Posted on 02/24/2014 5:30:12 AM PST by xzins
The leaders of the Big Government Republican establishment are beginning to get desperate. They are finally starting to grasp that the limited government constitutional conservatives of the Tea Party movement and other liberty-minded voters now understand that the first, and most important, fights in the battle to restore America are the Republican primary elections.
In a desperate effort to hold on to power they have begun to deploy one of their oldest tactics in the 100-year civil war in the Republican Party – calls for Party unity to back Big Government Republican incumbents who have betrayed conservative principles and are rightly facing primary challenges.
Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter whose incisive critiques of liberal policy follies and witty jibes at liberals and Democrats in general, make conservatism interesting and entertaining is only the latest in a long line of “conservatives” to get suckered into the idea that keeping establishment Republicans in power somehow advances the goal of governing America according to conservative principles.
It doesn’t and it never has.
"Of course, I love the Tea Party," Coulter said to Sean Hannity, but she limited the Tea Party movement to people in the "heart of America" who want to see change. She said Tea Party groups such as the Senate Conservatives Fund are just trying to bilk donors.
In other words, now that the Tea Party movement has grown politically sophisticated enough to adopt the tools that the establishment uses to stay in power, such as PACs, and the Senate Conservatives Fund PAC is being effective against incumbent Big Government establishment Republicans, Coulter wants to disarm the opposition.
But here’s where Ann Coulter is really full of it.
“If it weren’t for shysters running against establishment Republicans we would have 51 Republicans senators right now,” Coulter told Sean Hannity referring to the 2012 blow-ups of the Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock Senate campaigns.
Coulter’s comment shows just what a deep draught of the establishment Kool-Aid she has taken and is indicative of how the Big Government Republican establishment is desperately trying to rewrite history to advance the idea that only establishment candidates can win and that conservatives should “unite” behind Republican candidates who have records of betraying conservative principles.
Akin and Mourdock weren’t first time rookie candidates; they were experienced Republican politicians with many campaigns under their belts.
What’s more the comments that blew up their campaigns had nothing to do with the Tea Party’s limited government constitutional conservative agenda. They got suckered by the Democrats’ “war on women” strategy, put their foot in their mouth, were quickly abandoned by the GOP establishment despite conservative calls for Party unity, and consequently got beat.
As our friend Chris Chocola of the Club for Growth put it so well, “the question isn’t why Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock lost — we know why they lost,” said Chocola. “The question is really why did Heather Wilson in New Mexico, Rick Berg in North Dakota, Denny Rehberg in Montana, Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, George Allen in Virginia and Linda Lingle in Hawaii — why did they lose?”
We could add Mitt Romney nationally and Connie Mack in Florida to Chocola’s list, but you get the point.
The fact of the matter is that of the three Republican Senate victories in 2012; Nebraska’s Deb Fischer, Arizona’s Jeff Flake and Texas’ Ted Cruz all ran as Tea Party-oriented or anti-establishment candidates.
There’s no evidence that running as a principled limited government constitutional conservative automatically made a candidate “unelectable” in 2012 and a whole lot of evidence that running as a Bush-type establishment Republican did make one “unelectable,” because despite the millions Karl Rove and his establishment Republican funders spent on them they all lost.
Tit-for-tat is a poor reason to do anything, so we will forego the opportunity to explore where exactly were the establishment calls for Republican Party unity in campaigns where the conservative won the primary, such as the Goldwater, Reagan and Cuccinelli campaigns, when the Republican establishment did everything they could to undermine the conservative candidate after the primary.
Calls for Republican “unity” and a free pass in the primary for incumbent establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, Pat Roberts and Thad Cochran will only accomplish one thing; keeping ineffective and unprincipled establishment Republicans in power. And anyone, including our friend Ann Coulter, who thinks that advances the cause of conservative governance is full of it.
I like that idea, we teaparty R's need to stay registered R, if you get pissed and denounce the party and change your registration to I or C then you will not have a chance to vote the GOP-e's out in the primary's! Stayed registered R, that is our power.
Is Thomas Sowell Right About Ted Cruz?
Posted 2 hours ago by Common Constitutionalist Filed under 2014 Election, 2016 Election, Congress, Constitution, Debt, Government Spending, Low Information Voters, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Tea Party
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Lately I’ve penned a few rather depressing articles. I’ve even had someone tell me that I’ve written of America’s demise because I want it to occur.
That couldn’t be further from the truth.
I told him, “Do you think I want to write or even think of this stuff? People must know what is happening to our country.”
Just think of where we would be without talk radio and the Internet. We would be virtually blind, metaphorically.
It gives me no pleasure to report on the destruction of our country and the people who are causing it.
But as Glenn Beck says, “The truth lives here,” so no matter how painful, we must dispense the truth, or at least as we perceive it.
So it pains me to disagree with one of the greatest minds of our time.
But even Dr. Thomas Sowell is not above criticism, albeit, this is a first for me. I’m hoping it will be the last.
I hate this, but right is right, and I think Dr. Sowell is wrong. Boy, that hurt! I’m glad this isn’t paper for it would be wet from my tears.
Recently Dr. Sowell wrote a couple of articles singling out Ted Cruz for not attempting to “unify” the Republican Party before the 2014 elections.
He says that “internal battles” within the Republican Party are the last thing we need. He claims that Ted Cruz is just being a “self-serving grandstander” by opposing his fellow Republicans in the Senate – such as forcing last year’s government shut down of which Dr. Sowell claims Republicans took a real hit.
Well, I disagree. The “hit” they took, if there was one, was not to rally around Ted Cruz and defend the purpose of the shut down. Maybe the Republicans could have unified around the fact that 85% of the government during the shutdown was fully functioning and hardly anyone noticed.
In my opinion, Dr. Sowell is missing the point of the whole lack of unity thing. What he is neglecting to see is that before we can beat the Democrats, we must first defeat the establishment in our own party. Freedom and liberty will no more thrive under the establishment Republicans than it will under the Democrats.
Read at:
http://godfatherpolitics.com/14487/thomas-sowell-right-ted-cruz/
Agreed. Besides, turning inward is probably the only course left at this point.
It doesn’t work that way in Ohio. The party’s ballot you ask for at the voting precinct is the party to which you are assigned.
> “McConnell’s voting record isn’t nearly as bad as ANY Democrat. Pick any. None of them come remotely close to voting as conservative as Mitch.”
Well you had a little point until you got here and showed your inexperience.
McConnell and his voting record are fraudulent.
In case you haven’t been watching, Ted Cruz just exposed him for all to see. Freepers including this one have known of McConnell’s fraud for years but there is no excuse now for anyone to not know of it now.
McConnell was a pork king under GW Bush and he’s a covert pork king under Obama. He works by advancing legislation for the democrats and then when the actual prepackaged vote comes, he votes conservative to bolster his conservative ratings. But all the while he is working to grow government and increase spending to keep pork under his control.
Democrats know they own McConnell.
fair enough
“...Veterans have known for decades that Democrats in Congress didn’t represent us, but when Republicans passed Paul Ryan’s Budget cutting military retirement benefits, we learned that veterans now aren’t represented by either political party.
...At present, our country’s twenty million veterans have no representation in Congress and it makes us wonder how this came about....
...Veterans are now aligned with the Tea Party and organizing throughout this country to make our presence known in the coming Republican Primaries and in November when we will do all we can to defeat every incumbent Republican Congressman.
Paul Ryan, John Boehner and the Republican Party attacked the Veteran community and we intend to respond accordingly.
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“..defeat every incumbent Republican Congressman....?
Holy cow, you do realize that Paul Ryan’s budget was voted for only a MINORITY of Republicans in the House? The “bipartisan” Ryan budget was passed by the RINO leadership only by using Democrat votes and a relatively small minority of the Republicans in Congress.
Folks, please remember we have many Tea Party Republicans in Congress. We need to focus on increasing their numbers. And, wherever possible, increase their numbers by replacing RINOs with Tea Party conservatives via primary challengers. Let’s be cautious and not end up shooting our friends with poorly thought out actions.
I’m watching Senator McConnell, but I don’t really want to defend his voting record at this point. Why? Because I hope we have a staunch conservative running in Mitch’s place come November. I will state his voting record, fraudulent though you claim it may be, is still better than a Democrat.
I’m amazed at how we demonize anyone who not only doesn’t vote with us 100% of the time but those who merely don’t agree on tactics. For example, some Republicans apparently believed the debt battle couldn’t be won at this time and thought it was going to harm our chances in November. They may have shared Cruz’s ideology. They didn’t agree with his approach.
Keep in mind I ALWAYS want more conservatives in DC, and I absolutely do not suggest we should surrender control of the GOP to the RINOs. They certainly don’t intend to surrender to us. No matter who wins, we better learn how to cooperate against Democrats. We can’t afford to have any of our guys sitting at home or registering protest votes in November. That’s a sure way to defeat.
Again, I’ll take a 50% RINO any day over a 100% Democrat if that’s the best I can get. This all or nothing political warfare is going to get us slaughtered.
Internet yes, talk radio no.
There is a vast difference between the quality and diversity of information that we have access to here on FR, and talk radio. Here most of the relevant info for each situation is available, not talk radio.
Talk radio sets up simple themes and presents only information surgically selected to support those themes to motivate listeners to do what they want.
Here on FR is where I first learned that a shutdown would not defund Obamacare, and that was before the shutdown.
You never heard that on ‘talk radio’ because it wasn't useful for what they were trying to motivate.
The motivating claims was that Clinton caved to Newt and Dole in early 1996, which was not true. Newt and Dole sent Clinton the CR he demanded, just like what played out here.
I take issue by issue and not interested in being blindly led off a cliff. The shutdown was designed to lose to Dems. Obamacare was never defunded for even a day.
How do you explain the fact that the GOP Senate and House under GW Bush spent like drunken sailors and failed to hold hearings on clear abuses of the banking sector?
A GOP RINO Senate will get you all of what Obama has advanced:
* Trillions of dollars of increased spending.
* Homosexual everything everywhere.
* Government run healthcare.
* Government snooping into every facet of the lives of Americans, i.e. the mocking of the 4th Amendment.
* Mischief making using the American armed forces as mercenaries.
* Liberal leaning justice appointments.
* Immigration insanity and lack of border enforcement.
and on and on and on.
I see what you are when you advance the list above by victimizing yourself as someone that holds a different opinion but is conservative nonetheless. That song and dance is old now.
Somethings are not negotiable.
Rules.
Nailed it.
“A GOP RINO Senate will get you all of what Obama has advanced...”
True, but hopefully it won’t be a RINO senate. You do that by winning primaries. My point isn’t that we should surrender to the GOPe. My point is only that we need to cooperate to beat Democrats. Let’s not forget the enemy in front of us for the enemy that occasionally stabs us in the back. Both enemies need to be resisted at the appropriate times: primaries for RINOs and general elections for Democrats.
You’re absolutely right about staying registered Republican. Some states have closed primaries, so a conservative independent would have no power to help a conservative Republican win the Republican primary. We should not leave the party out of frustration or anger. That only gives it over to the GOPe. The Republican Party is OUR party, because we outnumber them. They are the ones who should be coming to us hat in hand for our votes.
“The fact of the matter is that of the three Republican Senate victories in 2012; Nebraska’s Deb Fischer, Arizona’s Jeff Flake and Texas’ Ted Cruz all ran as Tea Party-oriented or anti-establishment candidates. “
Hmmm...Jeff McFlake sure switched to the Dark Side fast! Now he is just another McCain, and PURE Establishment!
Utterly ridiculous. Is that you, Karl Rove?
The damage done by the RINOs IS getting us slaughtered.
The RINOs must go -- hopefully in the primaries, otherwise withholding votes in the general. (with one exception vote for a RAT over Boehner)
Boehner is an extremely evil human -- he lives to destroy the Tea Party. In a general election, I would advocate voting for a RAT over this POS. He is only 1 in 435. We can lose that seat and will mostly likely keep the House.
By all political means possible Boehner must be flushed.
You GOPe apologists make me puke. We are truly at the threshold of losing our Republic and you think the likes of Boehner will "help save us?" Get real.
An enemy inside your camp is much worse than an enemy on the outside.
P.S. Note this post, sometime after the primaries Boehner will try to shove full Amnesty down our throats!
If the GOP-E followed this rule, I'd cut them some slack. But if a conservative wins a primary, they have repeatedly made it clear they prefer Democrats. I fail to see why I should make peace with someone who considers themselves to be at war with me!
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