Anyone can sit an point fingers but it's time to make specific recommendations. If I were running for office, I would want someone helping me who has a history of WINNING!! The market should take care of this problem. Maybe we just don't have to worry about these losers, who is going to rehire them?
Something else that is missing from all these criticisms is the acknowledging the status of the American people. My opinion has become that we now have a nation of takers feeling entitled to the produce of others. Now, let's get real and look at the big picture instead of repeatedly focusing on the evil establishment", as though they are the complete picture.
I totally agree. I would like to seem some backbone / guts / passion like this: Grab a microphone, call a new conference, gather some CONSERVATIVE reps/senators and read off a list of garbage that the congress has funded, is planning on funding and begin to uncover the mess that is in DC. IE, Hurricane Sandy $60 billion is piled with perks for Alaska, DC etc. Why is NASA now a Muslim outreach? Follow the money. John Kerry for SoS? He purgered himself years ago to congress when he lied about Vietnam. TELL the country. You get my drift and it would be an endless list.
The conservatives are being pummelled by the Dems, the Press, vilified by the liar in Chief. And worse yet, when a conservative DOES stand up and shout the truth, people like McCain, Boehner, McConnel all pounce on them. Dems sit back and laugh. We need to take control. Write letters to the editors, elect GOP governors (been successful in that arena) stand up for STATES RIGHTS, stop allowing the Federal Government to overpower the states. Remind the lefty whackos that if they don't like it in the USA MOVE to a country that HAS gun control, that HAS free health care, that HAS socialized redistribution of wealth, Cradle to Grave Gubt care. LEAVE this great nation alone.
I know. The GOP elite isn't old (or new) Manhattan money. They don't all get together at the Yale Club to decide things. They don't give marching orders through Time or the Herald-Tribune any more. It's hard to know just who they are.
A lot of them are lobbyists and campaign consultants. People who started stuffing envelopes for Bush or Dole or McCain and worked their way up to partnerships in lobbying firms and even talking head roles on cable television. Some of them are editors or contributors to The Weekly Standard or National Review or (like the guy who wrote the article) nationalreview.com.
Some of them are people with money who give big campaign contributions. They have a lot of power, obviously. But it looks like it's more after the fact. What I mean, is they can get favors from a candidate or office-holder, and their contributions can move a candidate closer to the nomination, but they don't pick Romney's or McCain's or Bush's name out of a hat.
The political people, campaign consultants, columnists, lobbyists, editorialists, are usually first on the scene and point the money men in one direction or the other. Also, the big money folks aren't as identifiable as they once were -- not all Rockefellers and Whitneys. Most of the big names you recognize actually give to the Democrats.
Easiest one there is: Anyone who’s been in office more time than they’re been in the private sector DOESN’T GET THE VOTES required to continue being a career politician.
Get the layers, lobbyists, etc. OUT of office and normal people...People that pay bills, make the payroll, DO something for a living aside from making more laws.