Posted on 09/11/2012 11:11:27 AM PDT by Mozilla
Rick Tyler, former advisor to Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign and current advisor to Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday where he slammed the GOP for turning their back on his candidate. Tyler said that the Republican party would only have themselves to blame and warned of a “revolution in the Republican party” if Akin loses to Missouri’s Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
MSNBC host Alex Wagner said that, in her previous discussions with Tyler, she said that he had chosen an uphill battle by joining Gingrich’s campaign. She said that he appeared to have doubled down on his support for underdog candidates with his support for Akin who she said is viewed as a “villain” by some in the Republican party.
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Wagner asked if the Republican party would engage in some introspection following the loss of Mitt Romney and Todd Akin about the tone of their politics and the candidates the party nominates for office.
Tyler replied that, if Obama wins and the GOP fails to retake the Senate, “I think that this Republican party will have to completely, utterly and totally revamp its thinking, its strategy, what it stands for, how it trains, what it speaks about, how it recruits and the total abandonment – actually the professionalization of the party – and the abandonment of the grassroots.”
“If we lose the race, we only have ourselves to blame and I think there will be a revolution in the Republican party,” Tyler concluded.
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Becoming a clone of the Democrat party in order to win, is not winning
If Mitt Romney manages to lose in this economy...The blow back against the GOP and it’s rinos is going to resemble Mt. St. Helens in 1980!
The GOPe are thinking like Mensheviks and history knows what happened to them.
“The blow back against the GOP and it’s rinos is going to resemble Mt. St. Helens in 1980!”
People will be melting down keyboards saying that this is not the time, take the party over from within, these things take patience, no one can win with a third party, etc. etc. etc.
All of which will have one message: this is what we have, do not change it.
The GOP should have been ditched four years ago.
Led by fellow sufferers of Tourette syndrome.
If Romney loses, conservatives and tea partiers are going to be p ‘off at the GOP. It’s liable to split the party. Democrats think this will be good for them, but I think not. It will be very bad for the country.
“The GOPe are thinking like Mensheviks and history knows what happened to them.”
There is no need for two left wing parties.
Exactly!
It's more of a "Trojan Horse" than anything else.
Most are too busy "hurrahing" their side to realize just what it is they are "hurrahing"...
The Democrats are not very solid either. Look at the recent call by that pastor for Christians to leave the GOP. Look at that fiasco on the divided floor with regard to God and Jerusalem.
Both of these poisonous and fraudulent parties are showing cracks. Look at the fake votes at EACH convention, with Boehner and Villablahblahblah obviously lying about the results of floor votes.
The deck is going to be reshuffled soon in both parties, and I hope to live long enough to see both of them die.
If Romney loses, the GOP will cease to exist.
Whoops. Dead wrong. Should read:
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The Democrats are not very solid either. Look at the Democrat pastor who called for people to leave the party on right to life and sexual platform derelictions. Look at that fiasco on the divided floor with regard to God and Jerusalem.
Both of these poisonous and fraudulent parties are showing cracks. Look at the fake votes at EACH convention, with Boehner and Villablahblahblah obviously lying about the results of floor votes.
The deck is going to be reshuffled soon in both parties, and I hope to live long enough to see both of them die.
I do not understand what purpose a liberal-moderate party would serve. Except to get their leaders invited to the Democrat-MSM cocktail parties.
The RNC controls the levers of power in the party. There can never be change from within, it will NEVER be allowed-—NEVER. If they lose this year the only option is for a mass conservative exodus and it will require some big names in the Congress to show some guts and leadership and lead the exodus or you will have the same old crap in 2016.
BUMP
I agree with both your analysis and your solution. I murmured as much after 2008, but people were confident that the Tea Party would own the GOP. The opposite is more true at this point. That notwithstanding, the Tea Party’s discontents have NOT been mollified one whit. The boiler is going to blow one of these days.
“Becoming a clone of the Democrat party in order to win, is not winning”
You are right, but the way the party boys view it, it does not matter whether their candidate is conservative, only whether he or she has an “R” after the name. As a matter of fact, being conservative is a detriment as far as they are concerned since a conservative might, as Akin has done, vote against Republican big government programs.
GOPe members collecting money from the conservative public to use in any way they want to.
They could do the same thing being conservative however conservatives wouldn't tolerate their money being used in such a fashion.
I am still convinced that the GOP will no longer be the party for conservatives, it will be the right side of the socialist party as they are showing themselves to be presently.
Perhaps us conservatives should call our party appropriately "The Tea Party".
Yep. You just pointed out some of the factors in play. The silent majority is going to roar. They won’t be afraid of controversy. They will not be lulled like sheep.
And talk is cheap. If you think Akin should stay in the race - support his campaign (his son and wife on the campaign payroll will thank you).
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