GOP Gives Up Virginia To Democrats Instead Of Giving Tea Party and Social Conservatives A Win

When the facts are considered in the slim victory that terribly flawed Democrat Terry McAuliffe had against Ken Cuccinelli, it’s hard to deny the conclusion that the Republican party decided it was better to abandon Virginia to the Democrat party than to allow the Tea Party and social conservatives to win.

The Republican National Committee spent three times as much in 2009 on the same race as they did this year. The Chamber of Commerce spent one million dollars in the last Governor’s race, and not one dime on Cuccinelli. While its often claimed that Tea Party candidates do poorly among independents, Cuccinelli actually won independents by 9 points, 47 percent to 38 percent. “McAuliffe outraised Cuccinelli by almost $15 million,” and in the last weeks of the campaign, this left Cuccinelli with nearly no media exposure. Even Politico wonders if Cuccinelli was beginning to turn the tide against the “War on Women” narrative, as he drove down McAuliffe’s lead among women from 24% in polling to 9%.

In the last month, Cuccinelli’s claim that the election was a referendum on Obamacare started closing the gap for him – the continuing debacle of Obama’s signature legislation was taking its toll on his opponent. But ultimately, he couldn’t close the gap without help.

Help that disappeared in the last weeks of the campaign, and could have pushed him over the top.

Finally, a libertarian third party candidate served as a spoiler, stealing a fair percentage of votes away from Cuccinelli, and diluting the conservative message.

To be sure, there were some missteps in the Cuccinelli camp, but the final results show that this could have been a win for Republicans, and the loss was due in no small part to the reticence of the national Republican party to support a social conservative.

If the Republican establishment had thought it important enough to carry Virginia into the “R” column instead of using the loss as a cudgel to beat the grassroots Tea Party insurgent movement, perhaps it would have devoted more resources towards winning this crucial election.

Instead, we’ll continue to hear how “extremist” conservatives can’t win elections, while they praise the Obama-hugging moderates like Chris Christie.

Barak Obama's qualifications to be president of the United States were limited to community organizing and winning elections by dubious means.

Hillary Clinton's qualifications include running a war room to destroy women who outed her husband for his sexual perversities.

Even before Bill Clinton was proved by DNA to be a perjurer who lied to fix a court case, there was abundant evidence that he was a serial abuser of women.

McAuliffe was a bagman for the Clintons, a man utterly without ethics, a total sleaze.

Yet all of these people have won elective office and are celebrated in the media and admired by huge sections of the public and, to our sorrow, the electorate.

We as conservatives instinctively try to make these people despicable when we should make them derisible. But that large chunk of the electorate does not share our moral outrage, they are only into what is cool and what is uncool. They react to what is uncool as though it were radioactive. We must make it uncool to be associated in any way with these people because we succeed in destroying the Terry McAuliffes of this world with satire and derision.

Your description, "grave animosity" between Tea Party and The Grand Old Party is well put.

I think many of us feel as we imagine some few African-Americans feel as and when they have an epiphany and come to understand that the Democrat party, contrary to its contrived image, actually despises them. As Jesse Jackson can exploit the Trayvon Martin case as he has done, not to advance the well-being of rootless black teenage boys or even any part of the African-American race, but to rabble-rouse that race with demagoguery, so will the Republican establishment exploit the patriotism and godliness of the American heartland to maintain its perch on the heights of political power.

I live here in Germany so I cannot pretend to any peculiar inside knowledge of the workings of the GOP and I am reduced to listening to talk radio to get a sense of inner reality from what is put on the air. Yet, when I hear someone like Tucker Carlson, hardly a firebreathing conservative, remark to Laura Ingraham with real bitterness in his voice that every one of those GOP insiders attending the cocktail parties inside the Beltway favor abortion and lie about their position in public, I cannot but feel like an exploited wretch on the plantation. Coincidently, Rush Limbaugh made the same remark describing the same kind of elitist party to crystallize the deep hypocrisy of the Republican elite. I was surprised at the vehemence with which Carlson criticized the establishment.

There is no question that the GOP establishment are embarrassed by believing Christians, condone abortion, approve of big government in general, and despise their base much as a carnival bear-baiter despises the animal he exploits and incites to react in public to provide him his livelihood.

The problem as you point out is the mask has now been ripped away and the whole of conservative middle America now understands that it has been exploited for generations. Worse, they are coming to understand that they and their country have been sold out. I do not concede that the elitists are animated by good motive. I believe they are opportunists and hypocrites. In other words, I discount any presentation of the GOP elite as a group which honestly believes that honest, constitutional conservatism is doomed to lose at the polls. I support this position from evidence of their stance on immigration. They cannot on the one hand claim demographics as the irresistible force which compels them to abandon conservatism and on the other hand move as they do, and as George Bush did, to open the gates and create the very demographics which they plead.

Their real sin is that they are parasites with guilty knowledge that they are trading off chunks of America for their personal enrichment. They cannot plead as liberals might that they think they are actually doing a greater good for the greater number, their rhetoric denies that. They know that they are consciously selling out America for their own personal enrichment. They know we are approaching the precipice, they know the economy is sailing onto the rocks, they know we are losing our position in the world, they know the American century is drawing to a close, they know we are losing our liberties at home, and they only collaborate in the disintegration.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres,

which indeed appear beautiful outward,

but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

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