Posted on 12/06/2012 9:41:09 PM PST by SaraL
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Two developments in the Republican Party point to its future: South Carolina's Jim DeMint announced his retirement from the United States Senate to serve as president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, and the Reuters News Service reports that GOP House Speaker John Boehner is purging conservative Tea Party members from key committees "as he seeks to tighten control over his unruly caucus ahead of difficult votes on 'fiscal cliff' issues."
The consolidation of America's one-party state begins.
You see, it matters not how conservative a Republican you send to Congress if his vote (and yours indirectly) is negated by the gelding brothers John Boehner (House) and Mitch McConnell (Senate).
"I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas," said Sen. DeMint in a statement announcing his departure from the Senate. DeMint told the Wall Street Journal's Dan Henninger, "This is an urgent time, because we saw in the last election we [Republicans] were not able to communicate conservative ideas that win elections."
In short, DeMint had an epiphany: His party's leadership is unable to "communicate conservative ideas" because they and the party they lead are not conservative. And believing they are requires a tortured redefinition of the term "conservative."
I have been a registered Republican my entire adult life. But the neutering of the GOP by its establishment mafia has left me no choice: At the earliest opportunity, I'll part company with the Party of Lincoln and register as an Independent.
I can't support a party that has become nothing more than the women's auxiliary of the Democratic Party.
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Sir, you ask questions I have wracked my mind with over the last 7 years.
The answers as to why no one is taking to the streets is myriad. Ultimately - it boils down to several factors, the main one being that few are willing to allow themselves to understand and believe what is actually happening.
This is a common reaction by a people who never faced abject tyranny in their lifetimes. I do not know how many accounts I’ve read since I was a kid about how the Jews absolutely refused to believe they were being exterminated some 70 years ago - even when being stripped of their clothes and marched to gas chambers.
What’s wrong with people? They think we will last forever, that this way of life that all of us have known most of our lives will continue unabated. They cannot contemplate anything else.
Another factor is witnessing the demonization of those that have already risen up in opposition to this regime and the Democrats. The TEA Party rallies, the Town Halls - the labels that the MarxoFascists and their media put upon them stuck. And no one is yet willing to risk their life to be seen as an extremist domestic terrorist.
History demonstrates that it is always after a group is demonized by their government, that criminalization and eradication always follow.
See, the narrative has been set and is established that the TEA Party/Conservative Christians are domestic terrorists just waiting to strike. The other fact of history is that Marxists ALWAYS require bloodshed in the streets before enacting the iron fist required to take complete and total control of a nation. Often by the screams of a people who DEMAND that the regime return things to normal - and refill the store shelves, even if the regime itself is responsible for emptying them and causing a conflict. A suffering people will sell their birthrights for a bowl of soup, betray their own flesh and blood for a mere promise of bread. A fact of human nature that the Marxist understands and is prepared to exploit.
Another factor of lethargy is when people think that the majority of their countrymen want Marxist Socialism. They are not going to risk being arrested and seen as an enemy to the state. It will happen anyway - but most hope the alligator will eat them last.
A people having abandoned God - are left to themselves and scripture indicates such a people will stand for nothing but a status quo and will flee from an enemy in seven directions rather than standing up to oppose them.
>> First, let’s stipulate that the GOP-e absolutely sucks
We shouldn’t need to stipulate the obvious, but it seems necessary in this thread for some reason.
My definitions:
- GOP: basically the GOP establishment/structure including the operational hierarchy that extends downward to the local level
- RINO: GOP establishment candidates, pundits, operatives, and elected officials.
- Republican party: the constituents and the candidates ‘we’ elect, not the establishment.
Yes, junk mail. That's about all they do.
Everybody has their own perspective.
True, and mine is that she's a taker.
Nice, hardworking or not, people who work for the government are takers.
People who create wealth are "makers".
Red Team, Blue Team, Same Team...
Agreed. Both represent the same international global crony corporate NYC banker team that views our national sovereignty as a huge annoyance and barrier to their plans to globalize the USA, and continue using taxpayers as their sugar daddies.
I have been watching what the GOP has been doing to conservatives. Damn right I’m fed up but, I’m not crazy. I will use the GOP to get local conservatives in it in order to topple the GOP-e. As long as I register as GOP I can vote for conservatives in their primaries. Contribute only to your conservative candidates, not the GOP.
Third parties do not work.
I learned everything I needed to know about the GOP during the Clinton impeachment. Unfortunately, I also bought the notion that helping the Gutless Old Pretenders win would somehow get them to throw us a bone now and then. The only bones they ever threw at us were while we were bending over for them.
They sure do get upset when you tell them that you aren’t going to play their game any more. I’ve been round and round with a long-time party hack on another forum. Somehow, it’s always my fault for not donating millions of dollars I don’t have and quitting my job so I have time to campaign for “principled conservative Republicans” who never turn out to be what they say they are. They never want to admit that every campaign sings the same tune, and that song is forgotten just before repeating the oath they don’t intend to honor, either.
Same here on all points, except I am 43 (hanging on to that year (: )
“Where’s the stamina?”
Definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over andover again expecting different results. I am done with the GOP. Enough thinking that the party establishment has the same goal I do; they don’t.
“Boy are you gonna get a lot of junk mail. “
99 out of 100 pieces of political junk mail and phones calls came from the GOP this last election.
“I’ll support DeMint.”
Unfortunately, DeMint supports Dingy Harry.
Medicare Part D? Campaign Finance Reform? Power Sharing in the US Senate? Failure to make the Bush tax cuts permanent? Homeland Security Act? Patriot Act? No Child Left Behind? Drilling in ANWR?
Hang on dearly to that year.
Since I turned forty it seems like every year that goes by on the calendar, my body ages a decade.
Very well stated. You make a very good argument for trying to defeat the GOPe from within instead of doing the 3rd party bit. There’s no doubt it would take years for a 3rd party to have an effect, leaving the Left to continue destroying our country from within at their leisure. Either way, my personal belief is that fair elections are over anyway. And since I think it’s now inevitable that we’re going to crash & burn, part of me just wants to hurry up and get it over with. Why prolong the inevitable?
I don’t have any answers... All I know for sure is that I cannot and will not reward the GOPe the next time they force a RINO on me. I’ll vote at local and state levels, but I’m done with giving positive reinforcement to a group of morons who have sold their souls to stay in power. They disgust me, even more than the Dems do, if that’s even possible. At least the Left believes (and KNOWS) what they stand for. The limp-wristed GOPe won’t even stand up for Allen West and massive voter fraud!
I do remember the ‘68 riots; I think it helped shape my current conservative views, in a way. I remember thinking, even at a young age, “Good heavens. I hope these idiots don’t grow up to be in charge of our govt some day!” And yet, here we are.
Thanks for your great reply, and sorry it took so long for me to get back. Been really busy for past few weeks. :-/
“It’s simple. We live up to what we believe. We vote for people who believe as we do.”
Good luck with that. Unless we go back to paper ballots, require photo I.D. in all states, and pull out the purple ink for a post-vote finger dip, we’re not going to have valid elections anymore. That’s my personal belief, anyway. YMMV. ;-)
Apparently, as long as the current Republicans are in charge, voter fraud that costs us elections is the new norm.
Oh don’t worry, the stupidity displayed by much of the supposedly conservative right in the primary and this election forever wiped from my mind the idea that ‘we’ could ever really get our crap together.
‘Too many moderates and flat out liberals now claim the mantle of ‘conservatism’ and most of the rest go right along with every anticonservative candidate and idea out of fear and sheepish determination to not rock the boat.
Worst of all, they refuse to even acknowledge the shame of their actions and continue to make excuses, live on the plantation and mock any who hold to the original interpretation of what ‘conservative’ is.
In short, not enough people have the integrity to enable anything but liberalism to win.
But I can dream.
Thank you for the kind remarks. Unfortunately, staying with the GOPers now, for the intention of defeating them from within, is not a terribly popular idea right now.
Seemingly, there is more enthusiasm for punishing the GOPe than there is for seizing the party and using it as a vessel for advancing conservatism.
And since I think it’s now inevitable that we’re going to crash & burn, part of me just wants to hurry up and get it over with. Why prolong the inevitable?
Isn't that akin to saying that, if rape is inevitable, you would lie back and enjoy it?
Somehow, I don't think so.
Among conservatives, fatalism is another popular attitude toward the liberal hegemony these days. I wonder if we can afford it....
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