Racket Republicans (From 2019)

Vanity | Rodney Dodsworth

[Jacquerie]

“Every great cause,” wrote the philosopher Eric Hoffer, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Having led the anti-slavery movement to its culmination some 160 years ago, and since setting the stage for explosive national growth and prosperity in the latter 19th century, the guiding principle of today’s GOP is . . . ?

We shouldn’t be disappointed, ever, by the Racket Republicans. As a group, what do Republicans in Congress stand for other than reelection? Hardly a week goes by in which patriots aren’t saddened. Name the issue. Democrats pack up like dogs. Pubbies scatter like cats. Conservative platforms shout “rino!” as these people collude, no matter the harm to our nation, with democrats to take down President Trump. We are disillusioned yet typically vote for them every two years because the alternative is too disgusting, the idea of adding janissaries to Nancy and Chuck’s jihad against all that is good. We are stuck voting for either bad or worse. Or are we?

As Obama destroyed the economic future of millions of young adults, opened the southern border, seeded muslims around the country, and funded Iranian terror and nukes to the tune of billions of dollars, the GOP curled up in a corner. Nary a peep. They were happy to go along as a radical transforming President divided the nation into warring groups.

Ex-Senator Jeff Flake (R) of Arizona was the Never Trump poster boy. Elected in 2012, his polling numbers tanked in proportion to his public criticism of President Trump. Days after leaving office this year, he signed on with CBS News. They can’t balance a budget but they sure can stuff their pockets.

Just weeks before the 2016 election, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan publicly disinvited Donald Trump to a campaign rally and announced would not support his candidacy. When Trump won, Ryan said he’d support funding a border wall. Oops. Sorry. He didn’t mean it. Neither did Mitch McConnell.

Despite the President’s growing coattails, so many Republican declined to run for office in 2018 that Nancy won the House. The Racketeers just knew the Russia investigation was going to take him out, and a post-Watergate style blowout of the GOP was certain. Why stick around to get slaughtered?

No-name Obama-appointed district court judges stop the lawful workings of the executive branch at every turn. Where the Racket Republicans? Not a word of complaint or even promises (tell me sweet little lies) to invoke its Article III powers to put a leash on the judicial curs.

This next betrayal really hurt. A man whom I once admired, John McCain, voted against repeal of an unconstitutional and horrid burden called Obamacare. A McCain courier delivered the Clinton Dossier to the FBI. This former patriot turned against his country to get even with Trump for a few awful comments during a campaign debate. Ted Cruz got over similar ill-considered words. McCain could not.

When Trump declared a national emergency to build a border wall, twelve senate pubbies voted against him. Racket Republicans and democrats shamelessly invoked the Constitution, the one that many democrats think can remove a President upon impeachment alone.

Where was Racket support for Nicholas Sandmann, a young teenager whose social justice crime was wearing a MAGA ballcap? Calling out the fake news assaults (which is going to cost NBC, WaPo and others tens of millions of $. Heh, heh.) on this kid was politically perilous? Really?

Hardly a week ago when the President and Melania were on their way to honor D-Day, GOP Senators undermined his efforts to pressure Mexico to stop the third world invasion. They just won’t support this President. And they don’t even have the class to oppose him privately; they squawk publicly at pressers or on the Sunday yik-yak shows.

Normalizing rinos. A rino group, “Republicans for the Rule of Law” this past week urged GOP members of Congress to take seriously allegations of obstruction of justice made against the President. Rather than demand the heads of coup leaders Obama, Lynch, Rice, Clinton, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, etc., the Racket Republicans prefer to eat their own.

Lawfare. What about the enormous stress and expense Robert Mueller and his rabid democrat lawyers inflicted on hundreds of people associated with President Trump? A casual observer might warn that it’s wise to keep an arm’s length away from Trump. How can the President man the executive branch? Where the pubbie outrage?

Make Laventy Beria proud. For the crime of leading Trump’s campaign to victory over cuddly Hillary Clinton, deranged democrats expect wheelchair-bound Paul Manafort to die in solitary confinement at Rikers Island. Who’s next?

Democrats regard the felonies, diseases, drug overdoses, murders, and strain of public services attributable to illegal immigration as acceptable collateral damage in exchange for votes. Racket Republicans apparently do too.

The GOP held both Congress and the Presidency several times these past forty years. It had every opportunity to ban ballot harvesting and other corrupt election practices. Instead, it joined the anarcho-democrats and helped pass the Cloward-Piven Motor-Voter Act of 1993.

In time for 2020, far Left social media and their radical buddies slowly strangle online conservative voices. They harass companies to remove advertising from conservative platforms and Fox News. As conservatives are kicked off YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the Racketeer Republicans do nothing. Experience shows a GOP too flaccid to protect itself will not defend the nation.

In a recent column at the GatewayPundit, Jim Hoft wrote, “It is clear the Republican Party is AWOL. They are like a shell company. Just a name and nothing else. Maybe it’s time to think about a new movement? Maybe it’s time to Brexit the GOP? When people continue to show you who they are, believe them.”

Unlike other political observers, he didn’t call for another party. Adding another to the ten or so conservative oriented second and third parties is silly. The answer isn’t another standing institution; experience shows the Left will, in time, corrupt it just as it has every other organization it infiltrates.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: gatewaypundit; jimhoft

[Jacquerie]

Just a reminder that nothing has changed.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m sure people think I’m a jerk. but I’ve given up on the GOP. People like McCain? Romney? Thune? How much do I have to put up with? It’s not a serious party and hasn’t been for at least 40 years. Trump? I like Trump very, very much. But it is a stretch to say that the Republican Party likes Trump.

We need a new party. The GOP is done.

[tumblindice]

👍 Exactly, well said.
As Reagan said, “I didn’t leave the democrat party. They left me.”
Thune is eager to do for the minority what he did for the majority.

[MachIV]

I agree that the GOP is done. I left it 6 years ago after 35 years at that time because of the gutless refusal of most in the party to fight.

Having said that, I am convinced no new political party will accomplish anything either. Demographics is destiny and the GOP is losing it because in my opinion Trump was too little too late.

There are no more political solutions.

[sjmjax]

In the Kurt Vonnegut novel “The Sirens of Titan”, the Martians, descendants of human colonists, board their space craft for the invasive of Earth.
The craft only has two controls, an “on” and an “off” button.

The “on” button activates the automated controls that fly the craft to a predetermined invasion point.

The “off” button does nothing. It is just there to give the occupants a false sense of security with the illusion that they have some control of the process.

This is a perfect metaphor for the Democrat and Republican parties.

[ComputerGuy]

Democrat politicians are in it for a cause.
Republican politicians are in it for themselves.

[central_va]

One party Marxist state is coming.

[Jacquerie]

After a lifetime of GOP registration I went Not Politically Affiliated (FL) in 2017.

I watched Speaker Paul Ryan and too many pubbies backstab PDJT as they believed the Russia, Russia, Russia collusion nonsense.

I never have and never will vote rat. I am likewise through with the Romneys, Bushes, McCains, Doles.

MAGA or nothing.

[Robert DeLong]

I think no such thing of you. I don't really care what people think of me to be quite honest. Which is why I almost always state my opinion regardless of how it may be takennm by others.

Elon Mush is starting a new part. At least that party can be funded. With his savvy he might make capable to have it funded by an invest trustfund.

Anyway, very well stated, and these idiots that are tearing up on Trump are as feckless as the Republican Party.

We will now see the Democrats do everything that the Republicans refused to do.

So, did they accomplished something great for this country? Not from my viewpoint. In fact, they seem to be resigned to accept defeat, and blame that defeat on Trump.

I agree with everything you said, including that you remain in Trump's corner, while the feckless on this board continue to tear him to shreds.

They too are part of the problem, due to ignorance.

[Robert DeLong]

Me too, and if this post was written by you as it apears to me, your post was right on target. 😁🤙

[Lurker]

It’s more true today than it was then.

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Jacquerie]

Yes, thanks.

[Dr. Sivana]

It’s not a serious party and hasn’t been for at least 40 years.

It was MUCH worse 40+ years ago. (Lefties, Criminals, Traitors)

Alaska: Ted Stevens
California: S. I. Hayakawa
Connecticut: Lowell Weicker
Illinois: Charles H. Percy
Indiana: Richard Lugar
Kansas: Nancy Kassebaum
New York: Jacob K. Javits
Oregon: Mark Hatfield, Bob Packwood
Pennsylvania: Richard Schweiker, H. John Heinz III
Rhode Island: John Chafee
South Dakota: Larry Pressler
Tennessee: Howard Baker (Minority Leader)
Virginia: John Warner

And those are just the Senators.

Changing a party is a generational struggle in our system. The movement that took over the Democrat Party began in earnest with Woodrow Wilson and wasn't really completed until the Boll Weevil and pro-life Democrats were defeated, retired, or died. But it did happen.

President Trump had toyed with the idea of going Third Party in 2000, and wisely decided against it. To use Hoffer's terms, the Movement has to defeat the Racket, but without destroying the scaffolding of the Party structure. It is tricky, like performing a heart transplant, but the Dems show it can be done.

If Perot, or Trump. or George Wallace, succeeded as a Third Party candidate, he would have no structure for the movement to outlast him. Trump WON the presidency with NO political or Military experience, and the structure at best tolerated him. If he were Third Party, it would have been worse. He would have limited influence on the caucuses.

The political solution (which took a major step back this election) is to chase out the bad guys, bring in good guys, and keep a close eye on the opportunists that role-play (you will NEVER get rid of all of them).

Some of that happened after Reagan (see the list above). More has happened since Trump, with Flakes and Paul Ryans leaving the arena and puddingheads like Lynn Cheney being humiliated on her way out.

Our system does not often allow seismic shifts, even if the Chief Executive can vary wildly from election to election. The DSA types taking over the Dem operation received their big surge back in the '60s, had critical mass with Obama, and are now poised to be dominant going forward. The Republican side started with Goldwater (despite his flaws), found success with Reagan, but received more pushback because of the stubbornness of the powers that be. Trump has been an unusually effective candidate to counter that entrenchment, but even he was stymied at times (COVID, especially).

So, politically, patience and hard work is usually a prerequisite. The other side has an advantage because they are inherently able to fund their foot soldiers with our money.

Ultimately, politics are insufficient, and men and women and families have to be virtuous and even holy to avoid the catastrophes of the other side winning a permanent monopoly on political power, as it is on the verge of doing n the EU, or a violent revolution, which will kill many, produce blood in the streets, and likely end with something authoritarian which was not the goal of the good people in the fight.