I ... am ... already ... dead!
Posted on 05/29/2013 10:02:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
In a broad slap at the the uncompromising stands of conservative Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee, the liberal Brookings Institution's top political scholar charged this week that the Tea Party trio are leading the Republican Party to disaster and minority status.
Thomas Mann said that their stubborn style of politics that's been rapped even by some mainstream Republicans, notably the self-styled "maverick" Sen. John McCain, will lead to a voter revolt that will elect more Democrats to the House and Senate, the presidency, and eventually have the remaining GOP members begging to do business with Democrats.
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[T]he solution to fixing Washington has only two routes: "Either a dominant one-party, Democratic system to get something done," he said, or a "situation where the Republican Party returns to its sanity and to a position of problem solving."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“Problem-solving”: Defined as - where Republicans agree to half of what Democrats want this year, and the other half next year.
Brookings Institute = left wing nut jobs
The “tea party” actually constitutes the “opposition” party nowadays. The GOP itself has all but relinquished that role.
If by “killing the GOP” they mean “replacing it with a conservative alternative” then great.
Since that isn’t what they mean, I’ll simply make my customary observation when liberals write about conservatives.
Trusting the Brookings Institution to write about the Tea Party is like trusting Willie Sutton to work at your bank.
Rat single party rule was associated with the kkk.
Concern trolls at Brookings.
What we need is a translation here.
Washington DC-ese=English
Washington DC-ese: Brookings: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee will kill GOP
English: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee will kill my chances at Washington DC cocktail parties
Good. It's been writing and twitching for years. Time to put it out of its misery.
” I think the only thing Rubio has proven himself to be a threat to is America.”
Nailed it.
Isn’t Mann of UVA climate scam fame ?
False. Amnesty will kill GOP!
Suppose this were true. Many commentators thought the last election signaled the loss of the country anyway, and developments since then have tended to confirm that analysis. Clearly, the culture war has been lost, and the most vile social decadence is now the order of the day, even in those institutions that we once counted on as bulwarks against barbarism. So the alternatives politically are surrender or principled minority status? I know what I prefer.
Yeah right.
What’s next? Will the IRS warn conservatives we might be ‘over-reaching’? ‘Cause we all know how much the IRS luvs us - about the same as Brookings. They can take their phoney concern and shove it...
Erk. That’s WRITHING and twitching. You know...dead but not finished dying. Like a chicken with its head cut off. (Why do all these things sound so apt??)
The IRS is issuing a statement saying because they care so much about conservatives they want us to know we'd do better - MUCH BETTER - if we just stated supported Obama.
Just the other day we went through a little exercise where we had 1 million Baby Boomer Republicans per year dropping dead or becoming so disabled they could no longer vote.
The picture is far from gloomy. That, BTW, explains the drop off from 2004 to 2008 ~ then the climb by a million from 2009 to 2012.
As I said to libLieSlayer just this Sunday:
"To: LibLieSlayer hardly ~ Dems die at a slightly higher rate than Reps ~ been that way since the party was founded. Let's say 4 million Reps die (or become so disabled they can no longer vote), and 4.5 million Dems die.
That gives us a 1/2 million advantage over a 4 year period. This is probably one of the motives that keep the Democrats constantly focused on voter registration.
Over an 8 year period that'd be 1.0 million fewer Dems than Reps.
In 2007/2008 the Dems made the greatest voter registration advance in their history ~ and there are Dem professionals who've said they felt like they'd pushed the limits of possible Dem registration. In the end they got 69,000,000 votes ~ the record of any party!
By 2012, after 4 years Obama lost 4 million votes ~ which is just a few less than 4.5 million who should have died. That meant they got an additional 1/2 million new voters!
In contrast, Republicans lost their usual 4 million but they got an additional 5.0 million voters simply through additional registrations.
Now that's not going to push us over the top but that's 10 times as many new voters as the Dems got!
We really need to redouble our efforts, and do that now ~ get the new Republicans in the habit of voting for Republican candidates. Best way to do that is give them candidates who are Republicans. After all, Republicans, like Democrats, when given a choice between the real deal and a fake candidate, always chose the real candidate.
Jefferson knew that BTW. So did Harry Truman.
75 posted on Monday, May 27, 2013 1:18:23 PM by muawiyah"
NOT: Romney wasted his time and didn't advocate an enhanced and aggressive new Republican voter registration drive ~ to get that additional couple of million votes we needed to crush the forces of evil.
But somebody was sure doing some serious voter registration ~ or I couldn't come up with these numbers so easily. Sorry about earlier missing that 5 million new Republican voters thing, but by now the Brookings Institute trolls have already discovered it ~ and it's probably bigger than that. But what about Heritage, and The Federalist Society, and a whole bunch of others who have far more resources than I do ~ why didn't they notice that we needed 5 million more voters on the Republican side of the issues to give Mitt that extra 1 million over McCain?
Could our Conservative and Libertarian think tanks be going senile ~ ?
OPPOSITE!!!!!!
I’m sure Brookings views the hard line liberal ideology of Harry Reid, nancy Pelosi and the rest of the dem leaders as “conciliatory.”
If limited government, low taxes, traditional values and a tight border policy are too much for Americans to stomach, they’re not worth representing anyway.
“Either a dominant one-party, Democratic system to get something done”
- Kim Il Sung
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