]

Thank you for sharing. I think our country is at a crossroads. Florida is a huge battle in this fight. Newt is a brilliant person whom deeply understands the history of America. That commitment to America has been proven for very many years. His speeches are inspiring.
He doesn't see himself as above us. At one of his rallies, he seem down to earth and polite though still in a direction to beat Romney. He has been fighting the left for many years. The left are in fear of his ideas because it is totally radically different than theirs. Romney can be easily transformed to their ideology because it is very similar to theirs (Obamacare). This entire primary has been an abuse of power on display. The GOP insiders-the media and the people that we admire who say they are for conservatism have been very unprofessional. Those groups may say that the campaigns are dirty though they have succeeded in becoming unethical. I would take bold changes over the country club dividing our people into groups any day. There is No way a politician like Romney should even be in the top tier of this campaign due to socialism health care plan he set into law. Now, we have Pam Bondi letting the cat out of the bag, saying she will help Romney on a National health Task force. That is real influence peddling. He is going to be the worse person elected who will help his Wall Street friends and let the country come second. We, the people, have to stop their agenda and by not forcing Romney on us and supporting Newt we may have a chance of reforming the way Washington works. Don't they get it-we are all good people-we are tired of sitting here watching them do things that we don't do in our own lives as they change our liberties into controlled mandates. You cannot take someone freedoms away then expect the people not to react.

[gaijin]

Loved Drudge, but....I can’t take a chance of Newt not getting elected, sorry.

If it’s Romney, well....I just won’t vote at all.

Screw the freaking Republicans —Romney is McCain, is Dole, is Ford is the loyal opposition.

GO NEWT...!

If it’s for all the marbles, my choice is Newt or nothing.

—>NEWT OR NOTHING.<—