They left out the part about “fragment their vote with fake populist Establishments candidates”.
Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended [the more radical Michele] Bachmann’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.
I think these are actually Romney’s debate notes, no?
This is exactly why having Freepers blabbering about how they will vote for a RINO as a last resort is damaging our chances of ever having a decent candidate.
Last but most important step: complete and utter surrender of your positions, values and philosophy in the name of compromise is never surrender.
RINO compromise=be reasonable and do it my way.
The politicrats get embedded in state and local gubamints and ya can never get rid of them. Well, Huns and Barbarians could.. RINOs are on thin ice and they know it.. :-)
Rush’s entire opening monologue was based on this very thing, today.
And a crooked one.
"Weber retired from congress in 1992, two years before the "Republican revolution", after being caught up in the House banking scandal which revealed the bank had repeatedly paid overdrafts for 125 checks on his account"
You will want to read this. See what the GOP Establishment says about Perry. Basically he is one of them and they know it.
The problem is we lost our General Grant and the Tea party went with her.
And, Step 6, lose the election to the Democrats. Being in the minority works just as well for the GOP and its elected centrists as both can rake in contributions from corporations and fat cats needing juice in D.C.
If conservatives want to use the GOP as a path to power, we must get in the party and take over the wheel at all levels, county, state and national. Kick out the RINOS. Plus, when there is a good conservative candidate running as a Republican, back him or her with money, so the candidate has a chance of winning.
It is good that in this election the RNC/establishment are specifically being called-out as Left leaning organizations.
Terms like ‘steering back to the broad center’ are clear code words for ‘Leftist status quo’.
The ass-kicking we’re going to give them in 2012 will dwarf what we gave them in 2010. The Establishment is delusional if they think otherwise.
,,,,,,,,, the republican establishment just doesn’t get it ,,,,,, the Tea Party is Americana and we’re tired of compromising with the socialist enemy . That’s how we got in this mess ,,, a bunch of RINOs trying to get along with liberals and trading pet projects for congressional votes on unpopular bills instead of holding to any conservative value system . Today there is little difference between the liberal democRATs and the establishment RINO republicans . The TEA PARTY may just be the RIGHT cure for the liberal disease and a few more election cycles should bare witness to this trend .
#5 Is good advice that I don’t think that most GOP establishment types would agree with.
From the NY Slimes article:
“But maybe all the moment requires is someone who can pass as a broadly acceptable alternative — a candidate who doesn’t project the Tea Party extremism of Michele Bachmann or the radical isolationism of Ron Paul. “If we have a Rick Perry versus Mitt Romney battle for the nomination, it’s a little hard to say, ‘Ooh, the party has really gone off the rails,’ ” Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended Bachmann’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.”
Don’t let the Party Boys Establishment pick the candidate for you. If the establishment-types don’t like a candidate, we should give that candidate a second look.
In 1776 it was the British. In 1828 it was the Federalists. In 1860 it was the Whigs. In 1912 it was the Republicans. In 1980 it was the Democrats. And now it is the progressive crony capitalists of both parties. We wont get rid of them in 2012, just like we didn't get rid of them in 1980. A true collapse of the economy will have to occur before we can throw them out and start the rebuilding out of the ashes.
The Tea Party is very much alive, and after the next election, everyone will know it. As soon as Sarah Palin announced she wasn’t running, all the media and the Republican establishment jumped onto the “Tea Party is dead” band wagon. The Tea Party isn’t Sarah Palin. It is patriots who love America, believe in America, believe in the Constitution and conservative principles. We believe in liberty, freedom and private property. We believe in the power of the individual to succeed with hard work. We believe free people don’t need big government to be responsible for them. We believe in putting Americans first. We believe in prosperity and posterity, from protected border to protected border. If the Tea Party is dead, America is dead, and I don’t see it that way.
We can kill of the republican party if we need to... keep pushing you republican party marxists and we will.
LLS