Posted on 01/15/2014 8:40:30 AM PST by Shery
SPECIAL REPORT CLARK CLIFFORD REPUBLICANS The GOP Establishment shell game: when winning is losing.
By Jeffrey Lord 10.18.11 (reprint)
"Clark is a wonderful fellow. In a day when many are seeking a reward for what they contributed to the return of the Democrats to the White House, you don't hear Clark clamoring. All he asked in return was that we advertise his law firm on the backs of one-dollar bills." -- John F. Kennedy on Washington lobbyist and ex-Truman aide Clark Clifford
What can one say?
Is there any wonder Tea Party supporters think they are always in danger of being played?
In a Republican Establishment shell game.
Sunday's New York Times Magazine brought a long cud-chewer titled "Does Anyone Have a Grip on the GOP? The GOP Elite Tries to Take It's Party Back."
In which all manner of people who perhaps should have thought twice or four times sat down with a reporter for America's premiere left-wing journal of left-wing record and stripped naked precisely the problem with the "Republican Establishment."
As with anyone who has worked in Washington, I can say, to update a sentiment that was once used almost exclusively in a racial context, "some of my best friends are ...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
http://spectator.org/articles/57419/gop-why-victory
Thanks.
No, the RINOs are the interlopers. We’re trying to take our party back.
Isn’t it amazing how the party elite, who claim they support small government, et al, when running for re-election feel that WE are the problem after the election? The party platform reads that we believe in small government. Their reading of this means only when running for office, not in actuality.
Thanks for posting this follow-up article. Deserves its own thread.
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