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GDIAF NRSC
redstate.com ^ | 9/19/14 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 09/19/2014 5:28:48 AM PDT by cotton1706

Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove sounded the alarm. Republicans are not doing as well as they should given the election dynamic. According to Rove, “Republican candidates and groups must step up if they are to substantially reduce that gap . . . . [R]educing the Democratic cash advantage will tip the needle in the GOP’s direction. That will only happen if Republicans open their wallets to candidates whom they may have never met, and, if they live in a battleground state, they clear their calendars to volunteer to identify and get out the vote.”

A few hours later, via the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s email list, Haley Barbour sent out a pitch for donations.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee can GDIAF, hell fire hopefully. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

The NRSC and its establishment hacks, consultants, and outside groups have spent the better part of year attacking the ethics of outside conservative groups, attacking conservative activists as racists and bigots, attacking vendors who dare help conservative groups and anti-establishment candidates, and doing everything they can to defend their status quo in an incumbent protection racket.

And now they find themselves short of funds in the general election. No kidding. Screw you all. I will not give you one damn penny.

I would vastly prefer a Republican majority to a Democratic majority, but I will laugh myself silly if the GOP loses because of guys like Pat Roberts. The Republican establishment has had such a vested interest in protecting their incumbents that they would rather lose and preserve incumbency than win with new faces.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections

1 posted on 09/19/2014 5:28:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

I’ll vote for conservatives on the ballot and skip the rest.

Those being skipped include my GOP-e Senator and Congressman.


2 posted on 09/19/2014 5:32:24 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Show me the man and I will find the crime. - Lavrenti Beria)
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To: cotton1706

I will open my wallet to the max for selected candidates but not one copper plated zink penny for the RNC or State Republican party.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 5:34:33 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: peyton randolph

Perhaps if poor Haley and Mitch the bitch from Kentucky didn’t spend all their cash buying votes in Mississippi and punching their base in the face this wouldn’t have happened.

KARMA boys, KARMA.


4 posted on 09/19/2014 5:37:10 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: peyton randolph

5 posted on 09/19/2014 5:37:15 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: cotton1706

Interesting that the only time the GOPe talks to folks like me or even admit that we exist is when they want our money and vote.
I can guarandamntee that win, lose or draw on November 5, every one of them will try their best to ignore and shut us up for another 2 years.


6 posted on 09/19/2014 5:38:20 AM PDT by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
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To: cotton1706
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.

In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.

Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.

As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.

Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?

Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?

Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?

You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?

The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.

A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.

Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.

Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.

Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.

If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.

And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.

If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.

To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.

And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.

The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.

Yes, having Harry Reid continue as speaker is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.

And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame that they have unleashed on our country for the last five years.

America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?

You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?

America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.

Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.

But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to a recent panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.

So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.

Think about it.

7 posted on 09/19/2014 5:40:14 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: cotton1706
So they same week that boehner & mitch the bitch sign on to fulling funding obamacare they petition the base for more funds?

Are they that retarded?

Like Rush said yeaterday; what does the GOP stand for other than wanting to get first in line at the pig trough?

Screw them.

8 posted on 09/19/2014 5:45:58 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Maceman
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.

No.. he sure won't. McConnell is the personification of the hanger-on who just won't go away when that going-away time has long passed.

9 posted on 09/19/2014 5:56:44 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: cotton1706

GDIAF.


10 posted on 09/19/2014 6:33:05 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: MortMan; cotton1706

That should have been a question...

GDIAF?


11 posted on 09/19/2014 7:15:08 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: cotton1706

I couldn’t say it better myself.


12 posted on 09/19/2014 7:28:42 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: MortMan

GDIAF = Go Die In A Fire


13 posted on 09/19/2014 7:30:04 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Great graphic!


14 posted on 09/19/2014 7:39:43 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: cotton1706

Piss on yer base, reap the loss.


15 posted on 09/19/2014 8:31:11 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: cotton1706

Well, quit forcing liberal Republican LOSERS on conservatives and you might start winning again. As is, your collection of mealy-mouthed, forked-tongued, yellow bellied, watery-boweled, squitters of candidates, is no wonder that they are in the toilet.

Karl Rove, back NO candidate that doesn’t agree to the following:

1) America and Americans FIRST. Not multinational corporations, the UN, the G-8, the Trilateral Commission, CSIS, Brookings, and the Socialist International. No nothing not!

2) Recognize that the Democrats, “progressives”, socialists, national socialists, communists and Islam are the ENEMIES of America. Quit trying to reach out to Nazis in hopes they will meet you halfway, and only kill HALF the Jews and take HALF of Europe. You guys HAVE to make a stand for what is right. Quit bargaining with Satan.

3) Democrats treat Republicans like CRAP, then cream puffs like McConnell, TIME AND AGAIN, say that when they are back in power they will be extra nice to Democrats. CUT IT OUT!! This is a fight, not damn dancing lessons in tutus.

4) CLOSE THE DAMNED BORDERS!!!!! Get it through your heads that without borders, America has no effective sovereignty. Put up machine gun towers if you have to, but NO MORE DAMNED ILLEGAL ALIENS!

5) Tear down the cursed wall of more than a hundred years of “progressivism”. Tear down FDR’s New Deal. Tear down JFK’s Camelot. Tear Down LBJ’s “Great Society”. And start indicting, convicting, and imprisoning bureaucrats who think they are Mandarins who rule over all. They have broken the law, now they retire in prison.

Do you UNDERSTAND this message, Karl Rove?

If you want to win elections, run candidates who “get it”, or just don’t bother. Otherwise you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. If you can’t handle it, then Move to Belgium or something, because you don’t belong here.


16 posted on 09/19/2014 9:03:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

[Standing ovation]


17 posted on 09/19/2014 9:46:25 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: cotton1706
Well, Karl, you're the one whose PAC and establishment GOPee elite Republicans who poisoned the water hole by pulling out all the stops to defend incumbents in the primaries, recruited Democrats to help defeat conservatives in primaries, and funded attack ads against conservative Republicans to assure your precious incumbent was on the ballot.

Now, suddenly and inexplicably, Karl Rove and his ilk are finding the NRSC and other GOPee coffers aren't brimming with cash? Like DUH, dude. For the man on Fox News that's touted as a political genius, Rove isn't acting really bright. Hey, Karl, here's my rigid digit salute to you and all your smart GOPee Establishment elite buddies.

18 posted on 09/20/2014 12:49:41 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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