Posted on 11/17/2012 2:12:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Conservative scholar, talk radio host, and former Reagan administration official Mark Levin said conservatives need to first overthrow the Republican establishment to more successfully take on President Barack Obama and the institutional left.
“We cannot get through Obama and the left until we get through the Republican Establishment,” Levin said, railing against establishment consultants who attack the base and politicians who know nothing of “Burkean reform” because they have spent their whole careers “clawing their way to the top.”
In a talk at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday with his mentor, former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, for whom Levin served as Chief of Staff, Levin said the Republican Party is, “devouring the conservative movement,” and the old bulls need to step aside in favor of a new generation of conservatives who are fluent in conservatism.
“It’s time for the old bulls to get out of the way and for the fresh faces who believe in conservatism and liberty and originalist principles to step up,” Levin said, criticizing those like House Speaker John Boehner for “yielding territory” to the left in negotiations.
Levin said the Tea Party consists of constitutionalists, libertarians, Evangelicals, and those who are against the rigged establishment, beltway culture that for too long has not embraced conservatism and, as a consequence, lost national elections (George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney).
“The Tea Party is the only thing that stands between liberty and tyranny,” Levin said. “We have to defeat the Republican establishment mush in Washington, D.C.”
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Are you naive enough to believe that the Tea Party had the same potential to influence and direct the nominating process as the GOP-e?
Did you somehow fail to see that every time a real conservative came close to dominating the primary race, they were taken down by scandalous stories in the press? Do you really believe that all happened by sheer coincidence?
Do you honestly believe that we wound up with the guy who lost to McCain, as our nominee, because the voters really really wanted him this time around?
Trying to make the case that the Tea Party had the ability to put a check on the machinations and manipulations of an entrenched major political party, is simply building a straw man.
Yea, I’m seeing a lightning strike in your future.
Now, shove it up your A** sideways and howl at the moon...
Idiot
and there is no way you pay 8% Federal Income Tax unless you make around ....nothing....
Then again, a bit of hyperbole makes a story more interesting...too much and it’s just you trying to hard to prove to everyone else your just so much smarter than them...
Fake malarkey
Didn’t Levin, Hannity, Rove and a bunch of others say we couldn’t afford four more years of obama? Well, that’s what we face. Is this their plan to survive four more years? Getting rid of the “old bulls”? It’ll never happen.
Oh, and I forgot. “Let’s change the republican party from within.”
bump
Nah. The "commie" won because Romney was an unelectable creep and the GOP is in denial about it. The "indication that the American public, legal and illegal, has taken a vast swing to the left ..." is that Romney wouldn't have been much better.
Thinking there is somehow going to be a sort of awakening that suddenly sweeps across the United States whereby everyone puts down their selfish desires to live at others' expense and picks up a shovel to get to work is silly.
Those types are going to be out in the streets burning the place down and demanding their freebies that they have gotten used to.
Dependence does not create independence. Some of them may get it and change their ways. The vast majority will not.
Greece is rioting and on fire. If we go bust and the freebies get turned off, we will be on fire too.
Those types are going to be out in the streets burning the place down and demanding their freebies that they have gotten used to.
I don't totally disagree with you (except for the 'silly' part).
It's true that there's a certain contingent in this country that no amount of reality will get through to. They'll riot, loot, and burn, but in short order they're going to find out that the food bowl really is empty, and that there are no more confiscated stores with which to replenish it.
It's at that point, the light bulb comes on for those types. They're going to have some hard choices to make, and damn quick. They're going to suddenly find that without the large hand of government force to command it, their neighbors aren't so willing to allow them to steal and plunder their hard won resources.
Those who resort to violence and anarchy to feed off others anyway, will quickly meet a tragic end. The law of the jungle will prevail, and marauding parasites will be shot without prejudice. That will send a message to the less violent parasites that they'd better figure out how to earn a living, or starve.
Perhaps. It all depends on how many enablers they have. An organized mob is quite different from what we have seen before in the United States. We are getting a taste of it now with flash mobs. Very difficult to deal with.
Some of them will meet an untimely end, but many more others will simply overwhelm opposition. You've seen the pictures of the folks breaking glass and trampling others underfoot just at a Black Friday sale. Picture that as a daily event. Very unsettling.
My fear is that will be going on writ large. The law of the jungle will prevail, but not necessarily in the way we think it will.
We rugged individualists may just be overwhelmed. We won't know until it starts happening. With any luck, like-minded folks like the ones here will band together. That will be the only thing standing in the way of a determined mob.
I do not look forward to having to seriously consider dealing with that. Its a nice intellectual exercise for now and my hope is it remains simply a nice intellectual exercise and fails to become reality.
But Greece and even the UK are showing us that people don't take kindly to their goodies being taken away. The student riots in the UK over a simple tuition hike at their Universities are a serious harbinger of things to come here.
As a people, Americans are spoiled rotten, in many cases moreso than their European cousins who are taking to the streets and demolishing everything in their path.
The tea party is effective and powerful, it isn’t omnipotent.
The tea party accomplishments are historical, they are life changing for conservatives, and for the future of America.
Seriously, you want to know why they aren’t perfect, don’t win every election?
The next thing we know, after coming out against the tea party, you will want to dump on the leading conservative politician, Governor Palin.
Romney lost, take a look at the conservatives, they have something to offer too, rinoism isn’t everything.
So, you admit the Tea Party was ineffective in stopping Romney. We agree.
“...Boehner must go...”
Allen West for Speaker of the House.
Scott Walker and Allen West, 2016.
Yes, but not for the reasons you assume or allege.
bttt
“Boehner and McConnell are part of the problem, not the solution. ..”
It’s so frustrating that the Republicans have the House, but it means ZIP, because Boehner is it’s “leader.” Maybe the Tea Party needs to primary Boehner out of office. It might be the only way to replace him in the House.
What is the ANC?
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