Posted on 01/30/2012 12:08:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The RepublicanParty has a tenuous hold on the conservative movement in America. At present the only home for the 40 per cent of the electorate that identify themselves as conservative is the Republican Party, but it appears that those who are nominally identified as the "Republican Establishment" are doing all they can to alienate the vast majority of the current base of the Party.
There is no office on ConnecticutAvenue in Washington with a sign reading "The RepublicanEstablishment" or the "The Democratic Establishment"; rather it is an amalgam of like-minded groups with one common interest: control of the government purse-strings.
The Republican Establishment is made up of the following: 1) many current and nearly all retired Republican national office holders whose livelihood and narcissistic demands depends upon fealty to Party and access to government largesse; 2) the majority of the conservative media, including pundits, editors, writers and television news personalities based in Washington and New York whose proximity to power and access is vital to their continued standard of living; 3) numerous think-tanks and members thereof who are waiting to latch on to the next Republican administration for employment and ego-gratification; and 4) the reliable deep pocket political contributors and political consultants whose future is irrevocably tied to the political machinery of the Party.
The overriding interest of this cabal has been and continues to be: the accumulation of power through the control of the income, borrowing and spending by the Federal Government. Thus, with the exception of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the Republican controlled House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, the Republican members of the Ruling Class have been content since 1952 to merely slow down the big-government policies of the Democrats while publicly decrying their tax and spend policies.
This insider apparatus has been the....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We've already waited too long. I believe we're in one of the situations described by Churchill .... we're certainly at the point where "you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival" ... and I suspect we might be further 'down the road' than that.
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Churchill
The remains of the free world is watching this election — it will decide if their futures are carved in stone or if Americans again can save the world.
One of the best articles I’ve ever read. The GOPE has hung themselves. May they die a painful death.
Yes, the unmasking of some of them really hurt....I feel betrayed.
Coulter was a particularly painful revelation :-(
Now I can barely stand to see her gaunt face....when she appears on FOX, I just change stations.
Cultural hegemony is the philosophic and sociological theory, by the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, that a culturally diverse society can be dominated (ruled) by one social class, by manipulating the societal culture (beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values) so that its ruling-class worldview is imposed as the societal norm, which then is perceived as a universally valid ideology and status quo beneficial to all of society, whilst benefiting only the ruling class.[1][2]
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There are already plenty of third parties; Libertarian and U.S. Constitution Party to name a few. If it wasn’t for the fact that election boards do not acknowledge anything other than the two major parties, I would join the USConst. Party. The primary reason I remain a Republican is so I can try to vote for the most conservative candidate in primaries, but since the Establishment of the party seems determined to choose a RINO for the 2nd presidential election in a row before the primary even gets around to my state, staying within the GOP really has lost it’s draw.
The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan [Newt said this book explained Ronald Reagan's leadership]
It has been melded since Ronaldus Magnus bequeathed us the Bushes. The BOHICA Party emerged and have been working long and hard to divide us and confuse us. It is time for a Conservative Party to rise up.
"Under my plan, the cost of [food, fuel, energy, water, oxygen, etc.] will necessarily skyrocket."
This article didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, but it’s the best description of the issues I’ve ever read. This article nails everything to a “T”.
In addition to the GEE-OH-PEE, a lot of people have identified themselves as being part of the problem and in doing so have damaged their careers. For example, I liked Ann Coulter and have bought all her books. My daughter even had Ann sign her Kindle when Ann spoke at Georgetown recently. I will never buy another Coulter book or even watch her when she pops up on my TV. Ann’s intellectual dishonesty in recent months has been a sad thing to witness.
As for the GEE-OH-PEE, I would vote for Gingrich but certainly not for Romney. It’s become painfully obvious that the GEE-OH-PEE establishment doesn’t care if they win the presidency, so why should I?
The GEE-OH-PEE knows that it doesn’t have to win the presidency to pursue its goals as described in this excellent article. In fact, the GEE-OH-PEE seems to prefer to be out of power so that it can lie to conservatives by telling them that it wanted to do the conservative thing but the Democrats just wouldn’t allow them to do it.
If Gingrich is not the nominee, it’s a no-brainer that the only thing to do is to vote for anyone but Obama or Romney. It won’t make a dime’s worth of difference which of those two abominations is elected.
Regardless of whether it gets to that point or not, there's no way I'll cast a vote for Willard; and I'd like to think and hope that everyone of us who can't stand the arrogant, punk-of-a-con-man will not vote for him either, even if it means an Obama second term.
I like “The Founder’s Party.”
Good morning! A most excellent article which articulates what most of us are thinking.
We should all send it to our GOP reps with a notation “what he said.” :)
The GOP failure is an everyday event.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
Good idea and say that you've cc'd it to everyone you know.
bttt
Well, I donated to Santorum a month ago on the spur of the moment. Still like him the best, but I don’t think he has much chance. So - I sent $100 to Newt. Hope I don’t jinx him! (I also donated to Cain early on, and Duncan Hunter last time.... You get the point!)
“In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power. Among whites here in America, the political teams are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans. The whites who are now struggling for control of the American political throne are divided into “liberal” and “conservative” camps. The white liberals from both parties cross party lines to work together toward the same goal, and white conservatives from both parties do likewise.”
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