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.
You’ve misrepresented the truth in every way that matters.
Out of pure malice.
You’re no different than any Alinsky Democrat.
A perfect Romney Republican.
Congratulations.
You will not say what I have said that is wrong, because you can’t.
Why in the world would I give any consideration to your malicious little fishing expeditions? I’m not stupid.
My family is fine, and they think your attacks are despicable, just as they always have.
I see you fail to refute one thing I’ve said. You are willing to put your country in jeopardy if you can get your 15 minutes of fame.
It’s you, and your support for those who have no principles, who are imperiling the country, ma’am, not me.
Compromise will eventually bear its destructive fruit, and the crop that the Republican Party has sown is starting to come in.
Wake up.
You still have not been able to provide one shred of evidence that what I have said is untrue or misleading about you in any way.
You, Tom Hoefling, are a kook who will take advantage of anyone stupid enough to stroke your goofy ego. You'll go so far as to even help reelect Obama.
I have a question for you: What is better about you than Virgil Goode? Why wasn’t he good enough?
That’s funny. When I was making personal sacrifices to fight Barack Obama in Illinois the biggest impediment of all was constant attacks by Republicans against his conservative opponent just like those on this thread.
You’re hypocrites, ma’am.
I’ve been consistent in fighting for conservatism and against leftists.
You don’t care any more about principle, as you continue to demonstrate, and you support leftists.
That’s the bottom line.
Goode is still too much the compromised Republican congressman on the defense of innocent human life, the Ron Paul isolationist on foreign policy, and he also retains many of his New Deal Democrat views when it comes to federal programs and entitlements.
I debated him at great length and these things became quite clear.
And toss the NRA on its ass, too! They’ve done nothing but give us the 1934 NFA and the 1968 GCA and other anti-gun bills all the while using scare tactics to get more money from us.
Suppose all this is true, what does it have to do with what you did? You didn’t really think you have the power to do anything about it, did you? The only think you had the power to do is to help Obama and that is unthinkable.
No, you have the power, I don't. And you were expending it on the most liberal governor in the history of the republic.
The only think you had the power to do is to help Obama and that is unthinkable.
I didn't help Obama. Unlike yourself, I don't support leftists.
You think you’re the Messiah, and you’re not—you, and those like you are Democrats’ best friends.
What a load of nonsense.
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