Posted on 02/24/2016 7:41:04 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
For the last eight months or so, a significant portion of the Republican party's voters have been in thrall to a bizarre, Occupy-esque conspiracy theory, which holds as its central thesis that sabotage and pusillanimity are the root causes of the Right's recent woes. In this mistaken view, the conservative movement's failure to counter all of the Obama era's excesses is not the product of the crucial democratic and structural factors that prevent any one faction from ushering in substantial change, but of a lack of will or desire. Sure, the advocates of this view will concede, the shutdown of 2013 was doomed from the start, in large part because the public sided with President Obama. But if the GOP had just held out a little longer, they imagine, the "power of the purse" would have prevailed and the popular dynamics would magically have shifted. The same insistence obtains elsewhere: Sure, there is no precedent in which a second-term president willingly repeals his centerpiece legislative achievements simply because the legislature has elected to play hardball with its powers. But somehow, the critics believe, this time would have been different. Why, they ask repeatedly, didn’t the Republican party just "fight" harder?
Given how broadly this opinion is held, one would have expected the 2016 primary season to reveal a penchant for purity that redounded to the favor of a candidate such as Ted Cruz. And yet, oddly enough, quite the opposite has happened thus far. Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed.
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Except the GOPe is fresh out of uranium 235 and plutonium. ;-)
Funny ironic that I just flipped the channel to Turner Movie channel and I see people opening their windows and shouting, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it any more!!” I have no idea what movie it is, but I felt like joining them in the shouting.
The more beatings he gets the stronger his appeal. LOL, they’re really scared of him, and I don’t think its because he’s a threat to the people, he’s more of a threat to the wheeling and dealing DC Cronies. He’s going to upset the apple cart. (Actually, Kill their golden goose would be a better description.) We need to bring back that the Business of America is business, not a fire sale.
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So why would a bunch of people who are pro-Trump, but anti-GOP and anti-incumbent, vote to keep a bunch of GOP career politicians in the Senate?
Heck, there are Trump-supporting Freepers screaming to throw out all the establishment politicians. If anything, that's negative coattails for those 24 GOP seats.
And just exactly what have these 24 seats done to hold back the DEMS...........NOTHING!!!! NOT A DAMN THING!!!
Because while it is taking you a few election cycles to tear down the edifice of the GOP and build something new that can compete (if that is even possible), the Democrats will run the table on the Supreme Court and Congress. And by the time your new party is ready, it will be too late.
I’d think that would be obvious.
First, thanks for proving my point about Trump supporters and negative coattails for GOP Senators. Much appreciated.
Second, I'd say that those 24 Senators refused to approve Obama's immigration plan, and so the 5-4 Court threw that out. They also refused to approve those carbon regs, so the 5-4 Court threw that out as well. And they've consistently refused to approve transferring prisoners to the mainland from Gitmo, so they've stymied him there too.
And third, they're also holding up that Supreme Court nominee, who would reverse the ruling on immigration, reverse the ruling on carbon emissions, and would reverse Heller and throw out the Second Amendment.
But hey, let's throw all those bums out and let Democrats win all those seats. I'm sure you'd like what they'd do so much better!
>>In this mistaken view, the conservative movement’s failure to counter all of the Obama era’s excesses is not the product of the crucial democratic and structural factors that prevent any one faction from ushering in substantial change, but of a lack of will or desire. <<
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Well, they NEARLY stood up to him at the Battle of Angor. :-)
Does Donald really love the highly educated? They don’t love him.
So he’s not that other Charlie Cook.
It seems a bit too late for a Manhattan Project vs. Trump.
Maybe Cook can stir up some help for the Redcoats.
I am not a Trumpette, but I have to laugh at all of these media guys get their panties in a bunch over Donald.
It is going to be fun watching them go into spasms after next Tuesday.
Just who ARE these maggots at national review and why should i give a damn what they have to say? They look like a bunch of Wile E. Coyotes.
I’ve been on this site 14 years. Every single day a new story gets posted and posters here reply anti RINO, anti GOP-e, anti establishment comments, which I fully agree with. But, can anyone explain to me why now the biggest RINO yet is now,in in the drivers seat for the GOP nomination?
Trump is no Conservative. He wasn’t last week, month, year or decade. I am not really sure he is a republican, he’s never voted republican, he for the most part does not give to republicans, he says his most poisonous rhetoric for conservative republicans. His policy is all over the place from one day to the next, with still no specifics after almost a year of running.
I really get the Ron Paul vibe of supporters here and this bothers me a great deal. Are we about to nominate a guy whom I believe is obnoxious, off putting, rude and and more than a little unbalanced, with a dash of crazy? This man does not pass the smell test. Something is really wrong with Trump and I cannot in good conscience get behind that.
What makes you think that someone who recognizes the danger of Trump is automatically ‘The establishment’?
On what are you basing that assertion?
So Trump, one of the few people who truly deserves the label "RINO", is worshiped by the anti-RINO crowd. Wow.
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