The Mask is Off

American Thinker ^ | January 28, 2012 | Ebben Raves

[Hotlanta Mike]

Last Thursday will be remembered as the day the Republican establishment unveiled its true face. We know they've just been inside the beltway too long. We expect their informed opinion to tilt in whatever direction keeps them on the cocktail circuit. That's why many of us don't pay a whole lot of attention to them. But to bring out John McCain and Bob Dole to give us advice on picking presidential candidates and have who we thought were "our" pundits treat it as gospel? Next they will tell us ObamaCare is not so bad. Oh wait, they're already priming that pump.

Let's face it, Reagan was an aberration. Before and since, can anyone truthfully say that the party has gone to the mat for conservative, TEA party values? Or has it been just lip service? Why is it always that when we seem to be inside the twenty on an issue that matters, such as cutting the size of government and holding it accountable, we can never score? Newt tried somewhat in the nineties, but was stabbed in the back by his own party. What happened when the Republicans had both houses and the presidency? What happened to the House of Representatives the TEA party put in office in 2010? Excuses. There always has been and there always will be excuses.

That brings us to this election cycle. Mitt Romney is the establishment's man. Never mind that Romney has never done anything conservative. Never mind that it is leaking out that he probably won't get rid of ObamaCare, the issue that gave Republicans the House in 2010. Never mind that his biggest qualification is that he is a businessman. So is George Soros. Pretty much the same kind of business, too. Woe on to anyone who is a threat to the status quo that challenges him, though. They will be attacked with a fervor never unleashed on a Democratic opponent.

Now why is that? As always, money and power. And, as Ayn Rand told us, the biggest pile of either resides in Washington, DC. For the Republican and Democratic establishment and their lackeys, it has never been about principles or the middle class. It has always been about saying or doing whatever it takes to feed at the public trough. Anyone who gets in their way or dares to shrink the trough will be destroyed. Those at the trough do share with each other, though. How often do you see anyone from either party suffer consequences from fleecing the taxpayer?

So, TEA party, constitutional conservative folks, we have a choice to make. We can stay on the plantation, run away or abolish it. The first choice is easy and we may even see some scraps from time to time. The last two will be more difficult, but since we now know the face of the enemy, not so much.

Ebben Raves is a veteran, constitutional conservative activist, and speaker who teaches American history and has been a guest on several talk radio shows. He can be reached at ebshumidors@yahoo.com

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[Lancey Howard]

This is a finely written piece. Excellent.

[Qbert]

As painful and shocking (to some) as it was, I think time will show that Bloody Thursday was one of the best things that could have ever happened to us. No longer will we have to wonder who is saying what behind our backs in the closed rooms.

If somebody doesn’t like you- isn’t it much better to have them say it to your face, rather than making you wonder all the time?

[Major Matt Mason]

I would think it would have to be a new party, although that is never an easy choice. Fiscal conservatives are probably the majority in the GOP, except where it matters the most - at the top of the party. The "moderates" at this point are simply in collusion with the Democrats to hang onto whatever power they can maintain, which makes them no better than the Democrats. There is truly no difference between a Democrat and a moderate Republican these days, and Romney is the proof of this.

[ebshumidors]

Is Ebben Raves a freeper? You betcha!

[COBOL2Java]

Newt led the revolution that put the Republicans in control of the house for the first time in 50 years. Unfortunately, a lot of those freshmen class members got co-opted (to use Trent Lott's term) and corrupted by the environment, and grew to love having control of the Federal Teat more than loving their country (the Bob Michel RINOs that were already there probably helped).

Some of them are still there, opposing Newt's run for the Presidency. They got behind Romney because they believe he will keep the gravy train going, whether or not he defeats Obama (the only thing that matters is getting majorities in the House and Senate).

[Resettozero]

Thanks for the article. These are my observations of this week’s events.

All Republicans except true Conservatives are pushing MR, with the daily media’s assistance. MR is no longer courting Conservatives in Florida...or anywhere else this week.

Republican Party appears to believe it has a path to elect a President and Republican Congress utilizing Independents and disenfranchised Democrats in place of Conservatives’ votes.

I wonder if the Republican Elite have concluded they can govern from a moderate/moderate-left platform (no-real-convictions either way), and can enlist disenfranchised Democrats, who now don’t want Obama either, to help elect a liberal Republican as President, with the unwilling assistance of Conservatives who, the Elites think, will vote against Obama no matter what.

The Elites seem intent to break the power of Conservatives by catering to enough Democrats and non-Conservative Independents, overpowering our candidates so they won’t have to put up with us anymore in this or coming national elections.

They’ve moved their chess pieces into position this week to show us how the game is going to go, no matter what we Conservatives may want to happen.

I pray they are wrong. They probably are. Fire away.

[Resettozero]

To sum it up:

If a liberal/moderate Republican is going to be the nominee and it is a given that all Conservatives are going to vote Republican (against Obama) in this election anyway, then we Conservatives no longer have a loud enough voice to select a President nominee now or in the future. We HAVE to vote for who they say.

[lonevoice]

Ping for another great article from "American Thinker"

April 15, 1994

House Minority Whip Gingrich and 7th District congressional candidate
Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River
on April 15, 1994 as part of a "Taxpayer's Tea party" in Roswell, Georgia.

[voicereason]

Good article. Exactly on point.

[Resettozero]

I’ve felt ever since the SC primary that some Elites are planning a Romney/Santorum ticket, to appease some Conservatives. They think the rest of us Conservatives will vote them in just to defeat Obama and no other reason.

If these Elites are correct, the Republican Party will never nominate another Conservative for President...ever.

[Chode]

works for me...

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Let’s be really be brave like we were with Reagan. Let’s try Santorum. He’s uniform. He never changes what he says. If anybody was in the shadow of Reagan, he is. Why don’t other people see it?

Go Santorum!!!

[Clock King]

Word! I've been saying that for a while. If Romney is the Nominee and loses, then 2012 will mirror 1852 and the GOP will go the way of the Whigs.

As Barry Obama would say, it's been 160 years, it's time for a change!

[Tribune7]

Newt was driven out by the ones who wanted to spend the money.

[LucianOfSamasota]

We need to find candidates of integrity who will ‘go to the mat’ to bring government under control; an stop worrying about electability. What good is it to elect a candidate who will fit in with the rest of them?

[APatientMan]

“Is Ebben Raves a freeper? You betcha!”

Well that’s just cool. Very, very cool.!

[Hotlanta Mike]

1994 Romney: The Blind Trust is an age old ruse

http://www.therightscoop.com/1994-romney-the-blind-trust-is-an-age-old-ruse/

[Hotlanta Mike]

1994 Romney: The Blind Trust is an age old ruse

http://www.therightscoop.com/1994-romney-the-blind-trust-is-an-age-old-ruse/

[erlayman]

I don’t see Newt as a Tea Partier at all, but he is the best we have in a very weak field against Romney. And if conservatives pull it off, the big government Republican will still anoint them with considerable influence within a Gingrich administration. Mitt wins on the other hand, they will not only not get the time of day but will systematically dismissed and dismantled in Congress. Sad that it has come to such a ridiculous farce of a choice, but alas here we are. Depressing is too light a word.

[PGalt]

Very, very good article. Thanks for posting; thanks for writing.