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Posted on 10/18/2013 11:30:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
To fully understand the state of play in the Republican party, look no further than Sens. Mike Enzi (WY) and Pat Roberts (KS). Both are reliable, mainstream conservatives, yet neither have a record of seeking a fight or standing on principle. Think Orrin Hatch, without the tab-collars. Both, however, stood with Ted Cruz in the fight over ObamaCare. Not coincidentally, both face serious primary challengers. Sen. Mike Enzi is being challenged by Liz Cheney, who criticizes his "go-along-to-get-along" approach to government. Sen. Pat Roberts, who helped guide HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius through the nomination process, is being challenged by doctor, and Obama cousin, Milton Wolf. Nothing in their legislative record suggests they would have sided with Sens. Cruz and Mike Lee but for these primary challenges.
While most of the media and the GOP establishment try to pin blame for the recent fiscal stand-off on conservatives and the Tea Party, in reality the debate shows how bankrupt the GOP establishment has become. Senators, who serve six-year terms, spend most of their time in office immune from voters. They often get caught up in the world of DC salons. As the ballot box approaches, however, they affect a more conservative posture.
We all remember how Sen. John McCain, a vocal advocate now for amnesty, took a decidedly different tact when running for reelection.
Safely reelected, McCain led the establishment Republican charge against Sen. Ted Cruz. Just moments after Cruz ended his epic 21-hour speech against ObamaCare, McCain took to the Senate floor to trash the freshman Senator. This came just months after McCain and his doppelganger Sen. Lindsey Graham attacked Sen. Rand Paul for raising legitimate concerns about the Obama Administration's use of drones.
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They had credibility still? Thought that the 2012 election wiped that out. (Thought that the 2008 election did, too.)
If it takes a primary to remind you who you work for then its time to go.
A lot of these Senators just vote conservative on everything that won’t pass or would’ve passed anyways, and vote liberal on cloture when it comes to critical votes for Obama’s agenda.
Then they vote against final passage, so they can say they voted against it.
We need to get rid of these people.
It's time for the GOP to go back to being a conservative party. We need new GOP leadership.
Turning their backs on campaign issue is one level of sleaze. But picking and choosing which conservative issues they'll support is another. Add treachery to traitor and saboteur to their list of "attributes".I see no point in having them in office instead of dems. At least with crazy out-of-control dems, there's no ambiguity about where they're at. We'd be better off as a smaller and more unified contingent of constitutional conservatives, so the people will have somewhere to turn when the US economy, democracy, and rule of law implodes.
JMHO
Let’s get rid of the RINOs but be careful not to replace them with “moderate” Republicans. We need conservatives who will stand on principle as reflected by their ACTIONS. We need more Cruzes and Lees.
Contact your local county GOP boards.
Across this country, local county GOP boards need to issue a “Vote of No Confidence” regarding the leadership of the RNC and the republican leadership in the House and Senate.
The local boards basically are made up by the base. The majority of republicans are conservative. It is the leadership of the RNC and the House / Senate are in the minority.
The RNC lavishly spends money on its establishment candidates while sparsely supporting their conservative counterparts.
If county GOP boards all over the country begin doing this, it will send a clear message that the leadership has to change now. We, the base, greatly outnumber them.
The GOP-e thinks they can play nice in the sandbox with cutthroat murderers and thieves. They have comitted political suicide with their bungling. The democrats are out to exterminate the GOP as a national party, and the GOP-e just doesn’t seem to realize it.
The rinos maybe. Not the ones who stood up. We’ll see who has the last laugh (or cry) when obamacare crashes and burns.
More than that, how many conservative republican like Ted Cruz are in the Senate? And how many in the House? Why not band together like McCain likes to do with RINOs and theaten to change parties (to independent) or even better just change now?
Teach the GOPe a lesson and make it all that much more difficult for them to regain the Senate because of these losses of seats in the Senate.
What's really the difference between Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner? I see none. What's the difference between McConnell and Reid? I see none.
Switching parties, the GOPe has much more to lose than an already elected and popular politician like Ted Cruz.
It worked for Joe Lieberman
The Senate GOP leadership stomped all over us conservatives. This is where true blame lays for the loss of the healthcare/debt battle. FU GOP-e !!!
Liz Cheney already had intentions to run for Senate.
They could not lose what they didn’t have.
It will be interesting to watch the small donors react to this consummate weak kneed sell out of the hinterlanders. I’ll bet the donations dry up so fast it will make the RNC HQ resemble the Sahara desert.
Orrin Hatch, not content to stay quietly in the background, actually fired Miranda for finding the memo in the first place, rather than fight the Democrat duplicity that the memo suggested.
-PJ
Can you believe they started their calling asking for money for the next election? I have had three calls just this morning. Repubs are not getting any money from me. I tell them that John McCain, etc. are millionaires...go ask them for money.
Vote out the RINOs!
“I’ll bet the donations dry up so fast it will make the RNC HQ resemble the Sahara desert.”
Well, the donations will still come in from the rich-upper level supporters, and of course all the moderates. But they’ll definitely hear from the ordinary people that they won’t be giving another dime...ever! I love the surveys they send me, and give them hell. Though I only send them back when it’s postage paid. I don’t get calls anymore since I chewed them out.
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