The Republican Establishment's Strategic Blunder

The American Thinker ^ | January 30, 2012 | Steve McCann

[mojito]

I’m bumping this terrific piece for those who may not have seen it.

[Qbert]

"The overriding interest of this cabal has been and continues to be: the accumulation of power through the control of the income, borrowing and spending by the Federal Government.   Thus, with the exception of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the Republican controlled House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, the Republican members of the Ruling Class have been content since 1952 to merely slow down the big-government policies of the Democrats while publicly decrying their tax and spend policies."

Excellent point.

[Tribune7]

In Pennsylvania, the party-establishment endorsed a guy who voted for Obama to take on Little Bobby Casey in the Senate race.

[Darren McCarty]

Yep, and "Romney is electable because of polls long before the election" . And I always respond with this.

1. How can Romney beat Obama.
2. How will Romney get independent voters (They look for competence and trust more than ideology). Romney isn't trusted. That's his problem. Always was.

[neverdem]

• hypocrites in sexual matters (Herman Cain); or
• unstable (Michelle Bachmann); or
• ignorant and incoherent (Rick Perry); or
• a religious fanatic (Rick Santorum); or
• just plain weird and from another planet (Ron Paul); or
• dangerous and unelectable (Newt Gingrich).

Sarah Palin would have been placed in all of those boxes had she decided to run, as well as anyone else deemed not acceptable to the elites.

The GOP elites are pretty dumb when the Jacksonian Democrats are low hanging fruit.