Kerry was in Vietnam and we're endorsing Romney.
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.
/johnny
Kerry was in Vietnam and we're endorsing Romney.
Meh, for every person who thinks they are accomplishing something by not voting for a candidate that can win, another usually realizes the folly of having done that in the past and goes back to casting a ballot that counts.
When you drop out of the system, no one cares. You impress no one, you prove nothing, you achieve zilch. The 2 major party's pursue, first and foremost, actual likely voters. The more conservatives that sit out, the less the GOP will care about their voice and the faster they will move to the new center (meaning further left). We've seen this play out elsewhere and it just allows the socialists to accelerate their ability to change the culture and the politics of this land.
You are exactly correct. This is where we are now. Western civilization is selfish and dying. It's all about security from things instead of freedom to take chances and achieve. Our recent immigrants don't much care about this land (they aren't even told they should), they are simply here to pick the carcass clean and take whatever possible back home with them. The left took over our schools and taught a few generations now that we should feel guilty and ashamed of what we accomplished. The spirit that once fill this nation is flickering out. We are going the way of Europe.
Still, not voting, sitting out, wasting ballots on 3rd party's, etc, none of that does any good. We just have to fight the good fight, even if it means we go down with the ship. At least we stood up and made every logical, reasonable effort to save this country for future generations.
As do those, voting Republican.
To Democrats, their drive for dominance and total control of the populace and the wealth it generates is a religious calling and they pursue it with brutal force if necessary.
To Republicans, the quest is not so much for power as it is for riches which can buy the power and they have no core conviction. Try an experiment and ask any given number of Republicans what they stand for and you'll get equal number of different answers and then people wonder why the 'Pubs don't connect. Those political mobsters have no soul, they have no core and believe that election to a political office is a green light to loot the public coffers.
The GOP can't win unless it moves right. Move right, you might get some support. Until then, you can forget about it.
Fear doesn't sell. If I voted GOP, I would be enabling those liberals and accelerating the move left.
No thanks.
The GOP keeps losing, don't they?
/johnny
Don't be afraid.
But be ready.
Um, I don't care what you do. You're a big talker but if you don't participate in one of the two party's that can win elections, then politically you are simply irrelevant. No matter how much you scream and yell, when you don't cast a ballot that counts for something then your voice is not heard anyway. You're just hollering on message boards, but making no actual difference one way or the other.
No matter how much you scream and yell, and try to sell your fear mongering, the GOP loses. Voters and elections. That's the reality on the ground.
/johnny
Sure it does. The Democrats use fear to great success every election cycle with their various minority and victim groups. The Democrats do an amazing job convincing blacks, Hispanics, single women, etc, that the Republican party hates them and wants to ruin their lives.
If I voted GOP, I would be enabling those liberals and accelerating the move left.
When you don't participate in a party, it ignores you. It will move left faster without conservative voices to push for a different direction.
Refusing to vote for a Republican primary winner because they aren't conservative enough is generally just as bad as mushy moderates who refuse to vote for legitimate movement conservative primary victors because they are supposedly too conservative. Both are instances of people throwing temper tantrums because they didn't get their way.
The GOP has certainly convinced me that they have no use for conservatives, so I'll just let them sleep in the bed they made for themselves.
You aren't making the sale. The GOP remains irrelevant since they can't put up conservative candidates and actively supress conservatives.
/johnny
These establishment types intentionally left Sarah Palin and Ron Paul out of the mix and paid the price big time. There is nothing they can do to ‘fix’ the problem because they are the problem. I have had it with the GOP. Until they get a firebreathing conservative at the helm, they can kiss the party good-bye forever.
I'm a professional and make a good living..and actually pay lot's in income taxes.
I've given money to past GOP candidates, ( Although never Dole, McCain or Romney..)...and will continue to do that when they meet my Conservative standards.
But the GOP-e can pound sand!
And go to hell!!
“the more conservatives give up on the GOP”
It’s crazy.
We’re a few members away from controlling the House and everyone wants to give up!
Example: most of this session Boehner went around pressuring members to support Reid’s bills.
But on the ‘fiscal cliff’ deal he’ll be pressuring members NOT to support Reid’s bill.
Conservatives are taking the Party over. The RINOs are losing.
There is one other thing they can do, go after and guard against voter fraud. Romney lost because of massive voter fraud and his subsequent ignorance afterwards to challenge it.
Tell me Ross Perot was irrelevant.
U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, R-Peterborough, took a symbolic step this week by being the first Republican member of Congress from New England to sign on to an effort that would allow the federal government to recognize same-sex marriage.
Bass was defeated by democrat Ann Kuster in November; who also supports sodomite marriage...and they wonder why conservatives stayed home.
Your post make’s little sense.
Ross Perot accomplished pretty much nothing politically - other than to help Clinton get elected in 92'. So sure, 3rd party dunderheads can occasionally play spoiler.
The 17th Amendment is going to make it difficult to take control of the Senate...best done in an ‘off year’ when people aren’t being driven to the polls by a presidential race.
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