To: 2ndDivisionVet
From the
original source:
" Tea Partiers are likely to argue that the GOP lost in 2012 not because it emulated them but because it ignored them.
Thats partly why theyre fighting Karl Roves attempt to purge them why should they take the punishment when they didn't commit the crime?
On his radio show, Mark Levin asked the question that were all thinking and went on to point out thatRove was the guywho helped put Bush in to the White House,
who spent all the money that pushed America further in to debtand so put the USA where it is today.
Why should the Tea Party defer to an establishment that a) loses elections and b) governs like Democrats? To quote Levin,
These people need a hard, swift kick in the ass off the public stagebecause they're making it much more difficult to persuade more and more Americans that we have to win some elections quickly.
These people are getting rich off of this federal leviathan.They go on T.V. and talk about how awful Obama is,
They really don't think Obama is that awful.
What bothers them about Obama is that they're NOT running things, that's what really bothers them.
In short, the Tea Party revolution will continue because Tea Partiers see no need for it to end Given this, what are the establishments chances for beating them down?At first glance, poor.Thanks to the primary system theres NO REASON WHY conservative candidates SHOULDNT CONTINUE TO RUN and do well in Republican contests.
And the party machine might actually do itself HARM by campaigning AGAINST them.As Kellyanne Conway points out, Ironically, the establishment wizards tried to stop the two MOST PROMINENT Hispanic Republicans in Washington FROM WINNING the U.S. Senate seats they now hold Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Variety and ideological competition can actually HELP the GOP in the long run.
The Tea Party HASN'T been a complete disaster for the GOP.
But the establishment may yet succeed in silencing the Right IF Fox turns decisively AGAINST the Tea Party.
For that would starve them of the oxygen of national publicity and contribute to a national pivot to the centre.It looks like Roger Ailes has decided that 2012 REALLY DID MARK a historic shift in politics and that his product has to ADAPT to survive.
If this means excluding maverick voices from Fox shows,the Tea Party could end up losing its stake in the national conversation.
It will continue to make news, but its opportunity to speak for itself without hostile editorializing will be lost.
Then itll be reduced to a handful of movement media outlets without a wider audience.
Fox need a conservative competitor, right now.
Rush, it's time you bought a T.V. Channel, and let Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and others of your choosing run it.
But don't use Bill O'Reilly, because that RINO would destroy it.
37 posted on
02/08/2013 10:41:45 AM PST by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Karl Rove’s ideas have failed, white board and all.
Karl has dug his Buckley Rule defeatist hole, and only knows how to dig it deeper.
It is time for us to reject the Buckley Rule and Karl Rove.
39 posted on
02/08/2013 1:47:41 PM PST by
Graewoulf
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