Posted on 06/30/2013 8:35:36 AM PDT by Absolutely Nobama
In the days after the whimpering defeat of Mitt Trotsky, the RINO National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (whoever the hell he is) did an "autopsy" on the Republican Party. In this "autopsy", it was determined that the Republican Party needed a "bigger tent". The gist of the report was this: The party was too white, too Christian, and too male. The only way to get out of the loser's bracket was to pander to as many minorities as possible.
What a load of crap.
You see ladies and gentlemen, regardless of what the hapless Bill Kristol will tell you, regardless of the non-stop propaganda of Tokyo Rove and his acolytes at the FOX Neocon Channel (FNC), pandering to artificial ethnic and social groups will get you nowhere. What leads political parties out of the wilderness is doing what your base wants. After all, a party's base is its engine.
There are two great examples of the above theory. The French Revolution of 2008 that swept the Authoritarian Left and their false messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, into power and the American Revolution of 2010 that brought a degree of Conservatism back to Washington. (Where it was promptly sabotaged by the Weeper of the House and his cronies, but I digress.)
In both examples, the parties gave the base what they wanted. In 2008, the Democrat Party's base shed its last vestiges of Americanism. The libs wanted fascism and Big Brother controlling every aspect of human existence in the United States. Thus, the party responded by handing them the former Barry Soetoro and the drunken Joe Biteme. In 2010, the RNC got the hint and didn't severely persecute Tea Party candidates, despite pleas from Tokyo Rove and his ilk. Thus, the 2010 midterm elections turned into a massacre as the independents and Reagan Democrats came home.
But in 2012, things went back to normal for the Republicans. The party's Conservative grassroots activists were treated like Orwellian unpersons again. Mitt Trotsky and his putrid record as the governor of Taxachussetts were trotted out like a prized dancing horse by the RINO Herd as the only human being able to defeat a failing and flailing Barack Hussein Obama. Tea Party and Conservative candidates were treated like pariahs with leprosy and were openly opposed by the usual suspects (Rove, Kristol, Sheikh Ali Paul and the Paulestinians) and were defeated as the base blew off the 2012 Popularity Contest and stayed home.
In 2012 however, the Democrat Party stayed the course. They knew that keeping base happy is the key to victory. Thus, they invented the "war on women", gathered as many dead voters as they could, and screamed that the Republican Party was the latest incarnation of the Third Reich. Sure, they couldn't sell Obama as the guy who would lower the oceans and heal the earth anymore, but that was no longer the goal. DNC chair Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and her fellow Jew haters realized that there was no way on God's green and cooling earth that they could make the American people Hussein in the Membrane anymore. They also realized that the usual election rigging wouldn't carry them over the goal line either, no matter how many members of the US military were disenfranchised and how many fake talking points about the 9/11/12 attack in Benghazi were thrown out to the lazy and arrogant media. Thus they doubled down on their Marxist propaganda and dragged Obama's carcass across the finish line.
Now let's return from our stroll down Memory Hole Lane. The Democrat Party is still goosestepping to beat of the same Hitlerjugend drummer. They're still screaming for social "justice", demanding that homosexuals have the right to "marry", no one should have the right to bear arms, illegal alien criminals are better than native born Americans, and all of the rest of the anti-American crap that they've been babbling about ever since the first Progressiviks crawled out primordial soup of failed European political theory in the early 20th century. Thus, the base is happy, no matter how much the NSA spies on them.
And what's the Republican Party doing ? It's doing what it does best: Stabbing its Conservative base in the back.
As a rule, the vast majority of Conservatives are vehemently opposed homosexual "marriage", gun control, amnesty for illegal alien criminals, raising taxes, and all the rest. And yet, the Republican Party's glitterati supports these and many other leftist ideals. Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan are leading the charge to grant amnesty to the scumbags who spit on American sovereignty and hopped over the virtual fence. Rob Portman and Ileana Ros Lethinen think destroying the institution of marriage is the way to go. Tea Party traitor Pat Toomey joined up with the National Socialist Left and decided that the Second Amendment no longer applies in the United States. John McLame and Lindsey Grahamnesty weren't content with just opening the door wide open to illegal aliens and whatever else comes across the southern border, the Same Sex Senators (h/t Mark Levin) were instrumental in making sure Chairman Obama armed al-Qaeda in Syria. Oh, by the way, in case you forgot, the Weeper of the House folded his tent and failed to fight against Obama's tax hike in January.
I'd be hard pressed to call any of the above keeping the base happy. I'd also be hard pressed to call it a winning strategy.
True enough.
You bet. Yours is one of the best original articles I've seen on Free Republic in too long a time to count.
Thank you for giving voice to so many of our thoughts.
I’ve always had the idea of an insurance card burning rally....
Maybe now is the time...
I feel the earth moving.
I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
How 'bout we burn our Republican party voter registration cards instead? All across the country. Maybe that'll get the sell-outs in Washington to sit up and take notice.
Posted this earlier today on the big thread...
I have renewed hope with this and a couple other threads in the last couple days. I see many of the names I have argued with since the primaries coming around to our way of thinking and realizing that the lesser evil/win at any price crap is just that.
To be sure, there are some hardcore statist types determined to mock us, but, and I address this to anyone still reading this thread, they have nothing ‘but’ mockery.
The facts of history are what they are. One does not go right by moving left. Someone DID vote for unprincipled GOP politicians and got them elected. Those unprincipled GOP politicians DID stand idly by while DOMA was tanked. They DID vote with the dems on amnesty. They DID NOTHING to stop a gay takeover in the military.
And they HAVE DONE NOTHING to defund Obama’s destruction of America. Not one damn thing. If they did, then show it.
Now on a near 500 post thread with a wide cross section of the Freeper body politic participating, I want the lesser evil defenders to show us all exactly WHY we should go with that broken philosophy when the past month has CLEARLY and UNAMBIGUOUSLY shown the very real results of what comes from it.
We have here the seed of the actual ‘Rebellion” that Jim talks about actually sprouting. —For real.— We have people waking up to their past mistakes and saying “No More!”
And yet, and like clockwork, we have people demanding we get our collective tails back in the closet and back to the GOP plantation.
If all the new converts really and genuinely have had a come to Jesus moment over this, and I pray to God they have, I want people to stand up for what they believe in. I want them to stand up and reject our past mistakes and tell these GOP suckups to go straight to hell. If we collectively can’t do that, something that basic and simple to the issue, then I really do not see the point in even discussing the matter at all. We should all just drop politics entirely and do what we are told.
Amen, brother.
Bottom line - you get what you vote for. Keep voting for stealth Democrats, and that's exactly what the political class will continue to serve up to us.
That's exactly what happened in the last two elections. In 2008, enough decent Americans surrendered their solemn votes to the traitorous cabal in the RNC, that they felt rewarded, and gave us more of the same in 2012.
The big brains in the RNC then performed an 'autopsy' to figure out why we lost again, and came to the conclusion that they'd better widen the 'tent' and double down on their leftward slide.
The morons can't see that they're driving their base away from the party. They're watching the Democrats win, and are drawing the wrong conclusion, i.e., that they're winning elections because of their political philosophy. That's only partially true. The Dems win elections because their candidates don't stray off the party reservation, and that's why their base overwhelmingly supports them.
It's never occurred to the dim bulbs running our party that if their candidates did the same as the opposition, that is, stand firmly on the principles their base endorses, that they'd win too.
I think many people just do not want to accept facts in evidence and so, get stuck in the denial stage of the 5 stages of (political) grief.
The GOP wants to go left. They WANT it.
If I was athe head of a group that I saw would WILLINGLY OR NOT, vore for whatever I fed them, I’d feed them whatever I wanted, confident that even though they may bitch, I’d still get my way.
Conservatives need to read the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and The Prince by Machiavelli before casting another vote for anyone...READ AND UNDERSTAND.
Lastly, Freepers need to get off the sidelines and fight back ONLINE against the GOP shills, the mockery and the BS just as they do in real life because the internet IS real life. Things here translate to real world opinion....Lurkers, this means YOU.
I get that people do not want to get hit with the truckloads of horsesXit that people like you and I do for standing our ground. I get that. But they no longer have a choice. It’s pretty hard to be a patriot when you sit silently and allow the propagandists on web forums to direct the opinions of the country.
And for those that think what we say here is compartmentalized, ask Dan Rather what he thinks of Freeper ‘opinion’.
Not a bad idea, either.
Yup, all their mailings go into the trash, until the Republican Party starts using the money they do get in ways that strongly differentiate them from the socialist infiltrated Democratic Party. They talk a good case in their letters and appeals for money and then wind up foolishly caving on those very issues with nothing gained.
Actually, they come over to me as regarding Conservative activists as a positive embarrasment.
Thanks for the ping.
I dunno. 3rd party is scary, but perhaps it’s the way. It worked in Canada, and might in the UK although I think it’s easier to pull off in a parliamentary system of government.
I don’t know what to do to be honest. I know I’m all over the place on this thread, but this is such a huge issue.
>>I don’t know what to do to be honest.
There’s a lot of that going around these days.
Indeed. They all campaign and fund raise with Conservative rhetoric, but it’s all just gas.
As soon as they get in office, with a few exceptions, they turn hard left and betray us and our country.
I may be throwing the baby out with the bath water, but ALL their junk mail goes into the bin unopened.
How to win elections?
Get more votes than the other guys.
A more important question:
How to win elections and have it matter:
Strictly vet your candidates on core non-negotiable principles, hold them perpetually accountable to those principles, and to We the People, then get more votes than the other guys.
It's one thing to vet them and another to flaunt those principles when it only harms the inability to win elections.
This is one strategy of the left we have to imitate. They had a long term agenda going back a decade or more with issues like gun grabbing, gay marriage, etc., but kept a low profile on them until the timing was right. They did not allow them to be part of the national election debate and kept them under the radar because at the time do to otherwise was political suicide. They spent years preparing the groundwork and they struck at the right time. Look at how successful they have been.
We, on the other hand, do just the opposite. We force our candidates to take wildly unpopular very public positions on our core values. Then the candidate gets defined by them within those groups where they are unpopular (with a huge assist from the MSM) and bye, bye, to a significant percent of the vote for no good reason at all. We should not compromise, but should recognize the fact that in a war sometimes a frontal assault is suicidal.
BTW, you didn’t post a link to Alan’s site.
And unfortunately, the Republican leadership is in the same boat.
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