The vast majority of Tea Partiers cannot afford exclusive country club memberships. But they can console themselves by recognizing that, even RINO Republican Presidents have a good record of delivering excellent Supreme Court Justices. If the Democrats were to control the Supreme Court from 2016 to 2024, life would be unbearable for patriotic Americans.
“RINO Republican Presidents have a good record of delivering excellent Supreme Court Justices.”
Like the great John Roberts. I don’t think so. RINO republicans
are just lying liberals.
He is a former full-term Governator. Next.
2016 ain’t 1964. The Republican Party of that era had a MUCH larger presence in the northeast , and little in the south. Hey folks, there’s been a realignment.
Also, the fact that Jebbie’s last name is Bush makes all the difference.
Finally, I know of no bloc of Republican Catholics (including those with money) who want an establishment type who happens to be Catholic.
Funding is not everything. Too much history proves that. Jeb will be easy to beat in the primaries by any FIGHTING conservative candidate that will show Jeb for who and what he is. Not a conservative.
The primaries will tell all.
Tea Party & GOP Elite Walk Into A Bar. . .
Posted on | February 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
by Smitty
Tea Party: Worst. President. Ever. [to the Bartender] Sam Adams.
GOP Elite: Concur. Gotta continue the momentum of 2014. Must. Retake. White. House.
For me: a Cosmopolitan, please.
[Bartender shuffles off]
TP: Violent agreement. Which is why we should expand the tent and unite early behind an acceptable candidate. Can’t afford to repeat 2012, much less 2008.
Elite: Concur. Clearly you need someone fundraising ability to overcome the Democratic Party machine.
TP:Somebody whose record in office speaks for itself.
Elite: Somebody from a state that is key to victory.
TP: Somebody that has enough leadership chops to unite every voter with two brain cells and a pulse.
Elite: Somebody with enough name recognition to be an easy sell to the unwashed masses.
TP: I don’t know about that. Scott Walker has work to do getting his name circulated beyond the Midwest and Tea Party circles.
[Bartender returns with a pint and a martini glass. Tea Party starts lifting the beverage unceremoniously to lip.]
Elite: Your health, sir. Now, Scott who? I’m talking about John Ellis Bush.
TP: Wut?
[Spills beer down his chin.]
Elite: The Jebster. The Jebbage. The Jeb-o-rama.
TP: Well, sink my car and call me Ted! I thought you were serious about getting conservatives together next year, not foisting some equestrian squish on the base. Haven’t we had enough abuse?
Elite: Oh, just lay by your dish! You little Tea-Party-come-latelys think you can be all pizza, beer, and guns; jacking about Hazzard County, Georgia your whole lives; then swoop in and call some shots just because the country elected a no-talent rodeo clown in 2008.
Well, get stuffed: half the battle in politics is showing up. The other half is staying engaged. When you have the frogskins and the stamina not to get routed by the IRS like you were in 2010, your little “hostile takeover” attempt won’t look so rank and amateurish.
[Quaffs from his Cosmo.]
TP: Hey, thanks for nothing, big brother. You fat cats only pause from delivering the floggings long enough to throw out some patriotic posturings. Then demand we vote for whatever tool you pull out of the roll-away.
Elite: Seriously. I love your enthusiasm. But this is not 1773, you’re not George Washington, and running around as though Nothing Whatsoever Happened since 1787 is just silly. Stop it. Go to school. Do the homework. The Devil’s in the details and hates us both. We can no more reasonably implement your ‘magic wand’ solutions than Obama could manage rolling out a website.
TP: Well, botox my face and call me Nancy! Your response to Jezebel seems to be “get in bed with the wench”. Every time the base listens to you, we get some bogus farce of a candidate that couldn’t inspire a gambler to roll the dice in Vegas. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, and I might as well swear allegiance to Her Majesty, Hillary.
Elite: This is precisely why we need adults like Jeb in the room. You treat the Constitution as some magical Scroll of Integrity, and think “All we gotta do is just follow it, and all our ouchies go away”. It’s merely the first breadcrumb, as it sat in 1787. And now we’ve got 11 million people illegally present. What the focaccia are you going to do with them? Form them up and force-march them to Mexico? No lousy optics there! And to what effect? People don’t take you seriously because you’re about as grown up as the Wisconsin Teachers Union going after your boy Walker.
[TP puts down his beer with the glass half full.]
TP: Help me out here. The last time we did this drill was. . .the Reagan Administration? Do we, at some point, get to learn from our mistakes?
Elite: “We” have no corporate memory. It’s all in the heads of individuals, and has to be carefully curated and carried forward. Sort of the way the Tea Partiers failed to do these last decades. You lads haven’t got hair #1 where it matters, much less a teenage pizza-face yet. Now, calm down and pay your dues, or daddy spank.
TP: Well, bust my ribs and call me Harry! The Captain of the Titanic wants to give lessons in seamanship! Will that get folded into Common Core, my sweet statist?
Elite: And what are you going to do? Actually take local control of matters, and. . .drumroll. . .raise taxes to pay for education? Here’s the ground truth: you haven’t paid attention to how everything got turned upside down since the Great Society. The Fed prints the money, DC doles it out, and that’s how all of the services that you rely on, but don’t even consider, actually operate. And so now you and Grover Norquist want to cry “foul” and change everything. To what effect? So you can just go back to NASCAR until your inner child gets all pouty again?
TP: So, you’re saying “Trust me,” and then blaming me for trusting you?
[Finishes his drink.]
Elite: Let’s cut to the chase. If we put Walker on as VP, can we expect your support?
TP: If you want a re-run of 1992, I can guarantee the Inaugural’s going to resemble 1993.
[Sets down the empty beer glass, puts a $20 on the bar.]
Elite: Would the other way around look more like 1980, then?
TP: Look, if the John McCains, Mitt Romneys, and Jeb Bushes want to convince people they care for more than their own overstuffed egos, they need to support the Convention of States. This country is screaming for substantial reform and re-commitment to the fundamentals that make her exceptional. Just because despotic rule by an elite few happens to be the human historical norm is no reason for this country to follow down that path.
We’re like the Jews at the end of the Book of Judges, having entered a promised land, goofed up, and hit some tough sledding. The correct answer here is NOT “Hey, let’s elect a king!” And if you want to tell me that the only “conservative” capable of carrying the 2016 election has a name rhyming with “tush”, you can kiss mine. Not playing.
Elite: Speaking of human historical norm and Israel, you negotiate with all of the flexibility of somebody working the Palestinian question. Bravo.
TP: Well, you tell me how to negotiate with cancer, and I’ll give it a whirl.
[exeunt]
http://theothermccain.com/2015/02/17/tea-party-gop-elite-walk-into-a-bar/
Whatever.
I pay little attention to pundits — especially amateur pundits — this far out.
Still a lot of ground to cover between now and primary season.
Money and support helps but it is not unbeatable. I remember 1996 when Phil Gramm raised the most pre-primary money and got nowhere. You still have to be likeable.
I also disagree with your assertions that RINOs have a good record on SCOTUS appointments. Need I remind you of David Souter and Anthony Kennedy? John Paul Stevens, anyone?
I’d say the hit/miss ratio on RINO SCOTUS nominees is around 60%.
you may be right...but there is a pent up anger ou there....normal floks are soooooooooo PO’d.....based upon that factor Bush/RINOs may be on their way out!
The Left will always tell you who they want to run against.
This time, it’s Jeb.
Good luck with that line of BS.
I may move to some South Pacific island and live like one of those WWII Japanese soldiers cut off from the outside world.
Obama's numbers were weak in November (and the resulting change in congress) but more break even now. Things can change in a heartbeat.
Reagan was able to effectively straddle attracting the red meat base and the swing voters. It will be difficult for someone to do that today. Reagan would have difficulty with many on the right side of right in today's world.
Perhaps you didn’t see Scott Walker’s HUGE, HUGE lead over the rest of the field in the latest Drudge poll.
The number of votes was VERY high.
Your posturing is way too premature.
Seriously...Bush 1?
I don’t think so. I see someone like Scott Walker or Ted Cruz more likely to take the nomination.
“RINO Republican Presidents have a good record of delivering excellent Supreme Court Justices”
No, they do not. It is hit and miss with RINOs, which only make sense. For every Justice Thomas a RINO has nominated, there is a Souter type.
Jeb Bush ===> Demonicrat President.
Guarantee it.
TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT!!!
really????!!!!! Why do we decide to just give up and let the news media decide this?
I won't vote for another Bush or Clinton, nor will I vote for anyone who isn't willing to fight for health care (better than what this push down our throats) system is; I won't vote for anyone who doesn't want to block our borders (and make the illegals come in by OUR laws); I won't vote for anyone who is against the Keystone Pipeline ( jobs for AMERICAN people);
I want a President who doesn't bow to every dictator in the world, I want a President that will make AMERICA proud and great like it used to be and so therefore, I will vote for either Rand Paul or Tim Cruz.....