Posted on 08/15/2011 1:11:12 PM PDT by caroline2005nc
As the conservative movement has ascended, some see new tensions between conservatives and the more moderate Republican “establishment.” But that’s no longer the case, says Washington Post columnist George Will — because Republican establishment doesn’t exist.
On Sunday’s online “Green Room” segment of ABC’s “This Week,” Will said the “establishment” of the Republican Party died nearly 50 years ago.
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Yeah. I used to like medvedev, but his political views regarding conservative republicans are no longer in synch with mine
Will said the "establishment" of the Republican Party died nearly 50 years ago.If he's referring to the Goldwater campaign in 1964, which helped usher in the Reagan administration, then he's still wrong -- Nixon and Ford were moderates -- and Ford's VP Rockefeller was clearly no conservative.
George should go take in a baseball game.
Medvedev = medved. Dang autocorrect!
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The Tea Party is the anti-establishment.
There would be no Tea Party had there not been a GOP establishment doing whatever they Hell they pleased.
(Man I been dyin’ to get `ignominy’ off my chest)
I think he is fairly on point with this. Notice, he did not say there was no such thing a RINOs. We all know that there are just way too many of those critters out there. What he is saying is that there is no longer an established power base that can consistently push their RINO candidates down our throats.
Will they succeed every now and then? Yeah. But who knows if the dinosaurs were all killed out in one huge event or rather died out over a generation. The Bushes certainly failed to get Hutchinson to unseat Perry.
Like a fish denying the existence of water.
But there is most certainly a "Washington Establishment" present in the Republican party.
Being part of it, Will would be unlikely to recognize it.
I mean, George Will is sort of a sad caricature of the establishment.
Two small fry are out swimming one morning. A big salmon passes them, and says: “Good Morning boys, how is the water today?”
The fry reply “Good Morning, sir”, and once they pass the salmon, one of them asks the other: “What is water?”
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The Republican Establishment is as much an enemy of Constitutional governance as Democrats.
According to R elitists like Will, he and his fellow elitists are the “real” Republicans, and actual conservatives are kooks and nutcases.
That’s why they always want to foist horrible insider RINO establishment candidates on us.
Comrade Will is engaging in dezinformatsiya; by denying the existence of a Republican establishment he is attempting to increase its power, which is threatened by any grassroots movement such as the Tea Party. Anyone who is a conservative knows that there are Republicans who might as well be Democrats, and that many of them occupy positions with a great deal of influence and power. It becomes even more patently obvious when one considers the fact that the socialists programs advocated by the Democrats have not been halted, nor removed, even when they fail. Will protests too much- the evidence is against his claim.
Fifty years ago, there was a powerful WASP Establishment Republican complex centered on the Upper East Side of Manhattan -- Time Magazine and the New York Herald-Tribune, First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan -- and extending out through Harvard, Yale, and Princeton connections across the country to take in General Motors, United States Steel, General Electric, Goodyear, and the rest of corporate America.
It's all gone. Some of the periodicals and corporations are gone or are in trouble. Others have turned Democrat. The real power in the Republican party is elsewhere. Those old WASPs are dead or Democrats or feeling very out of place in the GOP.
Look at it this way: when some liberal talks about "conservative Democrats" don't you want to point out that the old "conservative Democrats" -- Stennis, Russell, Eastland, Ervin, McClellan, Byrd* -- are long gone and that any Democrat in Congress today can't really be called a conservative?
If you've thought about it, you probably do. It's the same way with liberal Republicans and the "Republican Establishment." Whatever's around today isn't really worthy of the name compared to what once was.
I think Will's correct in the sense that there's no longer a backroom group that steers the nomination process. The primary system has done away with that.
What we call the "establishment" is really just the remnants of the old, go-along-to-get-along progressive Republicans. We can eliminate them through elections, something the establishment wasn't subject to.
Does Will know that the true democrat party has been dead since then as well. The TRUE DEMOCRAT PARTY that worked hard to PUT PEOPLE TO WORK instead of send the jobs out of the country. What an idiot.
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