Posted on 01/01/2015 12:31:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The TEA Party divided the GOP for six years. It was destructive and a failure to negotiate much needed legislation throughout the 112th and 113th Congress. TEA Party goals are destructive rather than constructive. Congress’ poor favorability rating can be attributed directly to the party within a party which is supported by the most wealthy Americans such as the Koch brothers. In 2008 the TEA Party was making plans for a presidential bid in 2016; they will fail.
Although politicians may be extremists, the majority of Americans are more centrist. The TEA Party made a splash in 2008 and again in 2012, but it has lost favor with the majority of conservatives. The latest polls which asked the question of Republican voters who they would support in 2016, revealed an enormous amount of information. The most favored potential candidate was Mitt Romney; the second, Jeb Bush.
The GOP is comprised primarily of a group of aging white men and their wives who support their husbands without question. Romney and Bush fit the demographics completely. Third in their choice was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is a moderate.
Expected TEA Party hopefuls are Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul. In the latest polls they barely registered. This does not guarantee that a change will not occur by the middle of 2015, but the polls are a reflection of American voters’ desire to see government return to a workable entity.
In all reality, this week Jeb Bush declared his candidacy for the White House in 2016 when he resigned from two of his private positions. The fear shone bright in the eyes of fellow Floridian Marco Rubio.
Rubio’s lack of a firm stance on immigration reform and his recent proclamation condemning renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, his parent’s country of origin, already have him in the back row of possible candidates.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a TEA Party faithful and once considered a front runner, reportedly has a four percent chance of obtaining the Republican nomination.
The single possibility is Rand Paul who has recently taken more moderate positions of the critical issues which will be important in the 2016 election. However, his libertarian views may cost him support financially.
The significance of the polls is that the GOP may be able to retake control of their party in 2015. Extremists have failed to obliterate the values of the Republican Party. Voters from both sides of the aisle expect more cooperation and serious deliberation in the 114th Congress.
Throughout the past six years election results have demonstrated a vast majority of voters cast their ballots purely on political affiliation. Polls reveal that an increasing number of those who actually go to the polls on Election Day are aligning themselves with independents. Although both parties would deny it, the average voter is disenchanted with the party of their choice. Neither supports the desires and needs of the working class.
Republicans will likely have multiple candidates to choose from in 2016. The debates will likely once again be plentiful, and it may take several of them to witness the elimination of unfavorable hopefuls.
The GOP has not experienced a strong candidate since George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988. Will a ‘dark horse’ candidate emerge from the shadows?
Although there will be many hopefuls, will any of them be a viable candidate?
The few elderly Americans who remember the world before the New Deal won’t tell you about not being divided into Common Men and Economic Royalists. They won’t tell you how good it felt to start from nothing and become successful by dint of one’s own hard work. They will tell you about bread lines, soup lines, Hoovervilles, and being sent out on the road by parents who could no longer afford to feed them. They’ll tell you about “railroad bulls” who beat them senseless and police who prevented them from crossing a state line because the people on the other side of that line couldn’t take care of their own. They’ll tell you about the disappearance of money. In 1988, an elderly black lady who remembered it all, defined the situation very simply: “Back then, you could buy a whole barrel of flour for twenty-five cents. But where were you going to find that quarter?!” There are few good memories from the survivors of the days before the New Deal.
Rush Limbaugh derides them as “low information voters”, but these people are merely average Americans. They dislike politics and avoid it because they consider it a dirty business, which it is. They pay their taxes, go to work, go to church, raise their children and expect something in return from the government for those taxes they pay. They elect Democrats to preserve and expand their entitlements, and when the Democrats bite off more than they can chew, they elect Republicans to fix the mess.
When they send people to Congress, they don’t care about ideology. They want the people they elect to be problem solvers, and if that means reaching across the aisle and compromising their principles, so be it. They don’t necessarily want smaller government, they want more effective government. Most importantly, they don’t want anything to get in the way of their entitlements, particularly when the economy is in a state of depression.
In late 1995, Bill Clinton positioned Newt Gingrich to stand between the American people and their government checks in a highly publicized government shutdown. The result was the end of Gingrich’s revolution after barely one year, followed by Clinton’s cracking the whip over the “militia” Republicans elected in 1994, turning them into good, reliable purveyors of pork.
The average American voter elected Tea Party candidates to Congress to fix the problem, not shut down the government or default on the nation’s debt, which was the alternative when Obama positioned the Tea Party to stand between the people and their entitlements. The potential default incident in the summer of 2011 and the government shutdown of late 2013 turned the people against the Tea Party. The charge against the Tea Party is that they want to “burn down the house”, when the people merely want the house patched.
The key to this is the New Deal paradigm. As long as it survives, the current state of affairs will not change. An intransigent ideologue of a president will stand firm and double down when challenged, forcing Congress to bend to his will to keep the game going.
The key to the New Deal paradigm is the fact that US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and the dollar is the only pool of capital deep enough to handle the trillions of dollars of international transactions that trade daily. Until that ends, this nation can abuse that currency at will and force its malfeasance on the rest of the world. As Nixon’s Treasury Secretary, John Connally, said in 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window to foreign payments, “They’re our deficits, but they’re your problem.” This is what permits Americans to live beyond their means and enjoy that exhilarating sense of instant gratification, a vice whose tentacles extend far beyond the world of money into the world of simple everyday morality.
As long as the New Deal paradigm reigns, the Democrats and Republicans will fight over who controls the federal faucet and how that faucet distributes largesse to their favored constituents. It is not in the interest of either party to shut down the federal faucet. Because of this, it is only when the faucet dries up – because there is a sovereign debt default – that there will be nothing more to fight over. When that day comes and the rest of the world converts to some kind of international currency standard, it’s game over and lights out for the American fiat dollar and the New Deal.
On that fateful day, there will only be two paradigms left for America’s future: the Tea Party movement, based on the American Revolution; or the Occupy Wall Street movement, based on the French Revolution. The Democratic and Republican parties, the great enablers and profiteers of the New Deal, will be consigned to the ash heap of history.
Where was the barf alert? The notion that the popular attempt to recall the GOP to its proper calling as the party of small government is divisive is absurd.
“James Turnage”
http://thepublicslate.com/2014/12/tea-party-plans-for-2016-will-fail/
“James Turnage is currently a writer and editor for The Public Slate, a subsidiary of the Guardian Liberty Voice. He is also a novelist who is in the process of publishing his fourth effort. His experience includes performing the responsibilities of a Managing Editor, reporter, columnist, and independent contributor. Contributions to sports publications such as The Penalty Flag and Sports Spartan complete his resume.”
“Guardian Liberty Voice”
http://guardianlv.com/about-us/
“The Guardian Liberty Voice was founded by DiMarkco Chandler less than two years ago and 2014 will surely be a breakthrough year for the fast-growing online media organization. More than just another media company, Liberty Voice has set itself apart in two significant ways: Firstly, with no politically biased editorial policy, the site lives up to its Boldly Inclusive tag-line by publishing – alongside hard news stories – a wide variety of editorial pieces that span the political and philosophical spectrum; secondly, the publication recruits and develops its growing cadre of citizen journalists through its own intense and selective training program, known as “Boot Camp.”
“DiMarkco Chandler”
https://www.google.com/search?q=DiMarkco+Chandler&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Where you dropped on your head as a small child? I hope getting old doesn’t mean you get fuzzy on what a Patriot is. You know like there is no right or left or freedom just lets all be brothers and good friends. You kind of slip into a RED haze and slowly turn into a Communist. Both the American party’s are only different in name not mission.
Reads like something from an eighth-grader.
I would like to give this writer’s home to an illegal.
What this undoubtedly means is that the writer saw a poll in which Cruz got 4% support. As I said, the whole thing sounds like something from an eighth-grader.
The American left, Democrats and their lap dog Republicans, are frightened by the Tea Party and conservatives. No one else stands between them and their agenda to transform America into a multicultural dystopia.
You know, if this brilliant columnist had only illuminated me about all these facts, say, as soon a Cruz hit the scene, I wouldn’t have thrown any of my weight into it.
Oh, well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I’m sticking with the Tea Party crowd.
Somehow, I believe this author knows he’s lying and the (Republican?) voters that eat this crap up don’t even recognize how condescendingly he addresses them.
The TEA Party divided the GOP for six years, because the GOP were kissing rat a## and the people spoke out. November we gave them the house and senate and before the holiday they funded obama’s amnesty and crap care, once again they gave us all the finger.
Ted Cruz IS what America voted for in this last election. His stand on the issues mirror our own.
The sad part is this moron firmly believes what he wrote, and so do a growing number of voters.
The Conservative members of our government must work to change the mind set of LIVs that progressives have created.
Excellent explanation. Sad it will take the violence and hardship that will come with the dissolution of today’s two parties.
The American people are centrist,that’s why they elect Marxists like Obama and can’t wait to elect another one in the Hildabeast.
I don’t know who can be more American than Tea Party people,I guess they believe in that dried up document called the constitution,that makes them extremists they should just shut up and go away
It’s funny these liberals never write about the Communist Party dividing the DemocRATS. I guess that says a lot about the “DemocRATS”. The more radical and extreme the ‘RAT party gets, the more their freeloading voter base loves them.
“The GOP is comprised primarily of a group of aging white men and their wives who support their husbands without question.”
Wow, I had no idea there so many of us that we could take over the Senate all by ourselves!
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