Posted on 12/27/2012 1:20:29 PM PST by IbJensen
Here's a New Year's wish I would love to see come true. However it is defined or however many people are part of it, it is time to send the giant never-ending "GOP Establishment" made up of some professional politicians, some moneyed nouveaux riche who -- by virtue of their contributions and the faux friendships it buys with politicians -- consider themselves political landed gentry and the endless scam artist consultants they support packing.
As previously stated, I thought Mitt Romney to be a better candidate than did many observers. That said, the recent revelations in news articles that claim to chronicle the Romney campaign reinforce the idea that the "silk underwear" branch of the GOP just doesn't get it.
The emerging story of a candidate who really didn't want to run in the first place and consultants who never listened to pleas from his own family to humanize the man so that everyday people could "feel like he understands them" just makes conservatives and the GOP faithful sick. They once again spent their hard-earned money and endless time backing another Republican nominee who had no prayer of connecting with the average voter. Never mind that he was, at closer examination, a young man of privilege who outgrew his silver spoon to create his own hard-earned fortune, his case was never properly made.
And why is that? The answer is the current class of Republican "experts" and "consultants" who constantly blow into somewhere outside of their self-indulgent D.C. bubble and believe that they really do understand the "average American" in the 21st century. They do not.
Same for the well-entrenched elected officials, many of whom have gone from scrappy challengers of the status quo to fat and happy potentates. The so-called "experts" just sell any sort of snake oil a candidate or elected official and his loyal leeches will swallow. Hence, terrible focus-group-driven commercials, poor strategy in message and a "get out the vote" effort about as technologically advanced as the telegraph and with all the planning for contingencies as the Hurricane Katrina emergency efforts.
Until Republicans get rid of the inherent haughtiness of their operations, nothing will change. I've always described the GOP Establishment as a bunch who will hold a fundraiser, say, with an incumbent Republican president (don't hold your breath for that again anytime soon) or a nominee, or a governor's inauguration -- you name it -- with one unmentioned thing in mind: themselves. They inevitably make the event like one of those toys with endless boxes within boxes, each smaller than the one before it. That's how they do their big "fundraisers." There's the massive box, holding the masses -- where from the distance of a football field one might catch a fleeting glimpse or hear a bit of a speech or event.
From there on, the boxes get smaller and smaller -- and more elaborate. One huge amount gets you into a private reception; the next more expensive one warrants a 10 second photograph with the political star; then there's the price-busting one that gets you a 30 person private audience -- in which every dupe there fails to note that the leader of the free world or the top person in their state listens, speaks, leaves and likely forgets the whole thing five minutes later.
Oh, and then there is that last box. It's reserved for the same snooty creatures who have run everything in their subdivision of the GOP forever. They often are there because they helped take everyone else's money! But regardless, they are there, in the most private of rooms with the highest of public leaders, just hanging out. They are a small, cozy group -- the elite of the elite. Sort of like today's Republican Party -- a small, cozy group.
If I have to read one more story about some Republican official's great golf handicap or how much they all enjoy the private company of one another, I think I'll be sick.
Republicans need to retool their image and their mindset. Just shed all the king's trappings and some of the king's men. Keep the hardworking and in-touch ones, bring in fresh faces, understand the mindset of the next generation, but more than anything articulate what they stand for and, damn it, stand for it.
A little fire in the belly and purpose for being elected and holding office in the first place could at least start to get the GOP turned around before it really is too late.
There's your problem.
Defeating Democrats is futile if your ultimate goal isn't defeating liberalism. If you are willing to elect liberalism on the R ticket in order to defeat Democrats, you have acted destructively.
Liberalism, statism, and their appeal to envy, jealousy, anger, self-pity, sloth, lust, and covetousness, THOSE are what your goal should be to defeat, yet you help them to victory by pushing a candidate, Romney, whose entire political record was one of advancing a 100 percent liberal agenda. He got the first model of ObamaCare enacted, for crying out loud, and it included on-demand subsidised abortion! The guy is pro gun control, he's pro environmentalist agenda, and he's absolutely behind gays in the military, gays adopting babies (which really means he's all for prohibiting adoption agencies from refusing to cooperate). Romney is a leftist statist tyrant. How STUPID do you think American conservatives and regular-joes-sick-of-government are? Stupid enought to vote for the guy? Or afraid enough?
Romney was a loser, and he deserved to lose. God bless America.
I’d lay odds on “paid shill.” :^)
I am? How many of them have ever been elected to anything?
If you are glad Obama was reelected, you are SICK!!
It is extremely disappointing as this is the mindset that elects Democrats.
Always realize there is a choice and ALWAYS choose the better of the two choices. I will NEVER agree that Obama is more desirable than Romney--NEVER!
BTW, I did not support Romney at the caucus but when it came to making the decision between Romney and the Muslim/Commie Obama, it became very easy.
Oh, good grief, you just can’t stop pimping your stupid little “third party”, can you? What a loser!!
You are no better than any other traitor. It’s OK with you that Obama is reelected just as long as you get your 30 pieces of silver. You are a despicable human being.
God bless America.
That Romney was then and still is okay with you, proves that the first part of your screen name is an out-and-out lie.
You voted for a pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, pro-nationlized health care, pro-gay-adoption, pro gays in the military, pro environmentalist agenda, and pro liberal judge appointing politician.
I could say that you did that because you "are a despicable human being," but in reality, I think you are just a deceitful human being.
POST OF THE DAY.
If you need to know more, I can tell you but you're being hoodwinked and I think you have no interest in knowing the truth.
So, in what way am I “pulling the wool over” anybody’s eyes?
Please be specific.
I’ve always been completely open about who and what I am on FreeRepublic and everywhere else. I’ve played with all of my political cards face up on the table for all to see.
How about you? Does the general reader here know your actual name, and the positions you’ve held in the formerly grand old party, and your political associations?
Who’s pulling wool over eyes here, really?
Sadly, you’re acting just like an Alinsky Democrat.
You’ve become what you say you hate.
Thank you! :^)
Nice to see you, EV. :)
Nice to see you!
Can you spell out what or whom I have turned "traitor" against?
It’s OK with you that Obama is reelected..
I hate the fact that ninety-some percent of the American people who voted voted for a Leftist. So, that charge is certainly false.
...just as long as you get your 30 pieces of silver.
That's a very serious charge, with a specific scriptural meaning. Can you be specific about where and how I betrayed the Lord, or anyone else, for money?
You are a despicable human being.
Yeah, well, you may be right, but I'm sure glad the Lord loves me and died for me anyway.
And I'm glad He did the same for you.
Praying for you, old friend, that you will be able to overcome this deep bitterness you've developed for those whose consciences won't allow them to any longer support your party's liberal political candidates.
I’ve never run for president.
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