Molly Ball
Posted on 10/17/2013 4:54:44 AM PDT by xzins
On his radio show recently, Glenn Beck urged his listeners to “defund the GOP.” Sarah Palin has threatened to leave the Republican Party; Rush Limbaugh calls it “irrelevant.” The Senate Conservatives Fund has targeted mainly incumbent Republican senators for defeat. Erick Erickson, one of the right’s most prominent commentators, wonders if what's coming is “a real third party movement that will fully divide the Republican Party.”
Conservatives have declared war on the GOP.
Tired of feeling taken for granted by a party that alternately panders to them and sells them down the river, in their view, Tea Partiers and others on the right are in revolt. The Republican Party itself is increasingly the focus of their anger, particularly after Wednesday's deal to reopen the government, which many on the right opposed.
"Conservatives are either going to split from the GOP or stay home. They'll first expend energy in primaries, but if unsuccessful, they'll bolt."
Erickson, a former Republican elected official in Georgia... “I think the GOP is already splitting,” he said, with grassroots activists feeling “played” by elected officials’ unfulfilled promises to defeat Obamacare.
Steve Deace, an Iowa-based talk-radio host, said his audience has never been angrier. “They’re tired of electing a bunch of Republicans who care more about what the media thinks about them than what the people who elected them think,” he told me. “Why do I care whether John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House? Why do I care whether Harry Reid or ‘Ditch’ McConnell is the Senate majority leader? What changes? Nothing changes.”
Sean Hannity, on his radio show on Monday, said he’d previously opposed a third party, but “I’m not so sure anymore. It may be time for a new conservative party in America. I’m sick of these guys.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
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The cri de coeur of the Republican pragmatist: “I have a philosophy, too. But parties are coalitions.” http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-conservative-war-on-the-gop/280637/ …
Molly Ball @mollyesque 2h
Few things make me stabbier than the gender essentialism of “women are better at working together & compromising.” Tell it to Sarah Palin.
Molly Ball @mollyesque 3h
Tea Party to GOP: We want a divorce http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-conservative-war-on-the-gop/280637/ …
Looks like a brunette DWS.
Karl Rove @KarlRove 16h
In tomorrow’s @WSJOpinion: “Republicans Walked Into Obama’s Trap”
http://ow.ly/pTrqR
Molly Ball @mollyesque 16 Oct
GOP member of Congress told me a couple weeks ago, “Ted Cruz is a brilliant communicator, but he probably never played team sports.”
Jennifer Rubin @RubinBlogger 16 Oct
@mollyesque he wasn’t picked and its been payback ever since!
K Kelly @GrainOfSands 16 Oct
@mollyesque That means he’s a bullshitter. Says a lot but watch where you step
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Molly Ball @mollyesque 16 Oct
Radio host @SteveDeaceShow: “I loathe the GOP establishment with all my heart, but even I am embarrassed for them.” http://stevedeace.com/news/national-politics/breaking-obama-routs-the-gop-again/ …
“Journalist” ???!!
Molly Ball @mollyesque 16 Oct
Congratulations, Republicans! You’re getting exactly nothing for shutting down the government for two weeks. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/republicans-shut-down-the-government-for-nothing/280611/ …
The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic 16 Oct
How House Republicans wasted a day: The rise and fall of a doomed GOP proposal http://theatln.tc/18lAvhx
Republicans never expected to get a fair shake in the Big Three networks' coverage of the 16-day government shutdown, but the final tally of stories blaming the GOP is stunning: 41 stories blamed Republicans and zero blamed Democrats.
I agree. George W. Bush drove me away from the Republican party. Now I vote conservative, though sometimes those folks have an ‘R’ by their name.
The Atlantic likes the fact that the current GOP is just another wing of the Democrat Party.
Agreed. Boehner is a failure as a leader. He has no stomach for a fight. He folds like a cheap suit.
Other than Cruz, I don’t see a Republican who truly has core values....They just stick their finger in the air and try to figure out which way the political winds are blowing and go with the flow.
Yes, I think I’ve read enough to understand the process. Point being, the Dems/Fed don’t abide by the Const. NOW, what’s to keep the States/Dems from doing the same?
No, I wouldn’t trust a bunch of lawyers further than I could throw them (overboard w/ a pair of cement shoes....AAhhh, what a sight THAT would be).
No, I wouldn’t trust a bunch of lawyers further than I could throw them (overboard w/ a pair of cement shoes....AAhhh, what a sight THAT would be).
Concur...Family members included...harsh but truth.
Ah, so it was the purse strings that finally kicked it into high gear (in your case)?
It wasn’t arbitrarily enforcing those (parts of) laws he liked which ignoring the others?
...re-writing the laws w/out Congressional approval?
...gov’t ‘slowdown’ that intentionally inflicted paid upon the Citizens?
...the total bending over of the Congressional GOP, handing the DEMS/O everything they want?
Hell, what’s a few more $T on the pile of funny $$, at this point, anyway? What representation do We now have? Whom ‘speaks’ for the taxpayer? Whom ‘speaks’ and upholds the Constitution?
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