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The Sabotage Republicans (Another RINO Knife in the Back)
The American Spectator ^ | 11/8/2013 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 11/08/2013 11:43:45 AM PST by mojito

Call them the Sabotage Republicans.

They have been busily at work in Virginia these last few weeks, sabotaging the gubernatorial campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

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Every time some Establishment GOP nominee loses the White House or a hot gubernatorial, Senate or other race — conservatives have been silent about this unending ability of Establishment Republicans to lose either close elections or win them by unnecessarily close margins..

Yet if one conservative — that would be Ken Cuccinelli this week — loses a race, Katie bar the door.

Worse, up until now not much has been made of the long, disgraceful trait of Establishment Republicans to demand party unity — unless they lose a primary or a convention. In which case they simply refuse to unite behind the winning conservative. And deliberately, with malice aforethought — actively seek to sabotage that conservative.

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In fact, one of the real problems here — as exemplified by the Cuccinelli defeat — is that moderate Republicans not only refuse to pull together. They go out of their way to sabotage the conservative.

Say it again? That word is sabotage. Betrayal. The Establishment GOP goes out…of…its…way to sabotage. Spelled s-a-b-o-t-a-g-e.

Let’s name some names here, shall we?

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cuccinelli; kencuccinelli; robertsarvis; sabotagerepublicans; terrymcauliffe; virginia
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Let the facts speak for themselves.

h/t Vanderleun.

1 posted on 11/08/2013 11:43:45 AM PST by mojito
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2 posted on 11/08/2013 11:46:15 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: mojito

The GOP at its heart is collectivist just like the Dems. See my tag line.


3 posted on 11/08/2013 11:50:15 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: mojito
Thanks, great post.

Great history lesson, too.

I actively worked in the 1964 Goldwater campaign, but I had completely forgotten about Rockefeller's Convention speech.

One more comment on Conservative betrayal by a chief of staff.....

Marco Rubio called for vigorous enforcement of current immigration laws when he ran for the Senate in 2010.

Then, just weeks after Rubio was elected, he hired a former immigration lawyer and Amnesty advocate to be his own chief of staff!

4 posted on 11/08/2013 12:07:32 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: mojito
There's a long history.

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5 posted on 11/08/2013 12:08:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: mojito
My feeling is the Republican establishment wanted to teach conservatives a lesson in Virginia. They have been attacking Senator Cruz and others as extremists. They wanted to show conservatives that they have no role in the Republican Party except to contribute money and shut up. They deliberately sabotaged Cuccinelli’s campaign.
6 posted on 11/08/2013 12:41:14 PM PST by detective
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The GOP at its heart is collectivist just like the Dems.

Yeah, except their idea of a "collective" is Skull and Bones, the Harvard Porcellians, and the New York Athletic Club.

Oh, excuse me -- I misspelled "Hahvuhd", Johnny Hayseed me.

The author needs to go back a lot farther than 1992, though.

In 1968 and 1976, the RiNO's backstabbed Ronnie.

In 1964, they backstabbed Barry.

In 1960, they backstabbed Barry and the Bob Taft Republicans. In 1952, they backstabbed everybody to the right of Owen Lattimore by bringing in Dwight Eisenhower to blindside the conservatives who wanted Bob Taft.

And who the hell knows before that. You could go back to the Mugwumps, I suppose.

7 posted on 11/08/2013 12:51:09 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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We’re just making a list of those to remove. If we don’t get them this time, we’ll get them next time. Especially the senators. The Senate is not the fun place it used to be, where everything was done by unanimous consent and nobody was held accountable. Olympia Snowe is a good example. She liked being in the club but when it turned into (gasp!) a contentious legislative body, she wanted out (and if she didn’t remove herself, she would have been removed).

Senators are becoming more and more frustrated and more and more miserable which will mean more and more will likely retire. Because most of the old-timey guys and gals are gone. As of January 2015, there will have been 63 new senators since January 2007. That’s obviously 63%. And it may be higher if incumbents like Graham, McConnell, Cornyn, Graham, Landrieu, Cochran, etc. are replaced.


8 posted on 11/08/2013 12:52:02 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: detective
Yeah, "us or nobody", "you won't win because we won't let you win, so STFU. And who the hell is Sarah Palin? -- you'd better not know the answer!!"

And so on. And on. And on. And on.

Pigs.

9 posted on 11/08/2013 12:52:52 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: mojito
If you can't take over an existing political party, HOW the HELL are you going to start a NEW one?

I repeat:

Get together, and run for local and county Republican COMMITTEE seats. Many of them go unfilled, they are low level, but they have a LOT of power. County Committee people elect the County Republican Chairmen. County Chairmen control policy and advance candidates for elective office.

Start also with local council seats and mayoral slots. These are brooderies for candidates for higher office.

REFUSE to contribute to the GOP. But DO contribute to INDIVIDUAL conservative Republicans.

10 posted on 11/08/2013 12:55:31 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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Melvin Laird. Priceless.

Proof positive that an eggplant can serve as Secretary of Defense.

11 posted on 11/08/2013 12:57:51 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: ZULU
REFUSE to contribute to the GOP. But DO contribute to INDIVIDUAL conservative Republicans.

Ba-zing. Exactamundo. You just described what the immortal F. Clifton White did in 1964. Too bad he died soon after ..... hmmmm, has anyone ever looked at his passing as possible foul play? Of course, foul play has never happened. Ever.

12 posted on 11/08/2013 1:00:51 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Third Party, anyone?


13 posted on 11/08/2013 1:08:26 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: mojito

As always, excellent post by Jeffery Lord.
This should be required reading for all conservatives.
I hope the fight now will remain out in the open - cockroaches hate the light.


14 posted on 11/08/2013 1:12:47 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: lentulusgracchus

White died in 1993.


15 posted on 11/08/2013 1:15:33 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Yes? I thought he'd died years before. I must have confused someone else's obit with his.
16 posted on 11/08/2013 1:20:09 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: PATRIOT1876
No, going third-party is a quick trip to the sidelines. Even a well-liked, recently-out-of-office Rushmore President couldn't make third-party politics work.
17 posted on 11/08/2013 1:21:41 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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Melvin Laird. Priceless. Proof positive that an eggplant can serve as Secretary of Defense.

Excellent!!!!!! But you have to remember Les Aspin, a narcissistic commie eggplant.

18 posted on 11/08/2013 1:42:38 PM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
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To: cripplecreek

You’re too extreme with that newspaper posting. LOL!


19 posted on 11/08/2013 2:20:45 PM PST by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: ZULU

BTTT!


20 posted on 11/08/2013 6:38:01 PM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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