Posted on 03/09/2015 5:04:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Oh my goodness, the 2014 election victories didn’t end the war! You mean the progressives are still out there dreaming of a future full of hugs and goosestepping? You mean the GOP Establishment hasn’t just given up its power and knelt before us, begging to be forgiven for its craven crony corporatism? You mean the fight’s not over?
No, the fight’s not over. So stop whining that you can’t go back to sitting on your rear end – we have a long campaign ahead. I know you’re tired. I know you’re frustrated. And I don’t care.
Some people want to throw in the towel just as we are approaching the knockout. News flash: Our opponents punch back. Time to take the hit and drive on.
We’re winning, only we haven’t won yet. So pick up your (figurative) weapons and follow me. The fight’s up ahead, and we’re going to keep moving to the sound of the guns.
Writer Brian Cates has the right idea. Jolted into action by Andrew Breitbart, as so many of us were, he watched conservatives win in 2010 and things marginally improve. Then 2012 moved us backwards. Then 2014 moved us forward again as we retook Congress. Then, last week, he watched Team Boehner and McConnell roll over on immigration funding after utterly botching their strategy in a manner that would make the French Army proud.
So, like all of us, he had reached a decision point. His options: Give up or fight on. In a brilliant series of tweets, collected here, he chose to fight on. (Hat Tip: Glenn Reynolds)
Yeah, the GOP stinks. Yeah, there is a contingent within the GOP that prioritizes its own power and position over conservatism. Well, welcome to human nature – a certain percentage of human beings simply suck. You can cry about it like Nancy Pelosi at a Bibi speech or you can man-up and deal.
The only viable strategy is this – complete the seizure of the GOP’s infrastructure, turn it completely conservative, and then go and defeat the liberals. And that’s hard. And that won’t happen overnight. And we’re going to be disappointed – probably a lot. But the alternative is to cede the country to the liberal fascists who want to force us to live in carbon-free huts, steal our sacred Constitutional rights, and peer into our bedrooms lest we commit felony cisnormativism.
I’m not willing to let that happen. What about you?
Understand that if you quit now because your widdle feewings got hurt cuz you didn’t win a particular fight means you have quit on America. Suck it up and drive on – I don’t care if you’re sad, mad or frustrated. Your feelings mean nothing. Fight.
I didn’t title my book Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009 – 2041 because I thought we would have this all wrapped up last November.
I’m a military guy, so I deal with the facts as they are, whether I like them or not. And here are the facts:
1. We conservatives have made huge, undeniable strides since 2010. There are more conservatives at every level of government except the presidency than there have been in a century. That’s tangible progress we can’t just fritter away.
2. At this moment, the GOP controls Congress, not conservatives. But the GOP is more conservative than it was, and every election it gets more so. We have fired many RINOs. We will fired more. No, they aren’t all gone yet, and because they are the Old Guard they, by definition, hold positions of seniority. But the next stop for people with seniority is the pasture – they are going away, slowly but surely. In a decade, McCain, Hatch and a bunch of other pseudo-cons will be just a vaguely troubling memory – and the generation coming up behind them is decidedly unsquishy.
3. There isn’t going to be a third party. The GOP has an infrastructure that is powerful, that is effective, and that we need to take over to use to promote conservatism. We can’t build a third party from scratch without giving the liberals the country for a couple decades, at the end of which our third party is likely to be outlawed anyway.
4. We are outworking, outthinking and outbreeding our withered, hateful, failed opponents. They are defending the status quo, and who is happy with that? The trends go our way. Look at the loser they are wheeling out in 2016 – an elderly, hypocritical cryptolibfascist email-shredder reeking of corruption and decay, whose satyr of a husband will undermine her by nailing every tramp he can get his gnarled paws on from now until election day. Bring her on. Oh yeah, we’re ready for Hillary.
5. In 2016, we are likely to nominate a conservative. Establishment darling Jeb Bush’s innovative strategy of alienating the people who actually vote in the GOP primaries is failing. He’s a loser. The only people excited about his candidacy are squishes who can write million dollar checks, Democrats and their mainstream media catamites, and Jeb Bush himself.
Victory is in sight, yet the pouters have to come out every time we don’t slam dunk a win and start their defeatist muttering.
“Oh, I’m sick of being fooled by the GOP!” Well, if the GOP fooled you, then you’re a sucker and an idiot. What would possess you to trust people who are not as conservative as you to be as conservative as you? We’re using them because at this moment we need them. We can often compel them through fear of our votes to hold their nose and vote our way, but ultimately we need to replace them and that takes time and effort. Until then, we need to deal with GOP noodle-spines with our eyes open and with a whip and a chair in hand.
“I’m never voting Republican again!” You tool. You just promised to actively support the destruction of our country and Constitution. That’ll show ‘em! You know, after liberals hear that kind of loser talk they want to cuddle and have a cigarette.
“The Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same!” Don’t be stupid. Obama is on defense because we took the Congress. Yeah, he’s pushing the envelope of the Constitution, but at the margins. His hopes for new grand fiascos? Gone. Sure, President Failure can make an executive order here and there, but cutting funding for, say, the FCC or the IRS to stop noxious executive actions doesn’t have the horrendous optics of defunding the Department of Homeland Security. By the way, if Team Boehner and McConnell are so tactically inept that they thought it was going to work to threaten to defund the entire DHS, why would we imagine they are tactically savvy enough to beat us over the long run?
I don’t want to hear about how hard this fight is. I don’t want to hear how sad you are. I want to hear how you went out and replaced that time-serving hack on your local GOP central committee.
Stop whining. Our country is at stake. This is going to be hard. Too bad. Now ruck up and move out.
I'm not assuming Jeb will be the nominee - that's why I said our real battle with be the primaries to get a conservative candidate in the general election. If, however, Jeb did get the nomination there is no way I could vote for him. I just don't see that he would be any different than whatever Dem gets the nod.
Ping
wow, great article here
A cursory search may not turn up KSs attitude towards HSex in the military. In his farewell writings upon his retirement from the military he stated his support in the repeal of don’t ask don’t tell and then expands on his this statement.
Does this mean you will not vote? or you will vote for a DemocRAT?
IMO, let it go. They are the ones who have to live with the results.
I would probably do a write in vote for Ted Cruz.
I really don’t know much about him, but like you, I did a bit of searching on him. The arguement he wrote in the following is quite faulty:
“We can often compel them through fear of our votes to hold their nose and vote our way...”
Thus far they have zero, none, nada, fear of our votes because it is US who has kept holding our noses and voting for the liberal just because he is the alleged ‘lesser of two evils’. We keep doing the same thing (voting for the GOP libtard) and keep hoping for different results. The author claims we need a longer timeline. I call BS. A longer timeline only allows the enemy to complete the fundamental transformation America. If I were to try and think like Rove (God forbid), seeing how their strategy of just calling libtard candidates conservative is failing, and the natives are getting restless, I’d hire someone like this author/attorney to write pieces like this encouraging the natives to keep pounding their head against the wall doing the same thing. C’mon, vote for the POS we’ve presented you with just one more time, and THIS time it will be different. And if you don’t, we’ll ridicule and mock you and call you all the same things you are tired of voting for.
BTW, I will never forgive myself for voting for the liberal Juan and the liberal Mittens. I also abhor that by the time the primary comes to NM the candidate is already chosen.
Amen, the nail hit square. Too much defeatism on FR.
The battle plan: first the Dems, get rid of them, next the RINO’s, get rid of them. This last election has done number one...mostly, next on the list, McConnel and Boehner.
Oh. Thanks for that.
Kurt is a dreamer. The only “fight” ahead is CWII.
Thanks for the ping, Gopher. It’s an excellent article. It sure seems to have riled up the surrender caucus here.
No Republicans will elect Hillary. When you don’t offer a choice you lose. Right now we have no choice. If you like getting kicked in the nuts time and time again and then told it was your fault, voting for Republicans is definitely the way to go.
If the Republican couldn’t beat obama in 2012 with his record how are they going to come close to Hillary? What do they offer at this point? Me too, only cheaper, like us please! So we get Jeb, Hillary in drag, big whoop.
You know darn well he is right. Wake up!!!
LOL! What has a GOP senate done for us so far? Not a damn thing, but they have helped Reid and obama every time they have said jump McWeasal has jumped out of his shell to do their bidding.
If the GOP nominates another eunuch in 2016 they will get obliterated in a landslide. The only chance is a conservative Cruz or Walker. But hey who ever said the GOP had walking around sense.
It looks like you are the one who’s whining, not the author
It means if Jeb gets the nomination and circlecity sits the election out because of it the rat nominee, whether it’s Hillary or Fauxtahona Warren will be be the next president will.
That is pretty much what I said.
Agreed.
When I’m being shot at, I don’t care if the bullets flying at me are painted red or painted blue. They both serve the same purpose. Likewise, I don’t care if a politician who either directly sponsors legislation that flys in the face of conservative values such as amnesty, anti-gun, pro abortion, pro sodomy legislation, or allows such legislation to go into effect by either doing nothing or approving funds for it, it matters not if that politician calls himself a conservative or a libtard, his actions serve the same purpose. I would be a fool to stand there and continue to take both red and blue bullets coming at me when there is absolutely no indication that the fusillade is going to let up. There may be a colonel off on the sidelines shouting out “stand there in that gunfire just a little bit longer! Can’t you see that it’s going to stop soon?” as my fellow soldiers fall beside me. Yeah, that’s the ticket! As the fundamentals of conservative values, and the pillars that support everything that make this nation what it is, are being irreversibly destroyed before our very eyes, Lucy is off on the sidelines saying this time she won’t pull the football away. Worse yet, if Charlie Brown doesn’t fall for it again and doesn’t run yet again towards that football, fellow peanuts start ridiculing him!
B.S! A libtard is a libtard no matter what colors he chooses to fly on any given day, and doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results IS insanity. No one should surrender! But we need to do SOMETHING different, and continuing to give the Republican Party our votes while they GIVE the nation to the Marxists, is not doing anything different.
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