IIRC, you ARE the Establishment. You think of the wimpy National Right to Life Committee (raking in the dough from the gullible while accomplishing zero, zip, nada, and essentially empowering the GOP-E to TALK a good game just like NRLC while accomplishing exactly nothing. You worry about feeling good rather than doing good. Haley Boss Hogg Barbour will be happy to whisper soothingly in your ear ao long as you don't upset HIS interests in taking all that Wall Street and K Street $$$$.
Ronaldus Maximus kept the RINO slime at bay. They hated him with a purple passion. They did everything but arrange mass suicide to preserve a horse's ass and embarrassment like Gerald Feckless Ford. As soon as Reagan was retired, they cheered on Bush the Elder, elected as Reagan's successor and destroyed as Reagan's betrayer.
Not that Dole was much other than the "tax collector for the welfare state" just as Jack Kemp tagged him, but why choose him as an example of a liberal Kansas excuse for a Republican when you had a perfectly positioned Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (Mrs. Howard Baker, as you may recall).
To the extent that the GOP was infested with such trash as Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Bob (and later Giddy) Dole, Kassebaum, Richard Lugar, Charles Mac Mathias, John Sherman Cooper, Howard Baker, and so many, many more, that was due to the lavish investments made for generations by Muffie's daddy and granddaddy and great granddaddy, etc., to guarantee an effective snobocracy posing as an hereditary political party, protecting hereditary class interests above all but also competing with the Demonrat left on social and, often, foreign policy issues. Their distinguishing characteristic is the habit of ignoring, attacking and keeping their jackboots on the necks of the peasants. Reagan was just too talented to fail in 1980 and 1984 and only barely lost to the incumbent imbecile and whore Gerald Ford in 1976.
Now, Mr. Kansas Activist (but for whom or for what like John Kerry in Vietnam), you also have the nerve to flub even Kansas political history in your zeal to attack Norm Lenhart. Your Kansas pro-abort feminazi US Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum married HOWARD BAKER not James Baker. Had it been James Baker, the fountain of all corrupt money of that era into Gerald Ford's GOP and his warding off Reagan by a handful of votes at the 1976 convention, Nancy would be a LOT richer today. If Bob Dole used to talk to you, why were you unaware of this basic fact?
Reagan never had a majority of the House as Republicans but, after no less than Tip O'Neill showed the Demonrat caucus their own early polls on Reagan as POTUS, he had a majority of Congress.
Mitchie McConnell is far more of a whore than Bob Dole ever dreamed of being. McConnell might better be truthful in advertising if he changed his first name to Xaviera and his middle name to Hollander and carried a portable red light, a portable mattress and a sack of quarters (to make change) wherever he goes.
Likewise, the Weeper of the House John (Hic) "Coppertone" Boehner, the soon to be departed Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and the rest of their spineless House and Senate "Leadership" ilk in DC. They make such spineless schlubs as Bob Michel, Gerald Ford, Trent Lott, and the like look positively heroic, at least by comparison. Boehner is just WORRIED that the lame stream media might (sniffle) actually (boo hoo) think (he's jealous) of just, well, CRITICIZING him. We just cannot have that. It makes him look just ineffective (WAAAAH) when he dons his kneepads: one for Wall Street and one for K Street.
Today's "GOP""leadership" would LOVE to get away with gun grabbing, baby-killing, gay everything, so long as there are yet MORE upper class tax cuts (the only issue they REALLY care about). They can't get away with it without a second round of the French Revolution complete with guillotines. Unfortunately the guillotine was created to be a relatively quick and painless method of execution, but, hey, what the heck! I can favor "supply side" as much as the next guy but it is not, never has been and never will be my reason for living.
I would not vote for Ron Paul if he were the only candidate on the ballot. I determined to keep an open mind on Rand Paul. I did, BUTTTTTT but his recent compulsion to support just about every Demonrat priority: Disarmament, congrats to Thad Cockroach, gay everything. amnesty (whether he admits it or not), Mitchie McConnell's primary effort, neo-isolationism (always a Paul family obsession even if it makes sense until we recover economically and elect an actual pro-American POTUS which includes neither Rand nor Obozo nor the Arkansas Medusa). There is plenty more but that will suffice for now.
In the GOP political context "realism" is the tried and true path to issue surrender. We are partisans not compromising spineless Golums. Face facts, you do not fight the "Establishment." If you want to reward their 150 years of issue treason and special interest boodling by supporting them whenever they buy a primary, then face it: You either ARE the Establishment or you aspire to be their subject. As Someone once said: You are either with us or against us and, if you are lukewarm, I will vomit you out of My Mouth.
I want the GOP (and pro-lifers and pro-gun folks and every other form of conservative learn to make the Establishment walk the plank and stuff their infernal $$$$ where the sun shineth not and learn to talk to, persuade and recruit a much broader coalition that includes blacks, Hispanics, Asians and every honest American willing to work for a living, keep his or her nose clean and mutually pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor (Gee, where did THAT come from?).
We do NOT need to spin our wheels forever in the vain hope of winning a State Central seat here, a Town Committee there with the unspoken assurance that we will support winning $$$$ whores and. if we beat them, they can piss on us as usual. That's all over with now.
If you are 55, you were about 17 when I was a Reagan State Chairman against that despicable disgrace Gerald Ford in 1976. Ford lost to Jimmuh Peanut (McConnell to Grimes? Cockroach to Travis Childers?) and in 1980 and 1984 Ronaldus Maximus won by record margins as the Ruling Class "GOP" and Demonrats gargled sulfuric acid for 8 years. We got our job done in electing Reagan. Did you vote for pro-abort gun-grabber ancestor of Obozocare Mitt Romney? I didn't. I wish I did not vote for McCain, Dole or Bush the Elder the second time around and Nixon in 1968.
REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!!!! whether you want to or not because actual conservatives will. Rule or ruin! Starting right now! You are either with us or against us. There is no Middle Ground any more.
Wow! 58 may never be back. And we’re not in Kansas any more.
Thanks for the rock’em sock’em. It’s time! We have all suffered fools long enough, some with credentials on their head and party proud, but bearing no resistance in sight.
Dead weight. Destination,... the curb.
Remember Mississippi
Thx, so, Rita
However you are again spouting hate and anger and not strategy.
Reagan fought Ford, then Reagan lost to Ford, then Ford lost to Carter.
However, when Reagan got the nomination, the next time around, MILLIONS of Ford loyalists voted for Reagan, BECAUSE THEY SAW THAT REAGAN WAS A CLASS ACT!
(Your behavior here says otherwise about you)
By the way, you hate filled ass full of insults and put downs:
I have done more for the prolife cause than anyone on this thread. Read my profile and get back to me you pompous ass!
Do you have the maturity to disagree with someone with out trying to destroy that person or without the need to tear that person down anyway you can think of?
You owe me an apology.