Posted on 09/15/2010 12:30:17 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
GOP leaders -- Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John Boehner, Karl Rove and others -- as well as establishment Republicans have no idea how livid Americans are with them.
Republican leaders are in a panic because they have lost control of the Republican Party.
Grassroots constitutional conservatives are inside the Citadel, and are poised to take over.
All across the country -- in the Northeast, the South, the West -- Americans feel betrayed by Republican politicians. Last night’s election results show that the grassroots anger is directed at more than just the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Democrats.
Christine O’Donnell’s inspiring upset in Delaware, Ovide Lamontagne’s populist and improbable surge in New Hampshire, Carl Paladino’s trouncing of Rick Lazio in New York -- and previous primary wins by Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Joe Miller, etc. -- all have been the result of the grassroots uprising against big government and the ‘ruling class,’ and in spite of the GOP establishment.
Never before in American history has a movement made such momentous change in such a short period of time.
As Reagan said in 1976, Americans want new leaders unfettered by old ties and old relationships.
The symbolically stupid decision last night by the National Republican Senatorial Committee not to fund Christine O’Donnell’s general election campaign, which it reversed this morning only after a massive grassroots uproar, and Karl Rove’s meltdown on Fox’s Hannity show will only fuel further primary challenges to GOP political leaders.
Current GOP leaders not ‘retired’ in 2010, will be in 2012 and 2014, and can join their former colleagues, such as Trent Lott, on the K Street lobbying circuit. And, they should get used to saying, ‘Majority Leader DeMint.’
RINO’s MUST BE PURGED!
You're absolutely right. Any RINO that moves to the right now is absolutely untrustworthy and should never be elected again. All that shows is that they can tell which way the wind is blowing. I don't want them. They can go to a very hot place, as far as I'm concerned.
“The GOP belongs to the people that do the electing not to the “leaders”. If they are smart they will acknowledge the will of the people and fall in line. The people give the marching orders, not the other way around. It’s our fault really, we have been slacking off on our duty and let the public servants think that they were rulers. They are not.”
Well said.
We lead, they follow. Or else, we fire them.
I love that poster...
Oh I know we have a ways to go. RINO hunting season will be open year round till at least 2016.
“Didn’t Bush say, shortly after Obama was elected, that there “is no conservative movement”?”
Exactly. How could there have been, after he and Rove were finished?
Isn't it wonderful? Rush cracked me up today when he said of Karl Rove's remarks about Christine O'Donnell, "I decide who can and cannot win, and I haven't said that O'Donnell can't win, therefore it is NOT true."
Sorry, a little animated today.
“They didn’t lose the GOP, they are giving it away by not listening to the people. The people are taking it away from them. I don’t think they realize how much power they could have if they listened to the people. Democrats are learning this real fast. The problem with the Democrats is that their power structure won’t allow them to listen to the people. Republicans still have a chance if they just pay attention to the will of the people. If they gain the House and Senate, cut the government down to what it was meant to be. After that, they need to tell the Middle East that they must stand up for themselves. We are not staying and we will not keep supplying our kids for their fodder.”
BUMP
“That is the most pleasing headline I’ve read in a long, long time.”
Mine, too. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to share it.
“If the Republicans did one thing while in office, stripping some of the powers from the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority leader would go a long way to curing many of the problems we have seen in DC.”
Also, stopping the omnibus bills where they put hundreds of bridge-to-nowhere earmarks into a bill to fund the military or millions to teach Africans to practice hygiene into a bill to fund the coast guard. The garbage spending will never stop until this is prohibited.
That has to stop, and, as usual, the Republicans have been as bad on this issue as the Dims.
Limbaugh never should have been with those guys in the first place.
“I the South, this situation has been called “the tail wagging the dog”. The dog is now fed up and has decided to wag his own d@mn tail.”
Yeah, the dog has had it and is now putting the tail back in its proper place. Very appropriate saying.
Excellent post.
That jerk Voinovich is retiring—one RINO down at least.
“You know, even if we lose the DE seat to Coons, Christine’s victory last night might end up netting us a couple new Senators in the next congress anyway: RINOs who will now be too scared to betray the base ever again.”
Michele Bachmann.
Good point!
“I worked the polls in the most Republican Wards of the most Republican City of the most Republican County in WI yesterday. We had more than 25 people waiting at the door at 6:45 AM yesterday. I’ve NEVER seen that happen — even for a General, much less a Primary. Our turnout was around 45%. There were WAY more Republican voters than Dem voters yesterday. These same Wards elected John McCain in 2008, but by a SLIM margin. The older voters were out in force and came in wheelchairs, walkers, and on canes. I’ve never seen anything like it. I registered 65 new voters at a PRIMARY.”
Very encouraging report. I have followed politics for a long time and do not remember any election cycle like this one. I remember the excitement during Reagan’s 1980 candidacy and knowing something was in the air. And the recognition that Clinton was going to get his butt kicked in 1994. But I never remember seeing a message sent to the Republicans by conservatives before. It’s going to get very interesting before it’s all over.
I’d like to compare O’Donnell’s take today versus the RiNoC’s take over the last month or so.
“GOP leaders — Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John Boehner, Karl Rove and others — ...”
And just who appointed them “leaders?”
Did they self appoint themselves?
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