Further evidence that this nation is being run by two criminal organizations...the Republican and Democratic parties.
The GOP is dead. People like Karl Rove killed it.
Sarah Palin now leads a Third Party whether she knows it or not.
The other two state Reps (R's) voted against.
I sent my Rep a scathing email and pointed out that he may face the issue in 2014.
He sent a reply (boilerplated, I'm sure) about how desperate Washington was about avoiding the fiscal cliff, yada yada yada. And that was why HE voted for it.
Unfortunately the majority of the “Republican establishment”, that includes most of the elected Republican US Senators and quite a few of the Republican US House members, would love to stay in the minority but keep their sinecures. Then we have idiots like Karl Rove ...
What silly nonsense.
The GOP establishment is on the verge of being taken over by conservatives and everyone here wants to get mad and leave!
Stupid. Cowardly.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by an establishment, and today’s eqaivalent (as I see it) is Sarah Palin ... a most-definite target for establishment Republicans.
Think like a Globalist Marxist bent on destroying the foundations of the one country with a history and a people that prevent your schemes. Then it’s easy to see where these pieces fit into the puzzle, fit into the long-range plan for the global domination of a Brave New World Order.
Teach your anarchists Cloward and Piven. Infiltrate the media and academia to promote a subversive agenda that undermines the country’s conservative heritage. Give the voters two parties to promote the illusion that a conservative can put a conservative into office. Destroy the economy by fiat and legislation and propaganda. Divide and conquer the races and the classes and the generations and the sexes. Institutionalize corruption. Destroy or subvert the checks and balances. Silence and disarm the people.
Understanding this, it is clear the GOP has been co-opted, and plays its role now in this plan. They are not our friends. They do not want what we want. They will join the rest in destroying us if they can.
the GOP rulers will most likely next try to “purify” their party by taking control of their own primaries. changing the rules and selecting their candidates in secret to shut out conservatives further. at that point conservatives had better be ready to put forth their own candidates from the outside.
first steps: register independent, other, decline to state, etc. and then concentrate at the local and state level on non-partisan offices (sheriff, etc.) just as if you were already a member of the conservative party.
and don’t worry. i’m told by the pundits that the GOP spends their time and money courting “independents” anyway.
And, this is a surprise to whom???
All of you morons(and you know who you are) who didn’t vote against “The One” are responsible for his re-election.
What a bunch of effin retards!
(not a Romney supporter)
At the same time, we won some of the elections with Tea Party candidates that kicked out establishment figures, e.g. Ted Cruz. And, last I checked, establishment Republican Senators lost elections along with the upstarts last year.
Coattails from the presidential election always drive the down-ticket results, and in this case the whole party suffered due to the establishment getting their unelectable pick for the presidential ticket.
That doesn’t mean that the Tea Party shouldn’t consider electability along with ideology as factors in selecting their primary picks. Experience in running campaigns and winning elections does help. Most of the Tea Party candidates that lost made some avoidable rookie mistakes.
If anything, the establishment should work with us on this. They should start giving full backing to grooming candidates who agree with conservative ideology. The message they should take from us is that we will not back down on ideology, so they should work hard to find candidates we will support and which they can then groom to be smoother politicians.
No prob. I’ll spend my vote elsewhere then.