Posted on 06/27/2014 9:00:24 AM PDT by bigbob
After the skin-crawling exploitation of black voters in Mississippi, the GOP’s current leadership wing gives a second demonstration, this time in Virginia, of just how committed they are to “a big tent,” or to the GOP’s vitality in general. The Senate majority matters, the House majority matters. But this party’s leadership is infested with the same disregard for Washington’s intended purpose as any Clintonian.
Third parties fail. But what cost does remaining aligned with this generation of GOP leadership take from the cause of liberty and transparency?
Recall, last week Eric Cantor said: “Of course I’ll vote for David Brat … I want a Republican to hold this seat.”
This week? He sends Ray Allen — read anything I’ve published at PJM the last few months for background on this Tammany Hall-style thug — to proxy a budget vote for the seat Cantor really really earnestly hopes the GOP holds.
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It’s worth the money to be rid of the PR!CK
He wasn't a loony toon. He had a visceral hatred for Bush. He had no desire to be president. He just didn't want Bush to be president either. Seemed to have had his way too.
We must accept that we are facing a somewhat familiar but actually unprecedented level of unacceptable actions and attitudes by the elitist scum that control the GOP.
This behavior of Cantor's power-hungry corrupt love slaves is just the latest misbehavior. We also have REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI. Previously in Virginia, the commonwealth-wide scum sold Ken Cuccinelli out because Cuccinelli and not their preferred brain-dead elitist Lt. Governor Bolling was nominated for Governor. Bolling had also been Romney's campaign chair in Virginia (naturally!). Meanwhile the Republican National Committee is busily changing the party rules to guarantee another elitist chosen scum candidate for POTUS to throw the next election to Hillary Clinton lest the GOP base (the normal American people) might, Dewey forbid, have a candidate worth voting for.
Retired scum like former Senator John (Liz Taylor's 8th or 10th "husband" and Oliver North's enemy) Warner and defeated scum like Richard Lugar are going around endorsing the likes of Sam Nunn's Demonrat daughter against the winner of the GOP's Georgia runoff.
So, the conclusion we must accept based on that evidence and more is that what has been the Republican Party has now attained the status of an internal civil war. This is not good-natured rivalry but a fight to the political death between opposites and enemies.
If we are serious, we must either drive the money obsessive elitists and their unprincipled minions from the GOP OR leave the GOP and form a new party. I find the latter a more attractive alternative but understand that it is not more attractive to many here who have spent their lives as I have in the GOP. I refused to vote for Romney and I'm not going back. To get my vote, they will have to earn it by nominating candidates worth voting for.
What adjective??? Let’s try delusional or hallucinatory or downright imaginary! Are you Thad Cockroach or Haley Boss Hogg Barbour?
1912, democrats won 290 House seats (2/3s exactly) with 43% of the total votes because of the split between the GOP and TR’s progressives, Woodrow Wilson won the White House with a huge EC majority despite just 42% of the popular vote. We could not survive a democrat supermajority Congress today.
As for Brat, that seat is safe, I am not worried about the rat candidate’s chances, so the allegations made in this blog don’t trouble me. I’m sure Brat will get many donations from across the country to fund his campaign.
I would MUCH MUCH prefer that conservatives reclaim the Republican party. I have been a Republican since I first registered to vote back in 1976! But here's the thing -- not I nor anyone else gets to choose which is the better path. We only get to figure out how to adapt to survive. It is looking very much like the ONLY way to survive will be to opt for a new party.
I, too, rejected Romney and voted third party, and am prepared to do so again in 2016.
It all hinges on who the GOP nominates for the 2016 presidential candidate. Even if we vote in the primary, I and millions of American conservatives will have zero voice in that decision. A huge percentage of conservative voices will be silenced because the field will have been narrowed down to perhaps two options by the time it gets to our states, and if it's like last time -- Romney or Ron Paul were my only two "choices" in the GOP presidential primary -- the "choice" will so futile as to be a bad joke.
Sure it's far-fetched to think a new party can win, that conservatives and Americans sick of tyrannical government will overcome liberalism via a new third party. But it is even MORE far-fetched to think the leftist-saturated and controlled GOP will come around in two short years.
I don't like it -- I'd rather vote Republican -- but "it" doesn't care what I like.
It can ONLY be the former if a miracle happens.
Otherwise, get ready for a bumpy night. That is, be prepared to take bigger risks (for bigger opportunities) and remember that adapting to survive forces "solutions" that one doesn't see until one has to see them.
More attractive because it admits a fresh start. I agree, and I'm starting to think that the smart thing is to face the fact that so many Republicans in office have betrayed our trust that it would be lunacy to trust the party any more. It is Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football, but it isn't funny. It's sick and dangerous.
Dreamers think the party will turn around fast enough that regular-Joe Americans will all the sudden, by 2016, believe the Republican party is "trustworthy." Anybody paying even the slightest attention knows that the Republican party stands for "screw you." Democrats and Republicans and Independents and Conservatives ALL know this.
That is going to be the same attitude they will have in two years -- unless there's a miracle, they will be so skeptical of any Republican that the party identity alone will be a huge liability. The party stands for nothing, it ignores its platform, and that's the image Americans have of it.
Limited government Americans need to unite under a new party. A SECOND party, the opposition to the pro-government party that goes by the names "Republican" and "Democrat."
We might as well face it now, instead of waiting another 18 months.
Do you think I'm crazy, BlackElk? Is it going to come down to waiting until AFTER the primaries, then standing there with our pants down, again?
“They’re giving the money to the RNC and NRCC instead.”
Who is the “they” who alleged are giving VA organizational funds to the RNC/NRCC? Is it the Republican Party of Virginia?
I really don't understand how the RATs accomplished that on the congressional level since we are not a parliamentary system and the vote for Congress wasn't tied to the vote for President.
In order to similarly split the vote at the congressional level, the "Progressive Party" (a new third party created solely for Teddy Roosevelt's egotistical Presidential run, it wasn't related to previous "Progressive Party" campaigns in the U.S.) would have to slate candidates aligned to Teddy's ideals in each of the 435 congressional districts. Furthermore, the quality of the candidates themselves would ALSO have to mirror the presidential choices... if you had an extremely popular incumbent Republican congressman up for re-election against a weak Dem and a no-name, underfunded "Progressive" candidate, its unlikely the Progressive candidate would get the same % of people who pulled the lever for Teddy to do the same for him, and its very likely the Republican candidate for Congress would outperform Taft at the top of the ticket. Also, in 1912, there were numerous areas of the country that were 1 party Republican and simply never had any RATs on ballot (ironically, most of those places, like Vermont, are now safe Dem)
If anything, I would have assumed the Republicans did well in Congressional races in 1912 because they're usually straight Republican vs. Democrat races, and most Wilson voters would vote RAT, while most Taft voters and a plurality of Teddy voters would pick the "R" over the "D" in a two way race.
In short, I'm shocked the RATS did so well on the congressional level.
Cantor lost because his constituents got tired of being ignored and treated to snotty responses when they tried to contact him with their concerns. Cantor was too busy being important to listen to the people who put him in office. Now they put him out.
I don’t know many total candidates they ran but the Progs got 13% of the total vote according to Wikipedia, (winning just 10 seats), GOP 35% , rats 43% (several points less than they got in 1910 when they just edged the GOP in popular vote yet won a good majority of seats), and the Socialists over 6% (slightly outpolling the Debs Presidential Ticket).
The Progressive vote was almost entirely out of the GOP hide, and it was more than enough to screw us, it doesn’t take a lot.
This was long before ticket splitting became in vogue, incumbents personal popularity was not a major factor back then, people voted party. We’re lucky the majority of TR votes stuck with the GOP on the Congressional level, if the split in Congressional vote was the same as in the POTUS race 27% prog, 23% GOP, the rats would have won an even huger majority, maybe around 80%, like Wilson got in the electoral college.
The UK may see Labour win a decent majority with well under 40% of the vote thanks to the Tory/UKIP split.
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