Posted on 06/02/2013 8:26:04 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
MARK LEVIN: Is Obama destroying the Republican Party? No, the Republican establishment is destroying the Republican Party. The only reason they’re in the majority in the House is because of conservatives — conservatives across the country, the grassroots. They lost the Senate. They like to point to two races, one in Missouri and one in Indiana. I can point to ten races where there were liberal-to-moderate Republicans who lost, and of course they never mention that.
The fact of the matter is, from my opinion, I’m not trying to project it on to you. Until the Republican leadership that has brought us McCain and Romney, that has a feckless RNC, a preposterously incompetent get-out-the-vote operation, is removed and replaced, with fresh, smart, confident, knowledgeable people, until some of our backbenchers move to the front, some of the young Tea Party conservative candidates who can articulate our vision and our principles, this is going to continue.
Obama may want to destroy the Republican Party, but the Republican Party is imploding. And, you know what, it needs to be cleansed. It needs to be cleaned out. Not for purity reasons, not for absolutism, but because it needs to be a party that stands for something. Can you tell me what the Republican Party stands for today?
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BRAVO!
I’m sure this article warrants an appearance from Captain Obvious.
The Great One is right. Zero is God’s gift to conservatives and to the GOP. The party hacks cannot get out of their own way and make a meaningful case to the politically literate half of our country to get our country back to Reagan values. The hacks are as self-interested as Zero is in maintaining their posh positions of power.
The former McCotter seat in Michigan went full tea party with Kerry Bentivolio.
McCotter was a likable enough guy but actually very moderate
All of the exhortations, even those made by Mark Levine my favorite radio personality, to the effect that we must move to the right are based on ideology and not data. There is, however, one remark that Mark Levin made with which there can be absolutely no dispute:
"a feckless RNC, a preposterously incompetent get-out-the-vote operation,"
We need no more data to know that that get out the vote election night fiasco compels heads to roll.
I’m calling shenanigans on Levin. He argues that this isn’t a purity test but the party needs to be cleaned out ....purged? This is what the hard left does. His reasoning is that by purging the party we will bring in a new breed that ...knows what it stands for. Levin’s stupid here. This is politics much of it’s local. What works on Texas not in Connecticut. I’m with William Buckley.Run the most conservative candidate that can win.
The answer is simple - cigarettes and wine.
Seriously, I think, at least in the presidential election, we need a better candidate who stands for something.
But I want to win and I want to be able to convince the fatcat Republican contributors and the Rino establishment that we need to be conservative to win. Otherwise we are just exchanging dueling opinions with the left wing Republican establishment and they have won that game cycle after cycle.
We need hard data. Where is Michael Barone when you need him? Gingrich promised a complete study but I have not seen or heard of it yet.
The problem with Buckley's advocacy in that manner, is that ultimately it results in an atmosphere where nobody is educated with regard to what is truly sound policy.
Lose me four elections in a row fighting for truly sound policy. By the fifth or sixth election, the Democrats will have helped you prove your point. Then the public will choose your team and policy in your local, state, and federal government will move back to the right.
We can't win electing Democrats from the Republican party.
What Buckley advocates for, results in our side not being able to pass anything, because our own party members vote against sound policy.
Led by people like Tokyo Rove and RINO McCain.
At least three things happened:
1. Massive, massive voter fraud, the smallest 1% of the iceberg has been exposed. Let's hope for more, much more.
2. Many grass roots Conservatives saw no reason to vote for Mitt Romney.
3. How do you compete with Santa Claus*? To my knowledge, there's been no response to this by any Conservative.
*Raging, over the top numbers of Americans on Medicaid and food stamps are two examples.
Warning that on posts here during 2012 election .And been writing why since about as long as Levin has.
Here are the reasons
http://www.theusmat.com
Add to that the black vote. Romney’s heavy handed blasts and smears against opponents did not only include Bachmann it also included Cain aided by the RINOS and the GOPES (government of the people elite snobs) on Romney’s one man band wagon.
The republican party in my view is going through a shakeout.
Over the years, the republicans inside the beltway (the establishment) have drifted off of center and they are now being trued back to basic principles.
Huh? He is arguing that that national party has failed and will continue to fail without new leadership. He’s 100% accurate. I think you are confusing candidate selection in different states with party organization. The party organization is a failure and is losing.
Obama never had any power to diminish or destroy the Republican party in the least. Sure, he can call names, and run blitzes at them through the arm of the Democrat Liberal party known as the press, but that does not excuse foot-dragging by supposed elites among the Republicans in the least.
Only the Republicans could choose to be defeated by this barrage, or strive for victory. 2010 was highly instructive, that by tapping into a grass roots that had been largely ignored (the T.E.A. people), the Republicans could undertake a much-needed renaissance.
But for 2012, the Republicans, instead of nurturing this important resource, have allowed them to either die on the vine, or have actively tried to shut them out. Ad hominem attacks against the T.E.A. activists were either ignored by the Republican establishment, or they seemed to join in them.
What was allowed to happen to Herman Cain was shameful in the extreme. Nobody in the establishment came forward with the counter arguments to the charges launched against Cain by the Chicago machine, when it was obvious to just about anybody that David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel were part of that manufactured crisis. It was too important to protect Mitt Romney from other Republicans
Could Herman Cain have won? The proposition was left untried because it was found to have been “too difficult”.
The “safe” candidate was not so much elected, as simply anointed. This “my turn” frame of thinking has to be phased out, else we have perennial candidates in every election cycle, with varying degrees of seniority, and a sense of entitlement not supported by actual accomplishments.
In it to win it, or go home. Sometimes “winning” is not the goal that is actually being sought.
“Social acceptance” is a very poor second.
It’s not that they can’t get out of their own way. It’s that they like big government as long as they are in charge.. That is why they are always in search of a new “message”. The GOP establishment types don’t want a message of limited government.
This is where our anger an outrage should be directed, at the R esablishment. We already know that the communist Democratic Party is not going to change.
Both parties are destroying the GOP.
What we need is to look out for America.
America.
That is not what we are doing. What is happening now, is we are selling out America so that we can make stuff cheaper, than the guy down the street.
The problem is, we are making stuff cheaper than the guy down the street, by buying the stuff from communist China.
China is now the largest exporter in the world.
We need to realize we have a serious competition on our hand, and it is here, right now.
But American.
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