Posted on 10/13/2011 10:37:09 AM PDT by neverdem
It wasn’t that long ago that Republican moneymen and operatives in Washington were moping around K Street like Eeyore in the Hundred Acre Wood, lamenting their party’s extremist image and casting about for a candidate with a chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. Citing what he called the “near self-immolation” of House Republicans during the debt-ceiling fiasco, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, worried in early August that a “large number of Republican primary voters, and even more independent general-election voters, will be wary of supporting a Republican candidate in 2012 if the party looks as if it’s in the grip of an infantile form of conservatism.”...
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If that’s the case, then it now seems like only a matter of time before the Republican empire, overwhelmed by insurrection for much of the last two years, strikes back at last. “I think it’s waning now,” Scott Reed, a veteran strategist and lobbyist, told me when we talked about the Tea Party’s influence last month. Efforts to gin up primaries next year against two sitting senators — Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Indiana’s Dick Lugar — have been slow to gain momentum, Reed said, and it’s notable that more than half of the 50-plus members of the Tea Party caucus in the House ultimately fell in line and voted with Speaker John Boehner on his debt-ceiling compromise. Party leaders have managed to bleed some of the anti-establishment intensity out of the movement, Reed said, by slyly embracing Tea Party sympathizers in Congress, rather than treating them as “those people.”
Did he mean to say that the party was slowly co-opting the Tea Partiers?
“Trying to,” Reed said. “And that’s the secret to politics: trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing that you’re trying to control them.”...
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This election is about We The People vs the media/political elites. Obama is the light work after the battle. I know who should win this battle but only time and a lot of hard work will make it so.
Nor is it about liberalism vs conservatism.
This election is all about Washington vs The Rest of Us.
“This election is all about Washington vs The Rest of Us”
Well stated.
GOP establishment couldn’t be more patronizing toward TEA Party. Corrupt bastages...
Hey RINO’s, watch what happens in the next election, just like the 2010 landslide, pushing out some more RINO GOP!
Krystal light needs to find another job, (Weekly Standard) since the GOP RINO Romney (his boy) is going down!
The GOP elitist will not pick my candidate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reed can go to hell with the rest of the RINO’s
GOP establishment couldn’t be more patronizing toward TEA Party. Corrupt bastages...
Yep, it is about whether the status quo establishment (amnesty, open borders, homosexuals, EPA nonsense, NEA sedition, union thuggery, encroaching Marxist police state) supported by both parties, prevails, or whether or not American are able to wrestle their government away from the beltway beast that has seized it.
Romney, more than any of the other is the status quo perpetuated. He is the establishment's guy.
Reed’s quotes are, in my opinion, cynical and braggart.
So, he thinks the Tea Party people don’t know they’re (Republican establishment) attempting to “control” us?
Maybe us “hobbits” aren’t as STUPID as they seem to think.
I’d like to have a ‘Grip on them’. That’s for sure....Come November 2012 or before in a primary, whichever RINO GOP Senator from Georgia is running (Isakson or Chambliss), I’m gonna vote-wring the life out of them. Every time I turn around they’re backsliding into a liplock on Obama’s ass.
NO FRICKING MORE RINOS! These two are as bad as Boehner or any of the other RINOs....
No, this is typical NYTimes doing their “DIVIDE AND CONQUER” of the GOP and the right.
We let the liberal media create so much distrust of our own side that is distracts us from what the President and the Democrats are doing daily (screwing us badly) and preventing us from uniting and fighting against it.
That could be a campain slogan!
No, this is typical NYTimes doing their “DIVIDE AND CONQUER” of the GOP and the right.
We let the liberal media create so much distrust of our own side that is distracts us from what the President and the Democrats are doing daily (screwing us badly) and preventing us from uniting and fighting against it.
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