Posted on 12/27/2012 1:20:29 PM PST by IbJensen
Here's a New Year's wish I would love to see come true. However it is defined or however many people are part of it, it is time to send the giant never-ending "GOP Establishment" made up of some professional politicians, some moneyed nouveaux riche who -- by virtue of their contributions and the faux friendships it buys with politicians -- consider themselves political landed gentry and the endless scam artist consultants they support packing.
As previously stated, I thought Mitt Romney to be a better candidate than did many observers. That said, the recent revelations in news articles that claim to chronicle the Romney campaign reinforce the idea that the "silk underwear" branch of the GOP just doesn't get it.
The emerging story of a candidate who really didn't want to run in the first place and consultants who never listened to pleas from his own family to humanize the man so that everyday people could "feel like he understands them" just makes conservatives and the GOP faithful sick. They once again spent their hard-earned money and endless time backing another Republican nominee who had no prayer of connecting with the average voter. Never mind that he was, at closer examination, a young man of privilege who outgrew his silver spoon to create his own hard-earned fortune, his case was never properly made.
And why is that? The answer is the current class of Republican "experts" and "consultants" who constantly blow into somewhere outside of their self-indulgent D.C. bubble and believe that they really do understand the "average American" in the 21st century. They do not.
Same for the well-entrenched elected officials, many of whom have gone from scrappy challengers of the status quo to fat and happy potentates. The so-called "experts" just sell any sort of snake oil a candidate or elected official and his loyal leeches will swallow. Hence, terrible focus-group-driven commercials, poor strategy in message and a "get out the vote" effort about as technologically advanced as the telegraph and with all the planning for contingencies as the Hurricane Katrina emergency efforts.
Until Republicans get rid of the inherent haughtiness of their operations, nothing will change. I've always described the GOP Establishment as a bunch who will hold a fundraiser, say, with an incumbent Republican president (don't hold your breath for that again anytime soon) or a nominee, or a governor's inauguration -- you name it -- with one unmentioned thing in mind: themselves. They inevitably make the event like one of those toys with endless boxes within boxes, each smaller than the one before it. That's how they do their big "fundraisers." There's the massive box, holding the masses -- where from the distance of a football field one might catch a fleeting glimpse or hear a bit of a speech or event.
From there on, the boxes get smaller and smaller -- and more elaborate. One huge amount gets you into a private reception; the next more expensive one warrants a 10 second photograph with the political star; then there's the price-busting one that gets you a 30 person private audience -- in which every dupe there fails to note that the leader of the free world or the top person in their state listens, speaks, leaves and likely forgets the whole thing five minutes later.
Oh, and then there is that last box. It's reserved for the same snooty creatures who have run everything in their subdivision of the GOP forever. They often are there because they helped take everyone else's money! But regardless, they are there, in the most private of rooms with the highest of public leaders, just hanging out. They are a small, cozy group -- the elite of the elite. Sort of like today's Republican Party -- a small, cozy group.
If I have to read one more story about some Republican official's great golf handicap or how much they all enjoy the private company of one another, I think I'll be sick.
Republicans need to retool their image and their mindset. Just shed all the king's trappings and some of the king's men. Keep the hardworking and in-touch ones, bring in fresh faces, understand the mindset of the next generation, but more than anything articulate what they stand for and, damn it, stand for it.
A little fire in the belly and purpose for being elected and holding office in the first place could at least start to get the GOP turned around before it really is too late.
So?
What makes you think you have the right to demand that someone violate their conscience to fulfill your political agenda?
I don’t. But I’m upfront about my agenda—it’s to defeat Democrats and liberalism and that means to ALWAYS vote straight Republican—ALWAYS!! Doing it your way guarantees there will always be Democrats as far as the eye can see but you get to beat your chest and pretend you’re more pure than the evil Republicans. You’re a phony but unfortunately, there are soft minded who buy into what you’re selling.
Your statement, and your current approach to politics, has a critical internal fatal flaw, since it is obvious that it isn't only Democrats who are liberal.
No matter how much you pretend otherwise.
You are a Democrat’s best friend.
Again, I’ll pray that you can somehow overcome your deep bitterness against those who refuse to support liberals just because they have an R by their name.
That party is dead. It's time for another one.
You cannot possibly be stupid enough to believe there is any way you are fighting liberalism.
BTW, do you have another job or are you living off you stupid little "third party"? Anyone who knowlingly aided Obama to be reelected deserves contempt, not respect.
Not this “third party” crap again. Why don’t you talk with Eternal Vigilance and see how his “third party” is going. Why not yet another one? I bet if you try, yours will be different. There is a “third party” yet who has won anything. It is a pipe dream.
You mean you don't know? After having so confidently made all those accusations about my motives and actions back up the thread? Wow. Amazing.
Answer the question. You have stood there as a sentinel protecting one of the most evil men in the world and yet you want respect. People need to know who you are.
So, it’s clear, you have no idea if there is any truth whatsoever to your slanderous accusations against me further up the thread.
Why would I answer any personal question of someone who has made it so clear that their only intent is to assassinate my character?
These people like Eternal are actually lazy, selfish and some just have big ego’s. They can’t cut it within the real political system, so, much like a cult leader, they find some followers and pretend they stand for something serious. Many just don’t want to accept that 99% of politics in a relatively stable democratic system is a long, slow, awful slog. Most change comes so slowly you don’t even know it’s happening - sometimes even when you’re winning. The last time the right had a great leader on a national level was Reagan - and then, just as now, there were people like Eternal who called themselves conservatives and refused to participate in the GOP because Reagan wasn’t conservative enough. There are always deadenders like this. They are useless in the fight against the left, the best you can do is minimize any damage they might cause by pointing out how silly they are.
Says someone who just supported the most liberal governor in the history of the United States for president.
You’re not fooling anyone Eternal. You were going to run your silly vanity campaign no matter who the GOP nominee was.
You remind me of the situation a lot of free market folks experience in other countries. The populist left is very strong and, like or not, the eat the rich message will always resonate. Anyway, I’ve lived in places where the left is united and the right is so fractured because the opposition groups can’t get together and form a bloc. The result, the left wins over and over and the country shifts ever further in the wrong direction. Oh the right of center groups are all standing on principle and won’t compromise with one another, but the left doesn’t have that problem - they do whatever is necessary to move the ball and stick to fighting over their principles within the confines of a powerful political party that can win elections.
Your sense of entitlement to my vote is a figment of your imagination.
I'm not sure that makes any sense, but ooooookay.
Look Eternal, you're never going to be President - nor are you likely ever going to do anything politically significant. You are too selfish and vain to achieve anything. Like Alan Keyes, you've run a pointless vanity campaign that didn't alter the political landscape one iota. You'd have accomplished more sending out mailers down at the local GOP campaign office.
Why would I do that for a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, gun-banning socialist?
I don't know about that. As long as arrogant, abusive, unprincipled hacks like yourself keep up your attitude, I'd say there's a real good chance that conservatives are going to be heading our way in droves.
Didn't you just think people would head your way in droves during the 2012 campaign? Yet instead you managed to finsih behind even Rocky Anderson's Justice Party. Isn't your political party only in existence because Alan Keyes, one of the greatest political losers in all of American history, needed a home after he failed to get the Constitution party nomination? And yet so few people headed your way that you got even less votes than he did in 08'.
You really aren't fooling anyone. It is completely obvious that you were running for President long before the GOP nomination battle was settled (a quick look at the America's Party wiki says you were made the nominee on Feb 18th). Whether Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney were nominated, you were running for President. And you have a clear history of 3rd party activity just going back to 08' when you worked for Alan Keyes of all people - someone any American with a lick of political sense knows is a political joke who couldn't get elected dog catcher.
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