The GOP are just another division of the Washington Establishment.
Posted on 09/22/2017 7:35:36 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Various aphorisms address adult liberal behavior, especially that of elected governing elites of the left.
When Democrats have the majority, they rule; when Republicans have it, they hold office.
You can govern or you can spend. Wow – ponder that!
Liberals lust after power to impose their coercive utopia upon the masses and to indulge their favored identity groups.
Republicans would like to have power; they're just not sure why, or what to do with it.
Democrats play offense; Republicans play defense...and have a miserable record in the red zone.
Liberals accuse conservatives of preaching gloom and doom; the latter are too polite to cite the former's penchant for flim and flam.
Conservatives have been accused of voodoo economics since the days of Reagan, while liberals have promoted boo-hoo economics since forever.
More than 30 years ago, Lady Thatcher spoke bluntly to this stark difference in behaviors when she told a fellow M.P., "The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain." This could be a vital clue to why most, if not all conservatives are unable to summon up the will to fight for the principles they claim to hold sacred.
No foolproof treatment has been discovered to date.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Focus on the policy agenda, which doesn't include guaranteed re-election.
You can't govern without power, but you can't retain power without governing successfully – and fulfilling the promises made to those who elected you.
Run toward the fire, not away from it. Both you, Speaker Ryan, and you, Leader McConnell, have to be the leaders of the moment you never thought you could be. Be generous in dispensing hormonal boosters to your troops.
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How about shock collars tied to AI, and every time they say or act against their campaign promises, they get shocked.
Primary them - preferably with a new party - the Federalist party.
They will never change - they must be removed. And anyone elected to replace them should be rotated out on a regular basis.
Force the RINOs out to form their own third party.
The GOP are just another division of the Washington Establishment.
In the last California governor’s election the GOP stuck us with Neel Kashkari.
Kashkari supports same-sex marriage, abortion rights, illegal aliens, gun control, and he believes in man caused climate change. He considers Jeb Bush his political mentor.
Neel Kashkari is an investment banker who worked in W’s Treasury Dept. He also worked in Obama’s administration. He says that he voted for Obama, twice. He’s properly multicultural, being Hindu.
That’s who the GOP establishment sees as the future.
The national GOP establishment savaged the Tea Party choice for California governor last time around.
They said that if Tim Donnelly was nominated it would cause losses all across the country. This was said by such GOP luminaries as Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Pete Wilson and Darrell Issa. It was echoed on radio by Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved.
Perfect! But beyond your thesis, is the idea virtually all of them have about their self-importance and their wallets. The other key point that needs to be made is that far too many of them are lawyers. I understand that lawyers in the UK are proscribed from being Members of Parliament, which should be codified on our Constitution. Because they are there to serve a very narrow constituency, and for the fact that you should not elect "mechanics to design cars."
Replacement. However, everyone wants to keep their own spineless worm, so nothing changes.
No.
The Republicans need go the way of the Whigs.
Replace the party leaders who are used to being the token resistance with real fighters.
Exactly right! In fact, they're showing quite a bit of spine by thumbing their noses at the people in order to defy President Trump. But they've miscalculated...bigly.
They think the old political paradigms are still in place and people who've always voted Republican will continue to do so because they think that we think the alternative is so much worse. The alternative is just more of the same.
I've been a Republican all my adult life. I voted for RWR in 1984 and voted a straight Republican ballot in every subsequent election. No more. I'm no longer a Republican and will only vote for patriots who promise to put country first and work to MAGA.
Ballot box.
It’s not that they have frail spines, rather it’s that they have no spines at all.
We need new Republicans.
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Gardner, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse, Ernst, Young, Boozman and Shelby are all undocumented Democrats in R jerseys
No argument there.
You can’t replace what isn’t there in the first place.
There is no known cure for Rinoitus.
Not sure about a “cure” but what needs to happen is to increase the number of conservatives in the Republican Party through the primaries. It’s simple math. We don’t have the numbers. Increase the numbers and then we have a shot at taking over leadership. Once we have control then there is at least the possibility of things happening in Congress.
But let’s back up. We can’t elect more conservatives unless the voters in those states elect them. There needs to be a more effective way of educating those voters besides the current internet blogs and forums that many don’t even know exist. This means a media alternative to Fox or a conservative takeover of Fox. Also need to be more aggressive in social media and other media instead of staying in a cacoon and ceding territory to leftists.
Bud Fox: “We got think big, guys. We are going after the majors”.
I personally found it shocking in the lead up to the 2016 primaries that so few people who claim to be activists or interested actually take part in or even have any knowledge of party processes. Generally speaking, a few like-minded people in any neighborhood can take over a party caucus in a non-election year and keep control when it matters more.
There are truly people who believe they are heroes for sacrificing a few minutes in an annoymous voting booth a few times a decade!
Well said! I agree.
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